Farmers
have voted Lamb’s Quarters the worst weed in answers to a survey by the
University of Guelph.
David
Bilyea, a research technician at the Ridgetown campus, worked with
colleagues Kris McNaughton and Christie Shropshire to ask farmers to list the
five most troublesome weeds.
Lamb’s
Quarters is a common annual weed that grows up to six feet tall.
It
can adapt to almost any environmental condition and is very competitive
with all plants.
Others
making the list are Canada fleabane, common ragweed, eastern black nightshade
and pigweed.
