{"id":1932,"date":"2013-04-20T18:49:10","date_gmt":"2013-04-20T10:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=1932"},"modified":"2013-04-22T14:49:33","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T06:49:33","slug":"mares-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/20\/mares-tail\/","title":{"rendered":"Mare’s Tail"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"20130416<\/a>Also called Horseweed or Canadian Fleabane, this is a new weed on the property. \u00a0Throughout summer, I have been pulling up any that I find, but would have come across fewer than 20. \u00a0 I \u00a0obviously missed this one and when I found it in the forest, it was taller than me and worryingly had already set seed. \u00a0All the others I had pulled were just all leaf. \u00a0 \u00a0Driving from Nannup to Balingup for the small farm field day, I noticed that the road verges were covered with the weed.<\/p>\n

Fleabane is regarded as one of the major difficult-to-control weeds in northern\u00a0New South Wales and southern Queensland and has been declared as\u00a0an emerging weed<\/a> in Western Australia, prevalent along the south coast but spreading to other areas as well.<\/p>\n

It\u00a0is one of the most important\u00a0weeds of dryland cropping due to its distribution and the difficulty with its control. \u00a0 It was initially a weed\u00a0of roadsides, particularly where the road shoulders were sprayed with glyphosate (leaving bare soil on\u00a0which the fleabane could germinate and flourish).v A 2009 \u00a0survey by Western \u00a0Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative (WAHRI) in WA found fleabane mostly on roadsides and \u00a0fence lines with its distribution into cropping paddocks predominantly around Esperance. \u00a0The danger of this weed is greatly enhanced by the enormous number of seeds the plant can produce, an average of 60,000 seeds per weed is normal, with large plants producing up to 200,000 seeds.<\/p>\n

In the USA, Canadian fleabane numbers increased with the change to no-tillage growing systems. It had previously occurred along roadsides and field edges but then rapidly colonised the uncultivated fields.<\/p>\n

As the name suggests, Canadian fleabane works as a flea and insect repellent. According to 17th Century botanist and herbalist Culpeper<\/a>, \u00a0Fleabane\u00a0helps with bites from ‘venomous beasts’ and its smoke can kill gnats and fleas. Can be dangerous for pregnant women.\u00a0By 1994 scientific studies validated the plant\u2019s use as an insecticide.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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