

Common pokeweed (Phytolacca Americana L.)Ĭommon Pokeweed ( Phytolacca Americana L.) (Interestingly, it also lists plant viruses that each weed could introduce into your garden and which may be harmful to other plants.)Īs we continue to pull weeds from our gardens, we thought you might like a primer on 10 of the most common types that might be appearing in yours.
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It covers roughly 500 species of weeds, and includes color photos showing the majority of them at stages from seed to flower. Weeds of North America was published in 2014 by the University of Chicago Press. At nearly 400 pages, it offers color photos of 299 weeds at various stages of their lifecycles – starting at the seedling stage. Weeds of the Northeast was published in 1997 by Cornell University Press. DiTomaso, and Weeds of North America by Richard Dickinson and France Royer.īoth are indispensable guides to the pesky weeds that gardeners in North America regularly come upon in beds, borders, meadows and woodlands.

While many of you undoubtedly spent summer engrossed in the latest New York Times bestselling beach reads, around here, the books we can’t put down are Weeds of the Northeast by Richard H.
