. 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. 202 CSASSULAC'EAE {ORPINE FAMILY) COMMON OPINE OR LIVE-FOREVER Sedum purpiireum, Tauseh. {Sedum. Telhphium, L.) Other English names: Live-long, Aaron's Rod, Purse Plant, Pud- ding-bags. Introduced. Perennial. Propagates by seeds, by tubers, and by rooting at the joints. Time of bloom: June to September. Seed-time: August to October. Range: Quebec to Ontario and Michigan, southward to Maryland. Habita
. 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. 202 CSASSULAC'EAE {ORPINE FAMILY) COMMON OPINE OR LIVE-FOREVER Sedum purpiireum, Tauseh. {Sedum. Telhphium, L.) Other English names: Live-long, Aaron's Rod, Purse Plant, Pud- ding-bags. Introduced. Perennial. Propagates by seeds, by tubers, and by rooting at the joints. Time of bloom: June to September. Seed-time: August to October. Range: Quebec to Ontario and Michigan, southward to Maryland. Habitat: Fields, roadsides, waste places. An escape from gardens, and a most pernicious weed when out of bounds. The tuberous, fleshy, white roots are attached to the stems by small necks, and if even a very little one is broken off it sprouts a stalk and con- tinues to thrive; broken stalks become slips, which put forth roots and form new plants. Stem six inches to two feet in height, round, stout, smooth, erect, very leafy, often purplish. Leaves alternate, long obovate or the upper ones oval, thick, light green, bluntly toothed, sessile or the lowermost with petioles. By careful lateral pressure with the finger-tips the two surfaces of a leaf may be separated, making a " purse," or " ; Flowers purple, in a dense, compound cyme at the summit of the stalk; each blossom about a half-inch broad, with five petals, rather thick, ovate, acute, twice as long as the sepals; sta- mens ten; carpels five, tipped with a per- sistent style, very short. Seeds small, seldom produced, the plant spreading almost entirely by its tuberous rootstocks. (Fig. 144.) Fig. 144. —Com- Mear, i of control mon Orpine or Live- means °J control forever {Sedum pur- Deep cutting in midsummer, salt or carbolic purmm). acid being applied to the shorn surfaces. Sheep will graze the plants down, particularly if strewn with a little salt. There is a fungous disease that attacks and ki
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