weediness

As these examples suggest, there is more to weediness than meets the eye.

It is known for potential weediness due to rapid regrowth.

Despite its weediness, the grass is sometimes grown as an ornamental plant.

Weediness, it would seem, cannot be fully described simply by totting up a score.

On average, the chances of weediness emerging by accident are vanishingly small.

In addition, field tests typically run for one or two years, too short a time, ecologists say, to assess a plant's potential weediness.

This could lead to increased weediness of the plant or the extinction of the native species.

This is despite the fact that they carry only a minority of the 13 stigmata of weediness.

Creeping into every part of our national life today is a wetness and weediness that would have been unimaginable 50 years ago."

All in all it's easiest to think, through the moral weediness, that neither of us has much to gain from my "contribution."

She analysed each member of this roll of dishonour, looking for the 13 hallmarks of weediness.

Keeler has been musing on the nature of weediness and the likelihood of it evolving among engineered crops.

In "Second Nature," Michael Pollan argues that "absolute weediness" does exist.

Its hardiness may however forewarn weed potential, as some evidence of weediness has been seen in Western Australia and New Zealand.

Mr. Palfrey's farmyard doors had the paint all worn off them, and the front garden walks had long been merged in a general weediness.

Weediness is widely held to reside in a set of 13 traits, bearing on such matters as general hardiness, competitiveness, reproductive habits and germination of seed.

Suppose, says Keeler, that we apply the same analysis to other groups of plants - crops, say - and tot up their score on the scale of weediness.

"Comparing Hecker to Chris Martin may be something of a backhanded compliment, but it's an indication of the 29-year-old's potential reach, rather than an indictment of aesthetic weediness.

Perhaps they were a little light in structure compared with normal children of the same apparent age and height, but it was lightness of type, without the least suggestion of weediness, or overgrowth.

Buddleja 'Asian Moon' is a sterile hybrid cultivar developed in response to the popularity, horticulture merit yet high weediness of the 'Butterfly Bush' B. davidii .

But I am prepared to concede the existence of a gray area inhabited by Emerson's weeds, plants upon which we have imposed weediness simply because we can find no utility or beauty in them.

Growing Smarter Weeds Weeds may be pests, but they are n't dumb: They can make use of the best that genetic engineering has to offer and still keep their essential weediness intact.

The quirky, jewel-like obsessiveness of an early painting like "Dead Heron" is hard won and impressive; the weediness of "The Village Boys," which seems partly unplanned, is more impressive.

It was once very popular in cultivation in both Europe and North America, but this popularity dropped, especially in the United States, due to the disagreeable odor of its blossoms and the weediness of its habit.

Usually there is some ebullience in literary feuds, in observing authors flaying each other with gusto, but this one seems pretty dour, with a certain weediness about it, and the only one enjoying himself appears to be Mr. Wolfe, who is counting up the sales.