Garden County Nebraska

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Oshkosh, Lewellen, Lisco

What our office does.

The Weed Superintendent inspects land in Garden County for noxious weeds.

Duties of office

The county weed superintendent duties include:

• Being certified, in writing, by the Nebraska Department of Agriculture as a commercial applicator.
• Examining all lands under the jurisdiction of the control authority to determine if the Noxious Weed Control Act and the rules and regulations are being complied with.
• Compiling infestation data and other reports as the Director of Agriculture or control authority may require.
• Supervising and carrying out the coordinated control program within the county.
• Completing 20 hours of continuing education, annually.
• Ascertaining and tabulating the approximate amount and location of land infested with noxious weeds in the county, annually.
• Ascertaining and preparing information required by the county board for preparation of the county budget.

What records we maintain

Location of noxious weeds and owner of land where they are located.

Nebraska Weed Control Act 1989

It is the responsibility of each person who owns or controls land within the State of Nebraska to effectively control noxious weeds on such land. Within Garden county, the noxious weeds are: Musk Thistles, Plumeless Thistles, Canada Thistle, Spotted Knapweed, Diffuse Knapweed, Leafy Spurge, Bindweed, and Purple Loosestrife.

Your willing cooperation in controlling these weeds not only provides an increased economic return to you as the landowner, but also greatly improves relations with adjacent landowners. Effective control can include any on or all of the following methods: spraying, cultivation, and mowing. Failure to take action may result in the Garden County Weed Control Authority taking legal action to effect control.

NOXIOUS WEEDS MUST BE CONTROLLED

You are required to control these noxious weeds on your property.

Clicking on picture will launch a new window with a larger view of the Musk Thistle	Common Name: Musk Thistle Scientific Name: Carduus nutans L. Origin: Eurasia Flowering Dates: May - August Reproduction: Seeds
Clicking on picture will launch a new window with a larger view of the Plumeless Thistle	Common Name: Plumeless Thistle Scientific Name: Carduus acanthoides L. Origin: Eurasia Life Span: Biennial (or winter annual) Flowering Dates: June - August Reproduction: Seeds
Clicking on picture will launch a new window with a larger view of the Canada Thistle	Common Name: Canada Thistle (Field Thistle) Scientific Name: Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop. Origin: Eurasia Life Span: Perennia Flowering Dates: June - August Reproduction: Rhizomes and seeds Growth Form: Forb
Clicking on picture will launch a new window with a larger view of the Leafy Spurge	Common Name: Leafy Spurge Scientific Name: Euphorbia esula L. Origin: Eurasia Life Span: Perennial Flowering Dates: May - September Reproduction: Rhizomes and Seeds Growth Form: Forb
Clicking on picture will launch a new window with a larger view of the Diffuse Knapweed	Common Name: Diffuse Knapweed Scientific Name: Centaurea diffusa Lam. Origin: Eurasia Life Span: Biennial (or short-lived perennial) Flowering Dates: June-September Reproduction: Rhizomes and Seeds Growth Form: Forb Differences from Spotted Knapweed: Flower: White to rose or purple Inflorescence: Involucral bracts are divided like teeth of a comb with a terminal spine(1.8-8mm long). Bracts are usually not dark at the tip.
Clicking on picture will launch a new window with a larger view of the Spotted Knapweed	Common Name: Spotted Knapweed Scientific Name: Centaurea maculosa Lam. Origin: Eurasia Life Span: Biennial (or short-lived perennial) Flowering Dates: June-September Reproduction: Seeds Growth Form: Forb Height: 0.3-1.2 m (1-3.9 ft)
Clicking on picture will launch a new window with a larger view of the Purple Loosestrife	Common Name: Purple Loosestrife (purple lythrum, spiked loosestife) Scientifice Name: Lythrum salicaria L. Origin: Eurasia and Africa Life Span: Perennial Flowering Dates: July-September Reproduction: Seeds and rhizomes Growth Form: Forb
Clicking on picture will launch a new window with a larger view of the Phragmites	Phragmites have been added as a noxious weed in Nebraska as of April 15th 2008 Common Name: Phragmites Scientifice Name: Phragmites (Phragmites australis ssp. australis). Origin: Europe Life Span: Perennial Flowering Dates: June-August Reproduction: Seeds and Stolons Growth Form: Grass Habitat: Rivers and Wetlands Statewide Control: Mechanical, Cultural, Chemical, Biological
Clicking on picture will launch a new window with a larger view of the Saltcedar	Common Name: Saltcedar (tamarix, tamarisk) Origin: Eurasia Life Span: Perennial Flowering Dates: April - September Reproduction: Seeds, root sprouts, buried stems Growth Form: Shrub or Forb For more pictures, information, and control measures, you may visit www.neweed.org/noxweeds/salt.htm

Bindweed is also on the Garden County Noxious Weeds list. Bindweed must be controlled in Garden County.

Commong Name: Field bindweed (Morningglory family)
Scientific Name: Convolvulaceae

Field bindweed is a perennial from an extensive root system, often forming dense tangled mats. Stems are prostrate, 1 to 4 feet long. Leaves alternate, more or less arrowhead-shaped with spreading, pointed or blunt lobes at the base. The flowers are bell- or trumpet-shaped, white to pinkish, approximately 1 inch in diameter with 2 small bracts located 1 inch below the flower. Fruit is a small round capsule, usually 4-seeded. Seeds are dull brown, roughened, flattened on two sides, round on the other and about 1/6 inch long.

Field bindweed was introduced from Europe and has become a widespread and serious weed problem in all parts of the U.S. except the southeastern states. In the western United States, it is extensively distibuted in cultivated fields and waste places. Because of its remarkable adaptability to different environmental conditions, it may be found at altitudes as high as 10,000 feet. It is a difficult weed to eradicate because of th elong deep taproot which can penetrate the soil to a depth of 10 feet and which gives rise to numberous long lateral roots. Seeds remain viable for up to 50 years. The flowering period is from late June until frost in the fall.

 

Leaves of field bindweed are shaped like arrowheads. Thay are normally slender with sharp pointed lobes, though many variations occur.

 

Flowers are funnel-shaped and vary in color from white to pink. Note tiny bracts 1 inch below base of flower.

 

NOXIOUS WEEDS MUST BE CONTROLLED

You are required to control these noxious weeds on your property.

Notice is hereby given pursuant to the Noxious Weed Control Act, section 2-955, subsection 1(a), to every person who owns or controls land in Garden County, Nebraska, that noxious weeds being or growing on such land shall be controlled at such frequency as to prevent establishment, provide eradication, or reduce further propagation or dissemination of weeds. Upon failure to observe this notice, the county weed superintendent is required to:

• 1. Proceed pursuant to the law and issue legal notice to the landowner of property infested with noxious weeds giving such landowner 15 days to control the noxious weed infestation. Conviction for noncompliance may result in a $100.00 per day fine to the landowner with a maximum fine of $1500; or
• 2. Should more immediate control be required, proceed pursuant to the law and have the weeds controlled by such method as he/she finds necessary, the expense of which shall constitute a lien and be entered as a tax against the land, and be collected as other real estate taxes are collected, or by other means as provided by law.

The public is also hereby notified that noxious weed seed and propagative parts may be disseminated through the movement of machinery and equipment, trucks, grain and seed, straw, nursery stock, fencing materials, sod, manure, and soil as well as articles of similar nature. Methods of treatment have been prescribed by the Director of Agriculture and may be obtained from the county weed control authority.

Nebraska Watch List Weeds