| 4387069 |
Plant(s) |
Dairy farm - Appling Co. Tim Varnedore, CES Baxley & Art Miller, PPQ photo by Frank Krainin |
| 4387083 |
Plant(s) |
Frank Krainin, PPQ, studies plant after frost. In the spring, plant was confirmed as a herbaceous perennial, in Appling county. An early observation that TSA roots could survive the winter in Georgia. |
| 4387084 |
Plant(s) |
TSA plant after frost, or herbicide treatment which gives same appearance.TSA fruit are more available for feeding by cattle, deer and other animals. |
| 4387085 |
Plant(s) |
closer view of TSA plant, |
| 4387086 |
Control |
PPQ officier Derrick McNeal using brush hook. No herbicide was used on the dairy farm by PPQ in Appling County, Georgia |
| 4387087 |
Plant(s) |
low growing , Appling County, Georgia. Short plants were observed on very sandy soil |
| 4387088 |
Plant(s) |
plant in back of farm pond Pete Wright Dairy Farm 1997 |
| 4387065 |
Competition |
Competing with palmetto and other weeds where manure had been spread in field behind slaughter house in Alma, Georgia (Bacon County) |
| 4387081 |
Plant(s) |
Pete Wright Dairy Farm, near Baxley, in Appling County, Georgia near pond |
| 4387082 |
Plant(s) |
Frank Krainin, PPQ and Tim Varnedore, Extension Agent, behind large plant beyond water hole in south Georgia |
| 4387076 |
Control |
Bacon County, Georgia field at Lee Meats. Plants sprayed by Dr. Clyde Dowler using Grazon P&D during field testing in a field north of the slaughter house. In foreground is manure, spread in field. |
| 4387077 |
Equipment |
manure being spread in field at Lee Meats |
| 4387078 |
Competition |
competing with other weeds in Bacon County, Georgia |
| 4387079 |
Fruit(s) |
after frost, green and yellow fruit were mostly intact |
| 4387080 |
Dispersal |
Manager of Fla. Seed and Feed store reported an unusual plant (TSA) growing from broken bags of Black Kow cow manure, 1994. Plant displayed at TSATF meeting in Ocala FL by Randy Westbrooks and Art Miller. |
| 4387072 |
Research |
PPQ approved containment facility, Coastal Plain Experiment Station in Tifton, Georgia. Pot experiments testing several herbicides by Dr. Clyde Dowler |
| 4387073 |
People |
Lanier Jordon, County Extension Director, Newton, Georgia (Baker County) "You couldn't invent a worse weed" Lemuel Screws' farm -site where TSA first found and reported in Georgia |
| 4387074 |
Control |
Lemuel Screws farm, Newton, Baker County, Georgia site where TSA first reported. Spots where cattleman had used Roundup in pasture to kill TSA |
| 4387075 |
Control |
Newton, Ga.; Lemuel Screws burn pit -he had carried TSA plants to pit (deep/straight sides) across road from house. No TSA was ever found growing near the pit. |
| 1624036 |
Plant(s) |
Thorny nightshade from Argentina, first appeared in the United States in pastures and rangelands in Glades County, Florida, in 1988. Mottled green fruits that look like small watermelons are a distinguising feature of the plant. This picture is of an infested dairy farm pasture in Appling County, GA |