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Shepherd's-purse, Capsella bursa-pastoris (L.) Medic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Michael S. Defelice
Michael S. Defelice*
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… on finding a root of shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) open a seed-vessel. If the seed is yellow you will be rich, but if green you will be poor.

Yorkshire Folklore, W.M.E. Fowler, 1909 (Vickery 1995)

Type
Intriguing World of Weeds
Information
Weed Technology , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , December 2001 , pp. 892 - 895
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Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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No. 73 of the series “Intriguing World of Weeds.”

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