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Common ragweed is a very competitive weed and can produce yield losses in soybeans as high as 30 percent. Control with night tillage reduces emergence by around 45 percent. Small grains in rotation will also suppress common ragweed if they are overseeded with clover. Otherwise, the ragweed will grow and mature and produce seeds in the small ...
Ragweed pollen can remain airborne for days and travel great distances, and can even be carried 300–400 miles (500–600 km) out to sea. [12] Ragweeds native to the Americas have been introduced to Europe starting in the nineteenth century and especially during World War I , and have spread rapidly since the 1950s. [ 15 ]
Widespread seed dispersal occurs when its spiny burs fall off the plant and are carried to new habitat by people, animals, machinery, or flowing water. The plant is destructive to native and crop plants because it easily outcompetes them for light. [5] Herbicide resistant giant ragweed populations were first identified in the late 1990s. [10]
Ambrosia deltoidea is a North American species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae known by the common names triangle bur ragweed, triangle bursage, and triangleleaf bursage. [ 3 ] Distribution and habitat
Ambrosia salsola, [3] commonly called cheesebush, winged ragweed, burrobush, [4] white burrobrush, [citation needed] and desert pearl, [citation needed] is a species of perennial shrub in the family Asteraceae native to deserts of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico.
Ambrosia ambrosioides, also known as canyon ragweed or chicura, is a ragweed found in the deserts of northern Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Chihuahua, Durango, Sonora), Arizona, and California (Ventura + San Diego Counties).
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Ambrosia chamissonis is a species of ragweed known by the common names silver burr ragweed, silver beachweed and (silver) beach bur(r). [ 3 ] It is known from most of the coastline of western North America from Alaska to Baja California , where it is a resident of beaches and other sandy coastal habitats.