Weeds: Fully Illustrated - Authoritative - Easy-to-Use

This handy identification guide to the plants that cause billions of dollars annually in crop loss and control measures include information on:

-The harm that weeds cause

-Benefits from weeds

-Major weed habitats

Accurate full-color illustrations and descriptive text identify the principal weeds and weed groups that invade lawns, gardens, fields. and roadsides. Range maps show distribution within the United States.

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Weeds: Fully Illustrated - Authoritative - Easy-to-Use

This handy identification guide to the plants that cause billions of dollars annually in crop loss and control measures include information on:

-The harm that weeds cause

-Benefits from weeds

-Major weed habitats

Accurate full-color illustrations and descriptive text identify the principal weeds and weed groups that invade lawns, gardens, fields. and roadsides. Range maps show distribution within the United States.

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Weeds: Fully Illustrated - Authoritative - Easy-to-Use

Weeds: Fully Illustrated - Authoritative - Easy-to-Use

Weeds: Fully Illustrated - Authoritative - Easy-to-Use

Weeds: Fully Illustrated - Authoritative - Easy-to-Use

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Overview

This handy identification guide to the plants that cause billions of dollars annually in crop loss and control measures include information on:

-The harm that weeds cause

-Benefits from weeds

-Major weed habitats

Accurate full-color illustrations and descriptive text identify the principal weeds and weed groups that invade lawns, gardens, fields. and roadsides. Range maps show distribution within the United States.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781582381602
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 04/14/2001
Series: A Golden Guide from St. Martin's Press Series
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 160
Sales rank: 182,227
Product dimensions: 4.02(w) x 5.60(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

Golden Guides first appeared in 1949 and quickly established themselves as authorities on subjects from Natural History to Science. Relaunched in 2000, Golden Guides from St. Martin's Press feature modern, new covers as part of a multi-year, million-dollar program to revise, update, and expand the complete line of guides for a new generation of students.

Table of Contents

What Are Weeds?4
Definition, adaptability and capacity to reproduce
The Harm Weeds Cause6
Cost to farmers
Additional losses in control of lawn and garden pests, respiratory ailments
Interference with waterways and outdoor recreation
Benefits From Weeds8
The value of weeds in soil conservation
For food, medicine, and drugs
In diets of songbirds, gamebirds, and other wildlife
Major Weed Habitats9
Fields and roadsides
Lawns and gardens
Marsh and aquatic areas
Plan Of The Book10
Purpose, plan of presentation of material, and explanation of maps
Common Weeds Of The United States11
145 pages of illustrations, descriptions and maps
More Information158
Index159
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