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POLYGONUM MUHLENBERGII 
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WAMP SMARTWEED (Polygonum Muhlenbergii)—In wet or heavy 
moist soils this weed is apt to be a persistent pest. It has heavy tough 

underground stems that may extend laterally five or more feet in one season. 
Usually the soil is so moist that cultivation does not loosen the wet soil from 
the nodal roots so that a tillage operation only sets it back a few days. Be- 
cause it is so difficult to eradicate it is also called Devils’s Shoestring. It is 
apt to be found in fields reclaimed from swamps and in gumbo type of soil, 
where it may grow so thickly as to crowd out worthwhile plants. On the 
higher land it rarely blooms, but in water or mud it does. The flowers are 
pink and grow in spikes at the ends of the branches. The leaves are covered 
with closely lying hairs. In wet soil it can be crowded out by Reed Canary 
Grass in about three years if a good stand of the grass is secured. Where the 
soil can be tilled, the horizontal stems should be gathered up and removed at 
plowing time and an intertilled crop planted in. Cultivation and hoeing can 
complete the job if well done. 

