Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . he character oftheir flower. Wild sun flowers should be cut during their flowering season,and composted to guard against trouble from their multiplication. 93. Wing-stein. Stick-weed. (P.) Actinomeris alternifolia, (L.),DC. This tall branching weed with its stem and branches wingedupon the angles, saw-toothed, feather-veined leaves, numerous yellow daisy-likeflowers, and globes of winged seed, threat-ens to become a fearful pest along our greaterriver bottoms. An average plant produces212 ball-like heads each havin
Your weeds and your neighbor's : part 3 illustrated descriptive list of weeds . he character oftheir flower. Wild sun flowers should be cut during their flowering season,and composted to guard against trouble from their multiplication. 93. Wing-stein. Stick-weed. (P.) Actinomeris alternifolia, (L.),DC. This tall branching weed with its stem and branches wingedupon the angles, saw-toothed, feather-veined leaves, numerous yellow daisy-likeflowers, and globes of winged seed, threat-ens to become a fearful pest along our greaterriver bottoms. An average plant produces212 ball-like heads each having an averageof forty seeds, giving a yield of 8,480 seedsto the plant. Mr. J. W. Miller, of Cabell, says ofthis weed : Our worst weed here on goodground is the Stick Weed, which growsabout 4 to 6 feet high, has yellow blossoms,in Fall. It only grows in some parts of ourcounty. When it gets a start, the groundhas to be broken, or the weeds grubbed stock will eat it. I have known pasture wing-stem. land to be cut over for years without killing or even thinning them 253 • This weed should be grubbed out and composted before theflowers have been opened, as the younger ones often mature theirseed while later ones are blooming. This will probably accountfor the lack of success mentioned in the letter above. 94. Wild Coreopsis. (P.) Coreopsis sp. Several species of these plants, mostly quite similar to thelast except that their flowers are more like those of the wild sun-flower, escape from open woods and shrubby hillsides to our drierpasture lands, where they threaten to become more or less obnoxi-ous to the farmer. If cut and dealt with as other trash accordingto the directions given on page 125 of Part 1 of this bulletin, theycan not fail to be subdued. 95. Stick-tigiits. Beggars Ticks. Pitchforks. (A.) Bidens /rondosa, L. Who of our farmers are not acquainted with the small, flat,two-tined seeds of this miserable weed, that sticks to their cloth-ing and the hair of
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