° d ' e PLEASE RETURN Ax. 32 9207-IpifJ FARM WEEDS ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR Reprinted from the book FARM WEEDS OF CANADA CANADA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OTTAWA. CAN. ARCH 632.58 C212 1951 PRICE $1. oo FARM WEEDS ILLUSTRATED IN COLOUR These plates were prepared originally to illustrate the book Farm Weeds of Canada." The drawings were made by the late Norman Criddle of the staff of the Department of Agriculture. The plates have been reprinted in the present form to supply the demand for authentic colour reproduction of the common farm weeds. CANADA DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE OTTAWA. CAN. CONTENTS Plate 1 Green Foxtail 2 Sweet Grass or Holy Grass 3 Wild Oats 4 Chess or Cheat 5 Common Darnel 6 Couch, Quack or Scutch Grass 7 Skunk Grass, Wild Barley or Squirrel-Tail Grass 8 Couch or Quack Grass, Rye and Timothy attacked by Ergot 9 Curled Dock 10 Sheep Sorrel 11 Pale Persicaria 12 Wild Buckwheat or Black Bindweed 13 Lamb's Quarters or Pigweed 1 4 Russian Pigweed 15 Russian Thistle 16 Redroot Pigweed or Green Amaranth 17 Corn Spurrey 18 Common Chickweed 19 Purple Cockle or Corn Cockle 20 White Cockle 2 1 Night-Flowering Catchfly or Sticky Cockle 22 Bladder Campion 2 3 Cow Cockle or Cow-Herb 2 4 Purslane or Pusley 25 Tall Buttercup or Crowfoot 26 Wood Whitlow Grass 27 Stinkweed or Field Pennycress 28 Wild Peppergrass 2 9 Shepherd's Purse 30 False Flax 31 Ball Mustard 3 2 Wild Radish or Jointed Charlock 33 Wild Mustard or Charlock 34 Hare's-Ear Mustard 35 Tumbling Mustard 36 Green Tansy Mustard 3 7 Worm-Seed Mustard 3 8 Hardhack or Steeple Bush 39 Upright or Rough Cinquefoil 40 Common Vetch or Wild Tare 41 •• Common St. John's- Wort White Evening-Primrose CONTENTS Plate 43 Spotted Cowbane or Water Hemlock 44 Field Bindweed 45 (lover Dodder 46 Blue Bur or Stickseed -17 Blue-Weed or Viper's Bugloss 48 Common Hemp Nettle 49 Hedge Nettle or Woundwort 50 Toadflax or Butter and Eggs 51 Common Plantain 52 Buckhorn, Rib Crass or English Plantain 5 3 Narro w-I.ea\ ed or Fragrant Golden-Rod 54 ( Canada Fleabane or Horse- Weed 5 5 Poverty Weed 56 Great Ragweed 57 Common Ragweed or Hogweed 58 Yellow Daisy or Black-Eyed Susan 59 Stinking Mayweed 60 Ox-Eye or White Daisy 61 Common Ragwort or Stinking Willie 62 Common Burdock 63 Canada Thistle 64 Chicory 65 Fall Dandelion or August Flower 66 Perennial Sow-Thistle 67 Common or Annual Sow- Thistle 68 Prickly Eettuce 69 Blue Lettuce 70 Orange Hawkweed or Devil's Paint-Brush 71 King Devil Rate I GREEN FOXTAIL (Seharia viridis (L.)B*«av.) Plate 2 SWErET CRASS or HOLY GRASS ( Hierochloe odorafa ID WahienM Plate 3 WILD OATS (Avena fahua L.) Plate 4 CHESS OR CHEAT ( Bromus secalinus u Plate 5 COMMON DARNEL I Lolium temulentum /,.) Plate 6 COUCH, QUACK or SCUTCH CRASS (Agropyron repens i/.illmm:) Plate 7 SKUNK CRASS, WILD BARLEY or SQUIRREL- TAIL CRASS (Hordeum jubatum I.) Plate 8 COUCH or QUACK GRASS. RYE and TIMOTHY al-|-acked by Er§oh Plate 9 CURLED DOCK (Rumex crispus /..) Plate 10 SHEEP SORREL ( Rum ex Acel-osella /,.) Plate 1 1 PALE: PERSJCAR1A Polygonum laparhifolium I.) Plate 12 WILD BUCKWHEAT or BLACK BINDWEED (Polygonum Convolvulus /..) Plate 13 LAMB'S QUARTERS or PIGWEED ( Chenopodium album /..) * i Plate 14 RUSSIAN PIGWEED (Axyris amaranhoides /..) RUSSIAN THISTLE (Salsola Kali /.Var/e/iiiifo/ia