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  Pineapple Weed information page   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A common annual weed of rough ground, wastelands and roadsides, growing to between 5cm (2in) and 40cm (16in) depending on soil conditions.
Dark green leaves, basal leaves are rosette, upper leaves alternate, hairless and divided, each segment being a narrow strip, smelling strongly of pineapple when crushed.
Pineapple Weed has been used as decoction for greying hair, an infusion for disorders of the stomach, a sedative and externally as an antiseptic.
www.brickfieldspark.org /data/pineappleweed.htm   (193 words)

  
 WeedAlert.com Weed Listing (Pineapple Weed)
Pineapple weed originated in the west, but is now found throughout the United States.
Being a summer annual, a preemergent herbicide application may prevent pineapple weed from germinating.
Make your postemergent herbicide application to pineapple weed that is actively growing and in the rosette to flower stage of growth.
www.weedalert.com /weed_pages/wa_pineapple_weed.htm   (123 words)

  
 Pineapple-weed
Pineapple-weed is primarily a weed of landscapes, nurseries, and turfgrass, but also occurs in compacted areas like gravel roads or walkways.
Individual leaves are arranged alternately along the stem and are from 1/2 to 2 inches long.
Pineapple-weed may be confused with young Mayweed Chamomile (Anthemis cotula) or Dogfennel (Eupatorium capillifolium) seedlings, however neither of these species emits a pineapple-like odor when crushed.
www.ppws.vt.edu /scott/weed_id/matmt.htm   (167 words)

  
 Pineapple weed
Occurs primarily in the eastern third of Kansas, but can be observed scattered to the west.
A weedy species that exhibits a faint pineapple scent.
Pineapple weed is not generally grazed by livestock.
www.lib.ksu.edu /wildflower/pineapple.html   (126 words)

  
 mayweed pineapple weed email   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pineapple weed is an annual common throughout much of the U.S, though it is native to the Pacific Northwest.
Pineapple weed grows in the poorest and most compact of soils.
Pineapple weed is reportedly resistant to triazine herbicides.
oregonstate.edu /dept/nursery-weeds/email_pubs/mayweed_pineapple/mayweed_pineapple_weed_email.html   (480 words)

  
 Wild Rose College and Wholistic Clinic
Pineapple weed is an annual, 10 - 40 cm tall with a non-rayed composite flower head.
Pineapple looks more like commercial chamomile in a package when all of its white rays have dried up and fallen off.
The Dena ina K et una boiled pineapple weed and gave it to a mother after birth, believing it helped to bring in good healthy milk.
www.wrc.net /wrcnet_content/herbalresources/herbwalk/herbwalk.aspx?hwid=40   (290 words)

  
 Article - Pineapple weed by Arthur Lee Jacobson
Overall, Pineapple weed is a miniature, bushy weed, dark and pliable.
But in Pineapple weed we have one that grew along the Pacific coast exclusively, but now is a transplanted weed elsewhere in North America, throughout Europe, and other regions too.
Usually Pineapple weeds are so despicably dusty and runtish that none of us in our right minds would consider eating them.
www.arthurleej.com /a-pineapple.html   (501 words)

  
 Weeds - Pineapple Weed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
This is an annual weed, reproducing by seeds.
The leaves are alternate, hairless, very finely divided, and pineapple scented when crushed.
The seeds are olive or brown in colour, 1.0 x 0.3 mm in size, and one per flower.
www.umanitoba.ca /afs/plant_science/weeds/fab39s00.html   (122 words)

  
 Nearctica - Eastern Wildflowers - Asteraceae - Pineapple Weed (Matricaria discoidea)
Habitat: Pineapple Weed is a weed of disturbed habitats such as fields, roadsides, and empty lots.
Pineapple Weed might also be confused with some species of Senecio lacking rays.
In contrast the disk of Pineapple Weed is smooth and rounded.
www.nearctica.com /flowers/composit/m_zgen/Mdisco.htm   (127 words)

