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Echium plantagineum, commonly known as purple viper's-bugloss [1], Paterson's curse or Salvation Jane, is a species of the genus Echium native to western and southern Europe (from southern England south to Iberia and east to the Crimea), northern Africa, and southwestern Asia (east to Georgia).
Locoweed (also crazyweed and loco) is a common name in North America for any plant that produces swainsonine, an alkaloid harmful to livestock.Worldwide, swainsonine is produced by a small number of species, most of them in three genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae: Oxytropis and Astragalus in North America, [1] and Swainsona in Australia.
A noxious weed, harmful weed or injurious weed is a weed that has been designated by an agricultural or other governing authority as a plant that is harmful to agricultural or horticultural crops, natural habitats or ecosystems, or humans or livestock. Most noxious weeds have been introduced into an ecosystem by ignorance, mismanagement, or ...
The largest producer of fresh eggs in the U.S. said Tuesday it had temporarily halted production at a Texas plant after bird flu was found in chickens, and officials said the virus had also been ...
Common names include Santa-Maria, [2] Santa Maria feverfew, [3] whitetop weed, [4] and famine weed. [5] In India, it is locally known as carrot grass, congress grass [6] or gajar ghas or dhanura. [7] It is a common invasive species [8] in India, [9] Australia, and parts of Africa. [5] Pollen grains of Parthenium hysterophorus
The type of weed will clue you in on when to apply weed killer to the lawn. ... Weed killers or herbicides are made with chemicals that can be harmful to people, wildlife, and the environment ...
Eggs sold at Costco that may be contaminated with salmonella are being recalled. The recall covers Kirkland Signature Organic Pasture Raised 24-Count Eggs and has been upgraded to Class I.
In 2014, North Dakota State University's "ND Weed Control Guide" selected Amaranthus palmeri, as "weed-of-the-year" to raise awareness about its "potentially devastating impact." [ 19 ] : 5 In 2015, Palmer amaranth was chosen as "weed-of-the-year" for the second year in a row as a "proactive approach to prevent Palmer amaranth establishment in ...