dl-M.Viy) % Plate 16 REDROOT PIGWEED or GREEN AMARANTH (Amaranthus relroflexus /..) Plate 17 CORN SPURREY (Spergula arvensis I.) Plate 18 COMMON CHICK-WEED (Stellaria media lUCyiill.) Plate 19 PURPLE COCKLE: OR CORN COCKLE: lAgroshemma Gihhago /..) Plale 20 WHITE- COCKLE: (Lychnis alba AMI.) • Plate 21 NIGHT- FLOWERINC CATCHFLY OR STICKY COCKLE (Silene nochiFlora /.I • Plate 22 BLADDER CAMPION (Silene lahfolta (MltUBrittrnUHnMei * Plate 23 COW COCKLE- OR COW HERB (Saponaria Vaccaria L.) Plate 24 PURSLANE OR PUSLEY ( Por-rulaca oleracea /..) Plate 25 TALL BUTTERCUP or CROWFOOT (Ranunculus acris /..) 9 * Plate 26 WOOD WHITLOW GRASS (Draba nemorosa L.) $ * Plate 27 ST1NKWEED or FIELD PENNYCRESS (Thlaspi arvense L.) • Plate 28 WILD PEPPERCRASS ( Lepidium apehalum Willi.) ,■„,) Plate 32 WILD RADISH OR JOINTED CHARLOCK (Raphanus Raphanislrum Plate 33 WILD MUSTARD or CHARLOCK I Brassica arvensis (L)Ktze.) ♦ * Plate 34 HARES-EAR MUSTARD (Conringia orienfalis (UDumort) Plate 35 TUMBLING MUSTARD (Sisymbrium alhssimum L. ) Plate 36 GREEN TANSY MUSTARD (Sisymbrium incisum Eng*tm i w. ftlipn '„■„,/. ) • * Plate 37 WORM-SEED MUSTARD (Erysimum cheiranl-hoides /.. ) Plate 38 HARDHACK or STEEPLE BUSH (Spiraea bmenhosa /,.) Plate 39 UPRIGHTor ROUGH CINQUEFOIL (Pot-enhlla monspeliensis I..) % • Plate 40 COMMON VETCH OR WILD TARE (Vicia angusHFolia \LJ Reichard.) Plate 41 COMMON ST. JOHNS-WORT (Hypericum perforabum /,/ • Plate 42 WHITE EVENING-PRIMROSE ( Oenothera pallida Until) Plate 43 SPOTTED COWBANE or WATER HEMLOCK (Cicuha macula ha L.I % Plate 44 FIE-LD BINDWEED (Convolvulus arvensis LA • Plate 45 CLOVER DODD&R (Cuscuha sp.) Plate 46 BLUE BURor STICKSErErD lLappula ecbinata (Uliberi) Plate 47 BLUE-WEED OR VIPERS BUGLOSS ( Ecbium vulgare / i * COMMON HEMP NETTL& ( Gale ops is Tehrahih/.J HEDGE NETTLE or WOUNDWORT ( Sfachys palustris LA \ N \ Plate 50 TOADFLAX or BUTTER AND EGGS (Linaria vulgaris hud Plate 51 COMMON PLANTAIN ( Planhago major Plate 52 BUCKHORN. RIB GRASS or ENGLISH PLANTAIN (Planfago lanceolal-a A.) • Plate 53 NARROW- LEAVED or ERAGRANT GOLDEN-ROD (Solidago graminifolia (J.i.Salisk) Plate 54 CANADA FLEABANEtor HORS&WEED ( Eriqeron canadensis A) Plate 55 POVERTY WEED ( Iva axillaris l>ura/i.\ • Plate 56 GREAT RAGWEED ( Ambrosia rrifida />. I Plate 57 COMMON RACW&ED or HOCWEED (Ambrosia arfemisiifolia /, ) fc Plate 58 YELLOW DAISY or BLACK-EYED SUSAN (Rudbeckia hirha /. > % Plate 59 STINKING MAYWEED Anl-hemis Cotula /..) Plate 60 OX-EYE or WHITE: DAISY iChrysanfhemum Leucanthemum /. Vunpimaltftdam LectKf&Lamotte) fjV£l> Plate 61 COMMON RAGWORT or STINKING WILLIE" iSenecio Jacobaea/.) Plate 62 COMMON BURDOCK (ArcHum minus iu- n ,i,) • Plate 63 CANADA THISTLE (Cnicus arvens\s//r,ffm.) Plate 64 CHICORY (Cicborium Inhybus i.) • Plate65 PALL DANDErLION AUGUST PLOWErR (Leonhodon auhumnalis /,.) >\fiGh Plate 66 PERENNIAL SOW-THISTLE ( Sonchus arvensis L.) Plare 67 COMMONor ANNUAL SOW THISTLE (Soncbus oleraceus l..) Plate 68 PRICKLY LETTUCE ( Lachuca scariola L-VarutlefrafaOrmSGedr.) Plate 69 BLUE LETTUCE (Lachuca pulcbella (fiir-iu nr.) Plate 70 ORANGE HAWKWEED or DEVILS PAINT- BRUSH ( Hieracium aurantiacum /. ) • r-'N^',7'' racium praealhum fc/w-i» r Otd/uens Keak.) TIIRE CANADA OTTAWA K1A 0C5 3 T073 0003b002 b OTTAWA Edmond Cloutter, CM.G., O.A., D.S.P., King'- Printer and Controller of .Stationery, 1951