  
 Top Tastes
When I was a child, pineapple seemed a gourmet treat the rare times Mother served it.
Pictures of the pineapple fruit and plant have been found on old pottery of the Inca Indians.
If they placed pineapples or pineapple tops near the door of their hut, it meant that strangers to the village were welcome.
www.toptastes.com /features/july02/pineapple.htm   (466 words)

  
 anthemis cotula vs matricaria matricarioidies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
When plants are small, MC and pineapple weed look very similar.
Pineapple weed looks very similar to MC at a young age.
Pineapple weed usually grows up to 8 inches tall, but much wider.
oregonstate.edu /dept/nursery-weeds/feature_articles/mayweed_pineapple/anthemis_cotula_vs_matricaria_matricarioidies.html   (135 words)

  
 Garden
A weed may be undesirable due to the allergies caused by its pollen.
Weeds are designated as three types, according to their origin: obligate weeds, facultative weeds, and weedy forms of crop plants.
Weed seedlings are very vulnerable to drying out and to burying at this stage, and by doing an effective job of blind cultivation, you can achieve the biggest possible crop/weed size differential from the start.
www.hkrl.com /Weeds.html   (6341 words)

  
 BC Outdoor Guide - PINEAPPLE WEED
- the common name is derived from the pineapple scent that is emitted from the crushed leaves and flowers
- this leafy stemmed annual of the sunflower family has a distinct pineapple scent and can grow from 5 to 30cm.
- when crushed, the flowers and leaves emit a pineapple smell
www.bcadventure.com /adventure/wilderness/wildflowers/pine.htm   (122 words)

  
 Pineapple Weed - Colorado Mountain Wildflowers - Denver Plants
Pineapple Weed - Colorado Mountain Wildflowers - Denver Plants
Pineapple Weed is really more of a weed than a wildflower.
When the plants are rubbed between the hands Pineapple Weed gives off a distinct pineapple odor.
www.denverplants.com /wflwr/html/matri_mat.htm   (36 words)

  
 Herbicide Resistant Weeds   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Pineapple-weed (Matricaria matricarioides) is a dicot weed in the Asteraceae family.
In United Kingdom this weed first evolved resistance to Group C1/5 herbicides in 1989 and infests orchards.
The Herbicide Resistance Action Committee, the Weed Science Society of America, and weed scientists in United Kingdom have been instrumental in providing you this information.
www.weedscience.org /Case/Case.asp?ResistID=367   (376 words)

  
 Comp12.html   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Pineapple Weed, Matricaria discoidea is a ubiquitous little weed commonly found usually on disturbed ground.
Our plant is aromatic--as are many of the Asteraceae--the derivation of the common name "pineapple weed." The odor is not really pineapple-like, but you get the idea.
The latter presumably was why he added the otherwise unremarkable pineapple weed to his collection of dried plants.
www.larkspurbooks.com /Comp12.html   (483 words)

  
 Bath herbs by Cynthia Andal Issue #86
The visceral pleasure to be gained from drinking wild herbal teas that you have harvested yourself pales in comparison to lying in a steaming tub, scented with rose petal and pineapple weed.
Perhaps Yarrow/Strawberry leaf is evocative of a sunshine meadow or Rose petal/Pineapple weed is the height in luxury.
Taking a bath with it is the same as drinking a cup of pineapple weed tea.
www.backwoodshome.com /articles2/andal86.html   (865 words)

  
 Dogfennel
Dogfennel is primarily a weed of agronomic crops, pastures, hay fields, nurseries and landscapes.
It is found throughout the southeastern United States from Massachusetts to Texas.
Additionally, the leaves and flowers of this weed often emit an unpleasant odor when crushed.
www.ppws.vt.edu /scott/weed_id/eupcp.htm   (262 words)

  
 N.J. Weed Gallery: Weed
Pineapple weed is a problem in spinach and other vegetable crops.
When crushed the leaves have the distinct fragrance of pineapple.
Large Image of Comparison of Pineapple Weed and Corn Chamomile Flowers
www.rce.rutgers.edu /weeds/weed.asp?pineappleweed   (76 words)

