1. Fading is true while flowering is past.

2. The lower slopes are colonized by flowering plants.

3. Outside was a stone patio with tubs of flowering plants.

4. When the bush has finished flowering, cut back all the stems.

5. He planted a number of flowering shrubs in the garden.

6. After flowering, place the pot in a shady spot in the garden.

7. The beautiful garden was edged with flowering trees.

8. The flowering shrubs were a scarlet flame.

9. Sadly, bamboo plants die after flowering.

10. She planted some roses and other flowering shrubs.

11. The bed is planted with flowering shrubs.

12. Plant bulbs in September for spring flowering.

13. Roses and geraniums are perennials, flowering year after year.

14. These shrubs will need more light to produce flowering shoots.

15. This is a perennating rhizome from which flowering shoots arise annually.

16. You might be able to fit some small flowering plants between the larger bushes.

17. The nineteenth century saw a flowering of science and technology.

18. After all, indiscretion is only the flowering of desperation.

19. The plants are flowering several weeks too early.

20. See thousands of flowering desert plants.

21. Useful for June/July flowering in the herbaceous border.

22. The earth saw its first flowering plants and then a singular explosion of them as the barren plains burst into bloom.

23. The period of emancipation, the flowering of literary tradition, the Holocaust.

24. Her house is in ruins now, covered with flowering weeds and inhabited only by seagulls.

25. If this flowering season coincides with a period of terrible weather, you could lose the entire crop for that year./flowering.html

26. The plant collection includes flowering plants now cultivated in gardens in many tropical areas of the world.

27. The plot was surrounded by a stone wall and planted with flowering trees.

28. Henderson Island in the Pacific has more than 55 species of native flowering plants.

29. When he approached the briar hedge, it melted away and be-came a flowering path.

30. By this I mean the secular humanism that has allowed the flowering of civil society in the West.

1. The lower slopes are colonized by flowering plants.

2. Outside was a stone patio with tubs of flowering plants.

3. When the bush has finished flowering, cut back all the stems.

4. He planted a number of flowering shrubs in the garden.

5. After flowering, place the pot in a shady spot in the garden.

6. The beautiful garden was edged with flowering trees.

7. These shrubs will need more light to produce flowering shoots.

31. Its attractive foliage provides a good backdrop to later flowering plants in the border.

32. It included Gale, evergreen Veratrum with flowering buds, dark green and striped-leaved Pyrola and a pretty Lycopodium.

33. The hothouse flowers gardenia and stephanotis had to be coaxed and nurtured into flowering for the posies and the bridegroom's buttonhole.

34. The convent garden harboured herbs and a yellow flowering vine flourishing over a falling wooden structure.

35. There was gentle warmth in the morning sun and flowering geraniums in a window by the harbour of the Port.

36. Patterned ground is thus reflected in a patterned carpet of mosses and flowering plants.

37. Reforms paved the way for a flowering of democracy in Eastern Europe.

38. They feed, in the main, on flowering plants, themselves evolved from ancestors without flowers.

39. On the other side of the terrace a raised bed provides visual balance and accommodates a specimen juniper and winter flowering heathers.

40. The basis was laid for the flowering of secular literature in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

41. Others need precise daily rations of sunlight that change with the seasons if they are to start flowering at a particular time.

42. Below the copse a track was bordered with grassland rich in flowering plants.

43. A myrtle warbler in a flowering maple tree repeatedly probed into the massed flowers.

44. In the back garden, the oval lawn was surrounded by beautifully tended flowering shrubs and bushes,() giving complete privacy.

45. Avoid an east-facing situation to prevent frost damage and cut back long growth immediately after flowering.

46. Opposite are two beds planted with dwarf conifers and winter flowering heathers.

47. But many of the old scents were upon those newly flowering perennials.

48. Ling At this time of year the moors turn purple with the flowering of heathers.

49. Here, Hazel and Fiver were sitting with Dandelion under a flowering wild cherry.

50. Thus Buddhism is enjoying a great flowering in the West at present; Jesuit priests are studying meditation from Zen practitioners.

51. In the Soviet Union the early post-revolutionary years saw a flowering of creativity.

52. Blessed with plentiful water from the nearby Mekhand Dam, Shantinagar soon abounded with flowers and flowering shrubs.

53. Horizontal or diagonal branches produce more flowering shoots, and therefore more fruit, than vertical ones.

54. They are distinguished by bearing their blooms very close to and within the foliage, but are repeat flowering.

55. It is, in fact,(/flowering.html) the first flowering of fiscal revolt against the high taxes of the Nineties.

56. Q I think I should have pruned some of my flowering shrubs this spring, is it too late now?

57. Combine roses with earlier or later flowering plants, and with evergreens to distract attention from their leafless stems in winter.

