. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. OAPPARIDAOEAE (CAPMB FAMILY) 199 An unpleasant weed, with fetid odor and acrid juices, the whole plant glandular and clammy-hairy, even to its pods. Stem six inches to two feet tall, with slender as- cending branches. Leaves alternate, dark green, with three oblong leaflets, tapering to each end, on slender petioles about as long as the central blade. Flowers in the upper axils, forming long, leafy,
. A manual of weeds : with descriptions of all the most pernicious and troublesome plants in the United States and Canada, their habits of growth and distribution, with methods of control . Weeds. OAPPARIDAOEAE (CAPMB FAMILY) 199 An unpleasant weed, with fetid odor and acrid juices, the whole plant glandular and clammy-hairy, even to its pods. Stem six inches to two feet tall, with slender as- cending branches. Leaves alternate, dark green, with three oblong leaflets, tapering to each end, on slender petioles about as long as the central blade. Flowers in the upper axils, forming long, leafy, terminal racemes; corolla of four yellowish white or pinkish petals, notched at the outer edge, with a tassel of many unequal pinkish purple stamens in the center : four purplish pointed sepals, soon falling away. Capsule one to nearly two inches long, erect on spreading pedicels, one-celled, thin, rough, net-veined, crammed with rough, brown seeds. (Fig. 141.) Means of control. Fig. 141. — Clammy- weed (Polanisia graveo- lans). xj. Close cutting or pulling before the formation of seed. PINK CLEOME Cledme serrulata, Pursh. Other English names: Rocky Mountain Bee-plant, Stinking Clover, Stinkweed. Native. Annual. Propagates by seeds. Time of bloom: July to September. Seed-time: Late August to November. Range: Minnesota, Iowa, and Missouri, westward to the Rocky Mountains, New Mexico, and Arizona; also in Manitoba and the Northwest Territory. Habitat: Dry upland prairies and hillsides, waste places. The foliage of this plant has a very unpleasant odor, which causes it to be rejected by grazing cattle; but the blossoms yield much nectar, which the bees turn into clear honey of fine flavor; there- fore bee keepers are its friends, for it blooms at a time when bee- pasture is not so very Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not pe
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