I couldn't help but wonder how many westward-bound pioneers wandered away from the wagon train to pick bouquets of flax and penstemon and groundsel, never to find their way back.
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Spicebush, groundsel bush and red chokeberry are also offered by Fairweather Gardens, PO Box 330, Greenwich, N . J . 08323; ( 856 ) 451-6261; catalog $ 3.
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Groundsel acts as a host for the fungus that causes cucurbits, cotton, citrus, chickpeas, and several ornamental flowering plants; a list of flowering plants that can host their own fungus as well.
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It likes small to medium-sized seeds from most arable weeds, shepherd's purse ), chickweeds, dandelions, thistle, sow-thistle, mayweed, common groundsel, common hawthorn and birch.
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These include but are not limited to groundsel bush ( " Baccharis halimifolia " ), camphor laurel ( " Cinnamomum camphora " ) and lantana ( " Lantana camara " ) which is listed as a Weed of National Significance.
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Charlock and Shepherd's purse may carry clubroot, eelworm can be harboured by chickweed, fat hen and shepherd's purse, while the cucumber mosaic virus, which can devastate the cucurbit family, is carried by a range of different weeds including chickweed and groundsel.
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It is also known as golden groundsel, squaw weed, life root, golden " Senecio ", uncum, uncum root, waw weed, false valerian, cough weed, female regulator, cocash weed, ragweed, staggerwort, and St . James wort.
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The York groundsel ( " Senecio eboracensis " ) is a hybrid species of the self-incompatible " Senecio squalidus " ( also known as Oxford ragwort ) and the self-compatible " Senecio vulgaris " ( also known as common groundsel ).
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The York groundsel ( " Senecio eboracensis " ) is a hybrid species of the self-incompatible " Senecio squalidus " ( also known as Oxford ragwort ) and the self-compatible " Senecio vulgaris " ( also known as common groundsel ).
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Self-sustaining daisylike golden groundsel, bluebonnets, twistleaf yucca, red yucca, rock rose, cutleaf penstemon, Texas mountain laurel, foxglove ( Penstemon cobaca ), black dalea, cenizo, sotol and blackfoot daisy do their part in prettying up the place with butterfly-attracting blooms.