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swallow wort::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | celandine, chelidonium majus, greater celandine, swallowwort |
| Type of | poppy |
Examples of swallow wort
swallow wort
The problem with swallow-wort is that it takes over fields, destroying native plants.
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Neil Fairbairn, a Belmont gardening author, has faced off against black swallow-wort in his own backyard.
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Black swallow-wort is a particularly stubborn and hardy weed, wrapping its tentacles around plants and hedges.
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Black swallow-wort reportedly first arrived in North America via Massachusetts in 1854, where it escaped from a garden in Ipswich.
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Brittany Bird, natural resources planner for the county, said the money will be used this fall to help purchase herbicide to kill the swallow-wort.
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At Mass Audubon's Habitat property in Belmont, workers were monitoring about five or six spots where black swallow-wort was proliferating.
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At Drumlin Farm, where swallow-wort has run rampant through some fields, workers use backpack sprayers to eradicate the weed in areas where visitors do not walk.
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In the heavily traveled areas of the property, such as near the farm animals, workers try to manage swallow-wort by pulling it from the ground and cutting off seed pods.
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One day earlier this month, Mooney was seeking out patches of black swallow-wort in Habitat's new meadow, trimming it close to the ground and applying a dab of herbicide to the cut stem.
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