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Oh, Beautiful Star-of-Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Lawrence E. Steckel  and
M. Angela McClure
Lawrence E. Steckel*
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, 605 Airways Boulevard, Jackson, TN 38301
M. Angela McClure
Affiliation:
Department of Plant Sciences, University of Tennessee, 605 Airways Boulevard, Jackson, TN 38301
*
Corresponding author's E-mail: lsteckel@utk.edu.
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

—Robert Burns

Take a walk in many no-till fields that will be planted to a crop or stroll across lawns or golfcourse greens in the spring, and it is not hard to spot the small, white flower of the star-of-Bethlehem (Ornithogalum umbellatum L.). Star-of—Bethlehem is an aggressive weed of lawns, pastures, gardens, and many no-till agriculture fields of the temperate regions of the United States and indeed the world (Hagerman and Young 2004; Johnson and Nice 2015).

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Weed Technology , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , December 2015 , pp. 874 - 877
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Copyright © Weed Science Society of America 

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Footnotes

Associate Editor for this paper: Randy L. Anderson, USDA-ARS.

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