bishop's weed

Related to bishop's weed: sweet woodruff

bishop's weed

1. See goutweed.

2. A chiefly Mediterranean annual plant (Ammi majus) in the parsley family, grown as a source of psoralen compounds used in medicine and as an ornamental for its compound umbels of small white flowers.

bishop's weed

see ammi.

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The bishop's weed seeds were obtained from local seeds market of Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

The study evaluated multiple shoot regeneration on NaOCl treated seed explants of bishop's weed cultured on 1.

Shoot regeneration from mature seed explant of Bishop's Weed on different KIN-IBA concentrations

ESTABLISHMENT OF EFFICIENT MICROPROPAGATION SYSTEM IN BISHOP'S WEED (TRACHYSPERMUM AMMI L) USING SEED AS EXPLANT

Some weeds, however, are better off burning such as quack grass, bittersweet and bishop's weed.

An organic leap to a compost heap

Adult moths are lured towards paler coloured flowers which show up at dusk such as hemp agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum), nightscented flowers such as evening primrose (Oenothera biennis) and night-scented stock, long tubular flowers including common honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum) and Verbena bonariensis, open flowers such as cosmos and bishop's weed (Ammi majus), and aquatic plants such as aromatic water mint or purple loosestrife," she says.