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Ragweeds (Ambrosia spp.)—The Hay Fever Weeds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 June 2017

Larry W. Mitich
Larry W. Mitich*
Affiliation:
Dep. Vegetable Crops, Univ. California. Davis, CA 95616
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Extract

“Wither'd hogs … on ragweed nags, They skim the muirs [moors].” Address to the Diel, 1785, Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759–1796).

Type
The Intriguing World of Weeds
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 10 , Issue 1 , March 1996 , pp. 236 - 240
Copyright
Copyright © 1996 by the Weed Science Society of America 

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