Garlic Mustard (Alliaria petiolata) on May 13, 2015
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EDRR Status: Local expert notified
Description of specimen
I compared plant with those online for garlic mustard and it was a match. Reniform seedling leaves with crenate margins; stem leaves more deltoid with dentate margins. Inflorescense of white flowers flat topped at first. Garlic smell. I feel confident with thjs id.
Yamhill Co. will soon be adding asphalt to road. They are marking road now. On May 12, 2015 they mowed the roadside, so there likely are no plants to see. I Round-upped the seedlings in April, so they aren't visible now either.(I Cross-bowed them in 2014; no mature plants seen in 2015.) I have great concern that the county will scrape the road and dispose of the soil somewhere that the seeds will spread.
My id's aren't perfect, but I was a career botanist with an MS in Botany
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May 13, 2015, 2:08 p.m.