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What's That Weed? (September 2021 EcoQuest Guide)

This guide will help with identification of common weeds included in the September 2021 EcoQuest.

For this EcoQuest we’re looking at common weeds you may be seeing more of lately, thanks to the abundance of rain we’ve had this monsoon season! What we consider weeds can actually be ...more ↓

Erect spiderling 1
Boerhavia erecta
fivewing spiderling 2
Boerhavia intermedia
fringed amaranth 3
Amaranthus fimbriatus
woolly tidestromia 4
Tidestromia lanuginosa
scarlet spiderling 5
Boerhavia coccinea
Common purslane 6
Portulaca oleracea
Palmer's amaranth 7
Amaranthus palmeri
warty caltrop 8
Kallstroemia parviflora
desert horse purslane 9
Trianthema portulacastrum
puncture vine 10
Tribulus terrestris

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