WEEDS OF MEADOWS AND PASTURES 



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best way of treating it generally is to plow and plant with 

 cultivated crops for a time. 



In the states bordering on the Gulf of Mexico another 

 species of Wild Carrot is very troublesome. It is called 

 the Small Carrot. It is a biennial, occurring in all sorts 

 of situations to which the seeds may be carried by wind or 

 animals. 



OTHER HERBACEOUS WEEDS 



Two members of the Plantain family are often trouble- 

 some in meadows and pastures. The Western or Large- 

 bracted Plantain ap- 

 pears to have been 

 originally native to 

 the Mississippi Val- 

 ley, but has recently 

 become very gener- 

 ally distributed in 

 grass and clover 

 seed. It is com- 

 monly classed as 

 a winter annual, 

 though it may also 

 develop from seeds 

 scattered in spring. 

 It differs from the 

 other plantains in 

 its plume-like flower 

 heads, due to a large 



bract projecting MILKWEED SEEDS 



from beneath each 



tiny floret on the spike. The leaves are short and narrow 

 so that the plants do not become conspicuous until the 



