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Photographer: from USDA Plants website
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Family Asteraceae
Ambrosia tomentosa Nutt.
bur ragweed, skeleton-leaf bur ragweed, skeleton-leaf bur-sage
Ambrosia: Greek for "food of the gods"
tomentosa: densely woolly
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| Status: | Introduced - adventive |
| Plant: | erect, perennial forb with many branches; creeping, colony forming roots |
| Flower: | inflorescence of many, small, gree, bead-like heads on spikes; blooms May-Aug. |
| Fruit: | not on fluffy pappus |
| Leaf: | mostly alternate, white hairs below, 2-3 times pinnately-divided |
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