Life Cycle Studies with Musk Thistle

Authors

M. K. McCarty
C. J. Scifres

Date of this Version

1-1969

Document Type

Article

Citation

McCarty, M.K. and Scifres, C.J. (1969) Life cycle studies with musk thistle (Research Bulletin: Bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Nebraska No. 230)

Comments

ISSN 0097-1561

Abstract

Musk thistle (Carduus nutans L.) was added to the Nebraska noxious weed list in 1959. The objectives of this study were: (a) to determine the normal life cycle of musk thistle in Nebraska; (b) to determine the variations from the normal life cycle of musk thistle; and (c) to furnish a summary of the phenology for musk thistle in southeastern Nebraska. Observations are used freely throughout the text to describe morphological variations occurring within musk thistle that are not easily quantified.