What is pigweed allergy?
Chef's answer
Pigweed allergies, also known as Lams Quarters, is a weed that produces heavy pollen and can induce hayfever, asthma, and conjunctivitis symptoms. Pigweed pollen is most common during the summer months. It can be found in nurseries, crops, roadsides, pastures, and other rural areas..
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Today amaranth can be found almost everywhere from central Canada to Argentina (Sauer 1950b). Their common name, pigweed, may have comes from its use as fodder for pigs. Pigweed plants are commonly considered to be weeds by farmers and gardeners because they thrive in disturbed soils..
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Yes, the weeds in the garden we call pigweed, including prostrate pigweed, from the amaranth family, are edible. Every part of the plant can be eaten, but the young leaves and growing tips on older plants are the tastiest and most tender. The seeds are nutritious and edible and are not difficult to harvest.
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A ready-to-use, glyphosate-based herbicide kills most pigweed plants. Spray all the plant surfaces until wet, and target pigweeds precisely. Glyphosate will kill other plants it contacts..
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Amaranthus retroflexusAmaranthus retroflexus is a species of flowering plant in the family Amaranthaceae with several common names, including red-root amaranth, redroot pigweed, red-rooted pigweed, common amaranth, pigweed amaranth, and common tumbleweed..
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Their common name, pigweed, may have comes from its use as fodder for pigs. Pigweed plants are commonly considered to be weeds by farmers and gardeners because they thrive in disturbed soils..
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Pigweed allergies, also known as Lams Quarters, is a weed that produces heavy pollen and can induce hayfever, asthma, and conjunctivitis symptoms. Pigweed pollen is most common during the summer months. It can be found in nurseries, crops, roadsides, pastures, and other rural areas..
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Native "weeds" that you might consider leaving, at least in a few out-of-sight or controlled areas, that attract moths and butterflies, include plantain (66), horsenettle (61), ragweed (48), lambsquarters (42), nettle (35), pigweed (29), and thistle (29)..
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