Russian knapweed

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Russian knapweed

• Perennial herb to 3 feet tall-forms dense
  colonies
• Leaves of several types, alternate and simple
• Flowers lavender, thistle like with scaly seed
  head

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Russian knapweed
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Scentless chamomile

• Annual, biennial, or perennial
• Leaves finely divided
• White daisy-like flowers
• Almost identical to Mayweed chamomile except
  lacks odor

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Scentless chamomile
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Scotch broom

• Perennial woody shrub 10 feet tall
• Flowers are large, yellow, pea-like
• Seeds are flattened pods with white hairs on
  margin
• Escaped ornamental

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Scotch broom
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Forage tag minimum standards

• The words North American Weed Free Forage
  Certification Program
• A number system (tracking purposes)
• Province/state of issue
• Province/state phone (responsible official)

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Forage tag continued

• Statement that the product is Certified to the
  North American Standards

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Scotch thistle

• Biennial sometimes annual up to 8 feet
• Large leaves hairy on both sides, gray in
  appearance
• Spiny leaf wings go onto stem
• Flowers violet with spiny bracts

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Scotch thistle
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Sericea lespedeza

• Perennial legume to 5 feet tall, drought hardy
• Yellowish white pea flowers that dry yellow
• Stems have small hairs laying flat along stem
  ridges

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Sericea lespedeza
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Silverleaf nightshade

• Perennial to 3 feet tall
• Violet to light blue flowers with yellow center,
  5 lobed, 1 inch wide
• Flattened seeds are a yellow to orange berry

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Silverleaf nightshade
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Skeletonleaf bursage

• Perennial, bushy, spreading by seed and creeping
  roots
• Male and female flowers
• Leaves have white hairs on under surface
• Native plant of the plains region

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Skeletonleaf bursage
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Required paper work

• If coming in from out of state, bales with twine
  must be accompanied by a transit
• If the bales are traveling within the state only
  the twine is required except MT
• If the bale has a proper tag, no transit or
  additional paperwork is required

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Current restricted areas

• Greater Yellowstone area in Wyoming, Idaho,
  Montana
• All national forest system lands in the
  Intermountain Region and Rocky Mountain Region of
  Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.

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Restricted continued

• South part of the Butte BLM District
• Gallatin National Forests and Lolo National
  Forest in Montana
• Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado
• Nebraska, Kansas, and Wyoming DOT
• Many other BLM and Forest Service lands are being
  added.

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Law enforcement

• BLM in the Worland District (Washakie, Big Horn,
  Park, and Hot Springs Counties,)
  Wyoming require weed free forage
• With this decision BLM implemented a
  supplementary rule under 43CFR 8365.1-6

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More enforcement areas

• Forest Service in many areas require weed free
  forage
• Some BLM areas, gas and oil companies are
  required to use weed free mulch on reclamation

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Exotic species
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Weed list

• There are 54 species on the North American Weed
  Free Forage List
• For a copy of the list see our website at
  www.nawma.org
• This list is comprised of a combination of
  several states lists

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Weed Free Forage Weed List
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Remember

• There can be weeds in the field as long as there
  is no danger of dissemination of seed or
  injurious portion of the weed or the plants are
  not capable of producing a new plant

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Spotted knapweed

• Biennial or short-lived perennial
• Pink to purple flowers with seed head bracts
  black tipped
• Very aggressive, can infest large areas quickly,
  little forage value

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Spotted knapweed
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Squarrose knapweed

• Perennial up to 18 inches tall
• Leaves covered with fine hair, lower deeply
  dissected, upper bract like
• Flower is small pink with bract tips sharp

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Squarrose knapweed
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Sulfur cinquefoil

• Long-lived perennial
• Leaves palmate compound, 5-7 leaflets, coarse
  stiff hair
• Stems covered with hair
• Flowers pale yellow with 5 petals

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Sulfur cinquefoil
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Syrian beancaper

• Bush-like perennial 3 foot wide and tall
• Thick and fleshy leaflets
• Flower born in upper leaf axils, 5 petal, white
  to cream upper half and orange to salmon lower
  half