Meadow knapweed

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Meadow knapweed
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Medusahead

• Winter annual grass
• Long awned-spike, nearly as wide as long
• Bristly head
• Spikelet twisted awns to 4 inches

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Medusahead
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Milium

• Annual grass up to 2 feet tall
• Leaves 1 to 3 inches long blades, 1/16 inch wide,
  and sheaths often purplish
• Roots fibrous

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Milium
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Musk thistle

• Biennial or winter annual up to 7 feet tall
• Flowers nodding heads 1 ½ -3 inches
• Seeds can exceed 20,000 per plant with 90 viable

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Musk thistle
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Orange hawkweed

• Perennial to 12 inches tall
• Leaves basal, lance-shape and hairy
• Entire plant contains a milky juice

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Orange hawkweed
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Oxeye daisy

• Perennial
• Lower leaves 2-5 inches long-upper leaves
  attached directly to the stem with toothed
  margins
• Flowers 1 ½ inches wide, white petals with yellow
  center

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Oxeye daisy
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Field inspection spread sheet
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Inspection certificate minimum standards

• State agency info (address and phone)
• County agency info (address and phone)
• Inspection numbering
• Producer name, address, phone
• Legal description or field
• Acres inspected
• Package/bale size
• Number of bales or tonnage

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Inspection certificate continued

• Commodity/forage type
• Meets North American Standards statement
• Inspection date
• Inspectors signature
• Comment section

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Inspection form

• This form has a white, yellow, and pink copy
• The white goes to the producer
• The yellow to the extension office or game and
  fish
• The pink is the office copy

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Perennial pepperweed

• Erect perennial
• Spreads by seeds and deep-seated rootstocks
• White flower in dense clusters near end
• Basal leaves larger than upper leaves

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Perennial pepperweed
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Sowthistle

• Perennial spreading from horizontal roots and
  seeds
• Stems hollow between joints with milky juice
• Flowers yellow-flat topped

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Sowthistle
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Plumeless thistle

• Biennial sometimes annual
• Stems to 4 feet tall, winged to flower heads
• Flowers red-purple ½ to 1 inch diameter

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Plumeless thistle
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Poison hemlock

• Biennial erect to 10 feet tall
• Stems purple spotted with distinct ridges
• White clusters of tiny flowers
• Fern-like leaves
• All parts are poisonous

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Poison hemlock
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Puncturevine

• Annual mat forming with trailing stems to 5 feet
  long
• Flowers yellow and have 5 petals
• Seed capsules have 2 sharp spines that resemble a
  goat head

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Puncturevine
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Purple loosestrife

• Perennial up to 8 feet tall
• Rose to purple flowers with 5-7 petals
• Adapted to aquatic sites where dense infestations
  impede water flow

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Purple loosestrife
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Transit certificate minimum standards

• This is the form the end user will see
• State agency info (address and phone)
• County agency info (address and phone)
• Transit certificate numbering
• Transporter name, address, phone
• Consignee name, address, phone
• Specific destination

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Transit certificate continued

• Reference to inspection certificate
• Comments section
• Commodity/forage type
• Package/bale size
• Number of bales or tonnage

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Transit continued

• Type of certification marking used (twine, wire,
  or tag)
• Issuer signature, title, phone
• Issue date
• Statement only originals are accepted

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Transit form

• This form has a white, yellow, and pink
• The white is for the end user or consignee
• The yellow to the intrastate district
• The pink is the office copy

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Quackgrass

• Erect perennial grass
• Root rhizomes yellowish-white, sharp-pointed,
  rooting at nodes only
• Roots can penetrate hard soils and tubers of
  other plants

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Quackgrass
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Rush skeletonweed

• Perennial
• Basal leaves dandelion like, upper leaves
  inconspicuous
• Stem bottoms (4-6) has red downward bend coarse
  hairs
• Flowers yellow ¾ inch wide

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Rush skeletonweed