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Dandelions in the Landscape

Flowering dandelion. (Photo: Gerald and Buff Corsi)

Dandelions are broadleaf plants easily recognizable by their bright yellow flower and puffball of white tufted seeds heads. While this plant is appreciated as a food or herb by many, for equal numbers of others it is regarded as a weed when found growing...

Posted on Saturday, January 27, 2018 at 9:40 PM

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Tags: control (46), Dandelion (2), landscape (36), lawn (7), puffball (1), Roncoroni (2), turf (5), UC IPM (219), weed (11)

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No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

[From the UC Weed Science blog] In what has been dubbed “dandelion-gate,” members of the Washington State legislature spent 20 minutes complaining about weeds on the capital's lawn. “In all the years I've been here I've never seen so...

Posted on Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at 9:00 AM

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Author: Cheryl A. Wilen

Tags: biological control (5), chemical (1), control (46), cultural control (2), dandelion (2), integrated pest management (8), mechanical control (1), pesticide (17), physical control (2), UC IPM (219), Washington state legislature (1), weed (11), wilen thresholds (1)