Spiny buttercup (Ranunculus muricatus) is a non-native plant, that is fairly common, especially in wet areas such as meadows. We also find it in crops, including orchards, pastures, and cereal grain fields.
Way back in the early 2000s (we thinkthere's no date on it!) the San Benito County Weed Management Area developed a great weed guide for our area called Selected Invasive Weeds of San Benito County: A Field Identification Guide. It contains twenty five of the most common weed species in the county.
UCIPM and California Department of Pesticide Regulation are holding at Long Beach on June 19 and Dixon on June 22 [8am-3pm] Open to all but focused on school staff and landscape pest management contractors that work with (or want to work with schools) The Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) has...
Graduate student, post-doc, and technician positions available to investigate the genetics of invasiveness and herbicide resistance in aquatic plants Description: Assist with a funded research project combining molecular genetics and field/greenhouse studies to investigate the genetic basis of growt...
Occasionally plants show up in our office for identification and no one in the office knows what it is. So it's sent off to others who might know. This was the case of a perennial amaranth, also called goosefoot for some reason. This is Chenopodium californicum, also known as Blitum californicum.
