Milfoil

Climbing the steep pastures beyond Steps Farm, aiming for the dark fringe of conifers that rim the top of Revidge, the dominant flowers were yarrow, alias milfoil or "thousand leaves" because of the tiny segments into which these are divided. ❋ Unknown (2011)

That's the thinking behind forthcoming plans to research and manage infestations of the harmful invasive plant called milfoil in Maine's inland waters, including Messalonskee Lake in Oakland. ❋ Groups (2010)

In Messalonskee, project officials will be hunting for variable-leaf milfoil, which is less common nationally than the Eurasian milfoil that has plagued Salmon Lake in Belgrade. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In Messalonskee, project officials will be hunting for variable-leaf milfoil, which is less common nationally than the Eurasian milfoil that has plagued Salmon Lake in Belgrade, according to Dr. Peter Kallin, executive director of the Belgrade Regional Conservation Alliance. ❋ Groups (2010)

But cutting the milfoil is a time-consuming process, and the weeds grow back. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Twitch it over lily pads and any type of matted vegetation, such as milfoil and hydrilla. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Concentrate on aquatic vegetation such as milfoil, hydrilla, and pond weeds, targeting them with a black 8-inch or larger plastic worm rigged on a 4/0 worm hook with a 3/8-ounce bullet sinker (you'll want to use 14-to 17-pound monofilament, and a medium-heavy-weight rod). ❋ Unknown (2004)

This one he'll use around vegetation such as milfoil or lily pads. ❋ David A. Brown (2010)

The Lake and Pond Weed Shear can cut weeds such as milfoil, hydrilla, coon tail, curly leaf pond weed, hyacinth, lily pads, flowering rush and even cattails with ease. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yes | No | Report from muskiemaster wrote 37 weeks 6 days ago sounds like some of the stuff like eurasian milfoil and purple loostrife in northern wisconsin that can take over water habitats. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Concentrate on milfoil beds for largemouths, especially those around Painter Creek State Recreation Area. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Other theories include that the stakes held down a barrier planted two decades ago to control milfoil on the lake, but…those stakes were plastic. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Other important plant species in the freshwater habitats include pondweed (Potamogeton crispus), water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), tape-grass (Ottelia alismoides), and buckbean (Nymphoides peltata). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Getting and keeping flowers at the surface requires special adaptations; water lilies, for example, have waxy, bowl-shaped flowers that float by themselves, much like a small boat; water milfoil develops rigid stems that protrude above the water and on which small flowers are borne. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The shallow water in front of the marsh proper consists of rooted aquatics, such as water milfoil and wild celery, while broad leafed vegetation, such as arrow-arum, spatterdock, and pickerel weed, predominate in the regularly flooded portions of the marsh. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It was only a big dock: but you know the dragon-fly had never seen any but little water-trees; starwort, and milfoil, and water-crowfoot, and such like; so it did look very big to him. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The success of milfoil is due to its ability to reproduce through stem fragmentation. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Some like their [veggies] pan [fried] in [olive oil], but I prefere the taste of veggies fried in milfoil. ❋ Slxpluvs (2006)

Leroy: I picked this milfoil in the woods; I can make it into a hot tea for you. Grandma: L'awd have mercy! That's freakin' [hemlock]! Throw [the dang] stuff out, ['fore] we all croak! ❋ JCEG (2007)

"Jeez, there was hella MILFOIL out at [Big Island] today on [Lake Minnetonka]! And I aint talking 'bout seaweed, ya [na mean]?!" ❋ TruckGuy (2009)