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n. - Common North American weed with linear leaves and small discoid heads of yellowish flowers; Erect perennial strong-scented with serrate pointed leaves and a loose panicle of yellowish flowers.

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  • Grey lichen grew on the cabin logs and dried stalks of horseweed and pigweed and fleabane rose from the snow in the doorways.
  • Farther south, in the southern needleleaf region, the transition from old field to forest begins with crab grass and annuals, proceeds to horseweed followed by...
  • Gravel root; horseweed; knotweed; Canadian collinsonia.
  • It seems that horseweed drives most of our burndown decisions.
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