Giant Ragweed

Synonyms:   Great Ragweed

Scientific Name:   Ambrosia trifida


Non-showy, wind-pollinated flowers, irritating allergies. Aster family (flower heads composed of multiple florets, often disk flowers or both disk and ray flowers).

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Giant Ragweed


Genus species: Ambrosia trifida
Common Names: Giant Ragweed, Great Ragweed
Family Name: Asteraceae  
Flowers of two basic types: 1) disk florets with tubular corollas, and 2) ray florets with ligulate corollas. Heads are composed of exclusively one type or the other (discoid or ligulate), or typically with disk florets in the center and ray florets around the perimeter; fruit an achene (or cypsela).
Seed Type Angiosperm
Origin:  
Native: native to North America.
Non-native: not native to North America.
Introduced Native: native to North
America, but not Rowe Woods.
* Definitions based on the USDA
terminology
Native
Category:Wildflower
Flower Color:Yellow Green/Brown
Identified by:A. Swanson
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