[pbs] popweed
Kathleen Sayce
ksayce at willapabay.org
Tue Mar 3 20:32:05 EST 2009
––But both gardens harbor the one I most dislike, popweed.
It's a Cardamine species, but I can't ascertain which one. I've
already started
this year's round of weeding it out––
Roger mentioned this tiny weed. I have it too, a few hundred miles
south of Victoria, BC, just north of the Columbia River. I finally
keyed it out, if it's the same rosette of basal leaves and small
spike of white mustard flowers, as Cardamine hirsuta, hairy
bittercress, or locally, shot-in-the-eye, for the unerring aim of
those thrown seeds when the pods pop open. Ruthless weeding is the
only way to keep ahead of it, in gravel, or flower beds. The seeds
are propelled several feet, always ensuring that if you are slow to
pull the rosettes, and wait too long, until they are in ripe pods,
that at least one will survive.
Kathleen
On Willapa Bay, just north of the Columbia River, where it snowed
last week, and this week, snowdrops, early daffodils, crocus, and
tulips are in flower
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