58. The image of the guard in his elaborate flowering prison flashes through her head.

59. Butterflies have an intimate relationship with flowering plants, which they pollinate, and themselves derive nourishment from the nectar.

60. In deeper shade, apply phosphorus occasionally as a boost for flowering plants.

61. It was still flowering in November, but the colour had paled to a soft lavender.

62. There was no flowering between us, just the unstated promise of responsibility between one friend and another.

63. A cold spell simply halts flowering for a little while.

64. The land, relentlessly monotone in all but a few summer weeks of feverish flowering, is almost uninhabited.

65. Pruning will also delay the flowering while new shoots grow - a very important point in northern wine regions like Champagne.

66. Such late flowering plants are an important source of nectar for late flying insects.

67. Both of them spoke with longing of the flowering meadows and dark forests.

68. She remembered the vetch, clover, wild roses, flowering grasses and blackberry flowers of early July.

69. Beneath the flowering plants were slats of the veranda half eaten by ants or crumbling with tropical humidity.

70. The nasturtiums were flowering, brilliant and ragged across the soil, orange as flames.

71. The combination of climatic factors results in late flowering of many species in relation to their counterparts elsewhere.

72. In a way, we are witnessing the second coming of Graham Gooch, the flowering of an unfulfilled embryo.

73. The herbs on the floor of the deciduous forest must hurry with their flowering before the canopy closes.

74. Once winter-flowering heathers finish flowering, clamp them lightly with shears to keep them compact.

75. Later on, you can introduce pot-grown lilies and flowering shrubs like fuchsias.

76. This is also a possible reason why Vallisneria, although flowering readily, does not produce seeds in the aquarium.

77. Mix different kinds of foliage plants to create a design, as you would with flowering plants.

78. The first flowering pulse of the year is yellow, characterised by lesser celandine and primrose.

79. Flowering bushes appear to be taking over the hillside and then we enter what looks like a real rain forest.

80. Flowers are white; after flowering, the fruit is quite covered by the broadened calyx.

81. Its strength in finance, flowering at the time, was deliberately promoted by the country's bureaucrats.

82. It may also be noted that last year the true blackthorn overlapped the Myrobalan in flowering season.

83. Seeds a tulipa flowering bulb after 7 –12 years.

84. Habitat and ecology: In montane forest. Flowering: June.

85. Japanese flowering cherry is the symbol of Japan.

85. try its best to gather and make good sentences.

86. Flowering will be late this year.

87. A plant hormone that promotes flowering.

88. Photoperiodic response is not restricted to flowering.

89. Carpel The female reproductive organ of a flowering plant.

90. In this album, two most important works can portray my happiness and they are Flowering Crabapple and Brook and Flower Blossoming.

91. The HL type CMS lines were identified to have the same flowering habit and outcrossing rate with the BT type CMS lines in Japonica hybrid rice.

92. Habitat and ecology: In thin thickets on slopes and on margin of forest. Flowering: Aug. - Sept.

93. Yao Bing Di flowering tree island, Acacia wine into the cylinder Bi Cup.

94. Removal of flowers and pods from flowering soybean plants also delays leaf aging.

95. Flowering can be artificially controlled blossom out of florescence period, which be called as flower regulation.

96. In a happy suburban neighborhood surrounded by white picket fences with flowering rose bushes, sits a black house with a dead lawn.

97. Analyses of the age distribution of duplicate genes in diverse flowering plants indicate that essentially all may be paleopolyploids, but this should not be equated with the polyploid speciation rate.

98. According to the observation of wide and artificial Papaver nudicaul, flowering rule, major factors influencing flowering, regulation method of flowering time and seed collection method were studied.

99. SFE could elevate the activity of invertase in vivo during the periods of flowering and pod - filling .

100. Botany To flower or produce seeds prematurely or develop a flowering stem from a rosette.

101. The environmental factors involved in flowering induction , such as photoperiod changes, vernalization , and drought, affect ABA levels .

102. Conclusion: Chinese flowering quince proteinase plus excessive ventilation of the respirator can rapidly induce pulmonary emphysema models with dogs.

103. In this review, we focus on the recent progress made in CO/FT regulon and its role in adjusting plant flowering.

104. Red, Lotus _ flowered; long and stalks, large pointed leaves in yellowish green, freely branched , medium flowering.

105. The sprouting ability of 3 flowering shrub species, Syringa oblate, Forsythia suspense and Prunus triloba were studied.

106. Habitat and ecology: In valleys or in thickets. Flowering: Mar. - Apr.

107. Angiosperms The flowering plants constituting by far the largest phylum ( Anthophyta or Angiospermophyta ) of vascular seed plants.

