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Old 20-03-2005, 11:45 PM
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In article .com,
"raycruzer" wrote:

Everything you want to know about weeds: http://www.ergonica.com.


When every commentary pretty much addds up to "buy this crappy gizmo"
there just isn't any credibility to be had, & the half-dozen pages I
looked at had very little information anyone would be seeking about weeds,
though there were a gods-plenty advertisements.

But there ARE many fine weed & wildflower websites which can be found with
a google search, the primary goal of such sites being to inform, not to
provide continuous sales-pitches for useless garden geegaws. The subject
is enormous & no one website covers it all: desirable wildflowers, native
plant gardening, noxious, alien, & invasive species, harvesting edible
wild plants, poisonous weeds, regional websites on identification of
weeds, big photo galleries devoted to weeds, organic vs chemical weed
control, & so on. Here's a sampler of vastly more interesting info-packed
weed websites:

Global Compendium of Weeds:
http://www.hear.org/gcw/index.html

Search page for a database of thousands of weeds:
http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/photos/flora/

Identify weeds & wildflowers:
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com...ies_Index.html

Department of the Interior/Bureau of Land Management Weed Website, with
special focus on noxious & invasive weeds:
http://www.blm.gov/weeds/

USDA website on noxious weeds:
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ppq/weeds/

Vascular plant photo gallery:
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/gallery.htm

National Park Service database on invasive weeds:
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/

University of Florida's weed resource:
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/TOPIC_Weeds

Cornell's thrilling poisonous plant database:
http://www.ansci.cornell.edu/plants/index.html

University of Montana's comprehensive database for Northwest invasives:
http://invader.dbs.umt.edu/

Weed identification traits search engine:
http://www.agproducts.basf.com/weedguide/menu.asp

The Nature Conservancy's weeds connection:
http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/

Nature Conservancy's way cool links page for regional & national weed websites:
http://tncweeds.ucdavis.edu/links.html

Here are some additional weed links:
http://www.ippc.orst.edu/cicp/gateway/weed.htm
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