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Alberta Invasive Plant Identification Guide

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• Information: Introduced from Europe, weed of pasture/forage. Also<br />

known as Teasel.<br />

• Life Cycle: Perennial.<br />

• Root: Taproot.<br />

• Leaves: Large, opposite, deeply divided, hairy.<br />

• Stems: Covered by coarse stiff hairs, covered with black dots. This is a<br />

tall plant growing up to 1.3m.<br />

• Flower: Pink terminal flower head.<br />

• Seed/Fruits: Hairy, pappus, small.<br />

• Toxicity:<br />

Scabious, field<br />

Knautia arvensis, Dipsacaceae (Teasel Family)<br />

Category: Noxious<br />

• Control: Chemical.<br />

www.anpc.ab.ca/wiki/index.php/Knautia_arvensis<br />

AIPC Fact sheet http://www.invasiveplants.ab.ca/Downloads/FS-FieldScabious.pdf<br />

<strong>Alberta</strong> Sustainable Resource Development<br />

70<br />

Wheatland County<br />

www.anpc.ab.ca/wiki/index.php/Knautia_arvensis

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