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DESCRIPTION:
Hairy fleabane, a common summer annual or biennial broadleaf of waste areas and cultivated
fields, may be confused with horseweed. Both plants grow in the same areas, but hairy
fleabane has a more branching growth habit with more abundant, basal foliage.
Hairy fleabane seedlings are covered with
short, soft hairs. Gray-green cotyledons (seed leaves) are about twice as long as they are wide, hairless or nearly so with
short stalks. Leaves are alternate. The first leaf is oval to narrowly football-shaped and sparsely or densely covered with
hairs. Mature plant is 1.5 to 3 feet (0.5 - 0.9 m) tall and well branched. Flowers are small, dull white, and held on
flowering stalk at the upper parts of the branches. It competes severely for
water and grows
rapidly.
Broadleaf ID illustration.
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