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| | Remediation Of Polluted Soils With Plants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29) |
 | | The best plants should have a high uptake, and the ability to grow in contaminated soils. |
 | | Eight plants that grow well in fields polluted with heavy metals are: Fireweed (Crassocephalum crepidioides (Benth.) S. Moore), Black nightshade (Solanum nigrum L.), sword fern, Zoysia grass (Zoysia tenuifolia Willd.), rape (Brassica campestris L.), green amaranth (Amaranthus viridus L.), red amaranth (Amaranthus caudatus L.), and edible amaranth (Amaranthusmangostanus L.). |
 | | These eight plants were studied to see how much heavy metal they removed from polluted soil, when they were grown from seed in polluted fields. |
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