  
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It is also commonly referred to as dogfennel since it smells like dog urine when crushed, but the true dogfennel (Eupatorium capillifolium) is a perennial, whereas mayweed is a winter or summer annual.
It is a member of the aromatic tribe of composites, which also includes pineapple weed (yes, it smells like pineapple) and the sages (Artemesia spp.).
Knotweed in the pathway is an indicator that smartweeds (not weed for thought) are thriving in this type of weather (wet and cool).
www.ag.uiuc.edu /cespubs/pest/rawtext/199906e   (333 words)

  
 Weeds Main Menu  - Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
Weed Control Considerations for Early Seeded Crops (Topics Bulletin March 2000)
Weed Control Efficiencies and Reduced Input Strategies (Topics Bulletin March 2000)
Weed Control in Landscape and Turf Areas (pdf format) (87 kbs)
www.gov.mb.ca /agriculture/crops/weeds   (115 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Dictionary - pineapple weed definition
MSN Encarta - Dictionary - pineapple weed definition
Search for "pineapple weed" in all of MSN Encarta
plant that smells like pineapple: a plant with greenish yellow flower heads that smell like pineapple when crushed.
encarta.msn.com /dictionary_1861726294/pineapple_weed.html   (74 words)

  
 Pineapple Weed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The petals are not arranged in a circle around the central stamens
Well done, you've identified a plant called Pineapple weed.
Pineapple weed is not a native British plant, it was introduced possibly from America in Victorian times.
www.whittleton.co.uk /yellow/pineappleweed.html   (65 words)

  
 pineapple weed - OneLook Dictionary Search
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pineapple weed : Encarta® World English Dictionary, North American Edition [home, info]
pineapple weed : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
www.onelook.com /?w=pineapple+weed&ls=a   (141 words)

  
 Weed Gallery: Pineapple-weed--UC IPM
Pineapple-weed is a very common summer annual weed.
Mature pineapple-weed is 3 to 12 inches (7.5 - 30 cm) high.
See How to manage pests, or in the U.S., contact your local Cooperative Extension office for assistance.
www.ipm.ucdavis.edu /PMG/WEEDS/pineapple_weed.html   (140 words)

  
 Purdue Select-A-Herb
This web tool provides herbicide response ratings for weeds/plants and is designed to list herbicides by effectiveness rating that control or suppress specific weeds in different crop categories.
The database is an accumulation of weed control ratings from several Midwest sources.
Use the drop down menus to select a crop, up to three weeds, herbicide, or desired control rating.
btny.agriculture.purdue.edu /herbsel/index.cfm   (80 words)

  
 Pineapple Weed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The flowers are yellow-green, rounded or conical shaped.
This weed is native to the Pacific coast and is now widely distributed in the United States.
Select Biology and Management from the Contents Menu for more information on the biology and management, or select Registered Herbicides for the herbicides that are registered to control this weed in mint.
mint.ippc.orst.edu /pineapple.htm   (122 words)

  
 Pineapple Weed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
In the worn-smooth dirt exactly at the entrance to the garden a number of stunted, frequently trampled, inch-high weeds has sprung up.
Their leaves are like those of milfoil so when I plucked a plant to see if it smelled as pungent as milfoil, I discovered the sleepy fragrance of chamomile.
Other closely related species can have odors similar to "real chamomile," and the species beside my garden gate was one of those relations.
www.backyardnature.net /sierras/pineappl.htm   (152 words)

  
 International Survey of Herbicide Resistant Weeds
he purpose of this survey is to monitor the evolution of herbicide-resistant weeds and assess their impact throughout the world.
Criteria for Confirmation of Herbicide-Resistant Weeds PDF- with specific emphasis on confirming low level resistance.
Herbicide Resistance in Weeds PDF By: Nishanth Tharayil-Santhakumar, Plant andSoil Sciences University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA.
www.weedscience.org /in.asp   (411 words)

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