| Agronomy
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Quackgrass
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| Quackgrass
is an extremely troublesome weed especially in pastures and potato fields.
Like Canada thistle, it cannot withstand the extreme high temperatures
of the southern United States. Quackgrass is a perennial that can
be a serious weed in home lawns and in row crops. |
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It can
reproduce both by seed and by very extensive rhizomes which may be 20 feet
or more in length. These tough rhizomes are extremely troublesome
in potato fields because they will grow right through a potato tuber thus
destroying the marketable portion of the crop. |
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| The seeds
are borne in clusters on the inflorescence and often remain in these clusters
until they germinate. These seeds will be about 3/4 cm in length,
straw-colored and somewhat flattened. Quite often the seeds will
be found with their awns still attached. Quackgrass has been used
in the northern part of Canada and in Alaska as a pasture species but is
not the most productive forage species available. |
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