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Hawkweed Control in Alaska
Steven Seefeldt
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Background
• Hieracium
– About 800 species world wide
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Background
• Hieracium
– About 800 species world wide
– Hierax = hawk. It was thought that the great
vision of hawks was due to their supposed
addiction to these plants
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Background
• Hieracium
– About 800 species world wide
– Hierax = hawk. It was thought that the great
vision of hawks was due to their supposed
addiction to these plants
– “Certainly the eye of a hawk is needed to
distinguish the host of species” Lewis J. Clark
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Background
• Native Hieracium species in AK
– albiflorum White
– umbellatum Narrow leaved
– tristi Alpine
– scouleri var. albertinum Western
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Background
• Introduced Hieracium species in AK
– aurantiacum Orange
– caespitosum Meadow
– murorum Wall
– lachenalii Western/common
– pilosella Mouse ear
– sabaudum New England
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Orange Hawkweed
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Meadow Hawkweed
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Meadow Hawkweed
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Wall Hawkweed
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Western/common Hawkweed
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Mouseear Hawkweed
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New England Hawkweed
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New England Hawkweed
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Red = western/common
Yellow = mouseear
Blue = Meadow
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Green = narrow leaved
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Hawkweed reproduction
• Flowers from rosettes, typically get one
stalk
• Each stem with multiple flower heads
• Each head with multiple seeds
• Seeds dispersed by wind and easily
carried on vehicles, animals and clothes
• Many species have stolons
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Whitehorse
Orange Hawkweed in Alaska
• First identified in Juneau in 1961
• Starting to become more widespread
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Orange Hawkweed management
• Information from the south
– Mechanical methods not effective
• Mowing increases vegetative spread
• Plowing spreads
• Digging difficult
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Orange Hawkweed management
• Information from the south
– Mechanical methods not effective
• Mowing increases vegetative spread
• Plowing spreads
• Digging difficult
– No biological agents
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Orange Hawkweed management
• Information from the south
– Mechanical methods not effective
• Mowing increases vegetative spread
• Plowing spreads
• Digging difficult
– No biological agents
– Herbicides
• Must have surfactant to get past leaf hairs
• Must apply during rosette stage
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Talkeetna Weed Pull
Methods:
• 2 x 2 meter plots
• 8 treated plots, 8
control plots
• Pre-treatment % cover
estimates
• Hand pulled each
treated plot (biomass of
orange hawkweed
including roots and
stolons)
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Post-Pull (8/6/2007)
6 weeks after pull
Post-Pull (6/25/2007)
End of the day
Post-Pull (8/6/2007)
6 weeks after pull
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Orange Hawkweed management
• Herbicides used in the south
– 2,4-D 2,4-D
– Banvel Dicamba
– Transline Clopyralid
– Curtail Clopyralid + 2,4-D
– Redeem R&P Clopyralid + triclopyr
– Milestone Aminopyralid
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Greenhouse Study
• Clopyralid + Triclopyr (Redeem R&P)
• Aminopyralid (Milestone)
• Clopyralid (Transline)
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Greenhouse Study
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Greenhouse Study
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Greenhouse Study
• Used 6 herbicide rates 1, 1/2, 1/4, 1/8,
1/16 and 0 times the full label rate
• Sprayed 10 plants at each rate when at
the 8 leaf rosette stage
• Visually rated damage after 3 weeks
• Cut plants at ground level, dried and
weighed
• Experiment conducted twice
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Greenhouse results – Redeem
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Greenhouse results - Milestone
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Greenhouse results - Transline
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Greenhouse results
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First trial Second trial
First trial Second trial
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Field Trials
• Five sites, Talkeetna and
Homer
• Plots 6 x 30 feet
• Three herbicides at three
rates (1, ½, and ¼ the full
rate plus a control)
• Three replications of each
of the above treatments
• Randomized complete
block
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2007 Field Trials
Pre-treatment Measurements:
• Two ¼ x ¼ m sub-plots per plot
• % cover estimates of orange
hawkweed, grasses, and forbs
Post-treatment Measurements:
• Rate plots visually based on
herbicide damage, 0% (no damage)
to 100% (dead) after three weeks
• End of season harvest ¼ x ¼ m
sub-plots and separate by cover
type
• Rate plots visually the following year
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The work in Homer, AK
Control area
Biomass harvest Milestone 1x
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Visual Injury - Redeem
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Visual Injury - Milestone
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Visual Injury - Transline
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Orange Hawkweed control
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Impact on Grasses
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Impact on broadleaves
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What were the other plants
Milestone Redeem Transline
----------------- % injury -----------------
Dandelion 100-72 98-83 81-73
Clover 100-53 100-80 73-57
Yarrow 25 100-50 70-50
Geranium 0 100 -
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Conclusion
• Three herbicides are promising for use on
orange hawkweed and one (Milestone) is
effective at reduced rates based on
greenhouse and field research
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Conclusion
• Three herbicides are promising for use on
orange hawkweed and one (Milestone) is
effective at reduced rates based on
greenhouse and field research
• Grasses increased as orange hawkweed
decreased
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Warnings
• From the book Wild Flowers of the Pacific
Northwest by Lewis J. Clark
– Pg 561 – “Introduce into one’s garden with
peril”
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Acknowledgements
• ARS – Jeff Conn, Joseph Kuhl, Dan Hall, Erin
Carr, Nan Werdin-Pfisterer, Trista Saunders,
Jennifer Kapla, Steve Lillard, Zachary Behr,
Katie Mohrmann, and Katie DiCristina
• AK - Caleb Slemmons, Gino Graziano, Steve
Hicks, Jen Vaughan, and Emily Perchuzel
• Weed pullers of the Youth Conservation Corps
and Talkeeta citizens
• Four land owners