Their seed babies, I mean. Didn’t you get them all over your dresses and stockings one day in the woods?
Beggar-ticks
Smartweed and Knotweed and Lady’s Thumb all resemble each other in appearance.
Plantain and Rat Tails (Rib Grass, English Plantain) are cousins in the same family.
Pepper Grass and Shepherd’s Purse are cousins, too, and both belong to the Mustard family. You’ve often eaten pepper grass seeds, haven’t you?
Field Laurel, or Sour Grass, has leaves with a pleasantly sour flavor.
“Excuse me,” said Mary Frances, as Jack paused, “but you didn’t mention that if you ‘cultivate’ your garden, it will kill weeds.”
“I’m so glad you said that!” Jack replied. “It is the best way to keep weeds out of your garden; but I was speaking of where they had ‘gotten a start.’”
“They’re hard to pull sometimes,” remarked Eleanor. “I’ll tell you how I know. We have just the tiniest lawn, and father gives me an ice-cream cone for pulling five cents’ worth of weeds.”