Plant Description:

• Introduced, dry prairie, weedy species growing up to 40 cm tall
• Leaves are highly divided and look like feathers
• Many green-yellow flower heads at stem ends
• Gives off the smell of pineapple when flowers are pressed
• Pineappleweed Tea has a calming effect and treats sore throats
• Can be used as a deodorant and can be rubbed on hands after cleaning fish to remove smell
• Occurs everywhere - in disturbed sites, along roadsides, sidewalk cracks and is a weed in lawns
• Found at Stops 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, and 11

 

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-Sourced from Budd's Flora of the Canadian Prairie Provinces, 1979 and
Plants of the Western Boreal Forest & Aspen Parkland, 1995.
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