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Definition of Carpetweed

1. Noun. Annual prostrate mat-forming weed having whorled leaves and small greenish-white flowers; widespread throughout North America.

Definition of Carpetweed

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carpetweed

Literary usage of Carpetweed

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"carpetweed After Britton and Brown. Four-o'clocks. ... The carpetweed family is represented in Minnesota by the common carpetweed, a mat-plant forming ..."

2. Reports of the Survey (1899)
"It may always be recognized by the division of its stem-pith into disks' separated from each other by cavities. FIG. lii. carpetweed After ..."

3. FLora of the Town of Southington, Conn., and Its Vicinity: A List of the by Charles Humphrey Bissell (1902)
"carpetweed FAMILY MOLLUGO, LM VERTICILLATA, L. carpetweed Common. Cultivated fields and waste ground, mostly in sandy soil; throughout. Sept. (269A.-229B. ..."

4. Conservation Tillage by Jane P. Gates (1994)
"Large crabgrass, goosegrass, and carpetweed densities were higher in the no-tillage compared with the conventional- tillage treatment in at least 1 yr ..."

5. Legumes in Crop Rotations--Bibliography, January 1990-December 1993 by Mary V. Gold (1994)
"Large crabgrass, goosegrass, and carpetweed densities were higher in the no-tillage compared with the conventional- tillage treatment in at least 1 yr ..."

6. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"... a spray of Iron sulfate or Copper sulfate if taken just before or during its first bloom, when it is most tender and more or less hairy. carpetweed j ..."

7. Botany for Young People and Common Schools: How Plants Grow, a Simple by Asa Gray (1880)
"... carpetweed. Pod one-celled, with several or many seeds. Styles 3 to 5. Stipules or little scales between the leaves none. ..."

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