108. Corn (maize) and rice have also been studied widely as important crop species,[] and Antirrhinum majus has become a model for flowering.

109. Understanding how nature responds to climate change will require monitoring key life cycle event—flowering, the appearance of leaves, the first frog calls of the spring—all around the world.

110. Chinese flowering quince can treat oedema, beriberi, and ameliorable joint.

111. Suddenly I saw a young male ruby-throated hummingbird in what had been a patch of flowering tobacco.

112. The difference should be discernible in the time of flowering and pollination in orchards.

113. No shading was conducive to the extension of the growth and flowering of Salvia farinacea.

114. Catches an illness the flowering branch to have the mutual infectiousness , but died of old age the flowering branch is easy to have the ethylene acceleration deterioration.

115. Flowering time and bolting time of Brassica crops were two important quantitative traits related to the commerciality.

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116. We have not only seen an earlier break up of ice on rivers and melting glaciers, but also the early emergence of insects, egg laying by birds and the flowering of plants.

117. There are sunflowers flowers with the sun, Tieshu 20 years, once a flower, Tuberose night before flowering...

118. However flowering plants such as azaleas and cyclamen like cooler temperatures.

119. Freesia, a popular cut flower and flowering potted plant, belongs to the Iridaceae family, including iris.

120. Next time should challenge her with "Sago Palm", see if she is able to plant them until flowering. (Sago Palm is a plant that rarely rarely flowers).

121. There is nothing more poetic than a flowering cherry tree .

122. Is breast enhancement Chinese flowering quince useful to the person of middleaged above?

123. Phytochromes mediate the photoperiodic control of flowering in rice (Oryza sativa), a short-day plant.

124. Habitat and ecology: In secondary forests. Flowering: Apr . - May; fruiting: Jun. - Jul.

125. He runs to the flowering shrubs in asks honeybee: Little elder sister, How can be joyful?

126. Green, Hydrangea _ shaped ; staight stems, long stalks, large leaves in yellowing green late flowering.

127. The influences of abamectin, comite and mepiquat chloride make cotton squaring and flowering time earlier than the control.

128. I think that corner is the perfect place for a flowering tree, too.

129. Love's pain sang round my life like the unplumbed sea, and love's joy sang like birds in its flowering groves.

130. The oleanolic acid extracted from the fruit and the leaf of Chinese flowering quince is an important active component, has various medical functions.

131. Mei flower is a widely used flowering tree in landscape design. It has multiple fine qualities: not only beautiful in posture, well-pregnant in meaning, but also easy to cultivate.

132. Recent model-based estimates assume a single transition to a new ploidal level within a genus and provide a lower bound of the polyploidy speciation rate: 2 to 4% in flowering plants and 7% in ferns.

133. Programmed cell death (PCD) during tapetum degeneration in postmeiotic anthers is critical for the proper development of male gametophytes in flowering plants.

134. Results show that the each score of culture mediums with 25%flax bits or 50%kenaf core are better than those of general mediums and useful for the growth and flowering of Cyclamen persicum.

135. Today the summer has come at my window with its sighs and murmurs; and the bees are plying their minstrelsy at the court of the flowering grove.

136. The results showed that Aegilops squarrosa L. cytoplasm had fine effects on wheat flowering habits and characteristics.

137. Red, Rose _ flowered; upright stems and thin stalks, pointed leaves in yellowish green, early flowering.

138. The ancient flowering plant, Archaefructus liaoningensis, resembles a modern-day buttercup, with slender stems and three-lobed leaves.

139. The continental drift and the development of the flowering plants.

140. The freshly green foliage looked sickly, the dogwood pallid, and the flowering crab, so beautifully pink a moment ago, faded and dreary.

141. Agriculture: four pillar industry: citrus with naval orange as the main product, merchandised vegetable, nursery stock, flowering plant and grass-eating livestock and fowl.

142. Maize ears growth slows down in relation to environment stress at flowering while the interval between anthesis and silking was enlarged.

143. Synergid cells Two haploid cells located near the egg cell at the micropylar end of the embryo sac in flowering plants.

144. Habitat and Ecology: On shade places under forest . Flowering: Apr - Oct.

145. As flowering plants move out of step, or "desynchronise", with normal seasons,(http:///flowering.html) serious problems may emerge with the pollination of the plants involved.

146. That is why it is called Spring-greeting flower in China. And coming next in succession are peach blossom, apricot blossom, Chinese flowering apple , flowering almond, and clove etc.

147. You are like a flowering tree, amazed when I praise you for your gifts.

148. Bright petals mark the hibiscus, a flowering plant found in much of the world.

149. Small maidenhair flowering, and finally flowering, to yellow to green color, a few Haodi ah!

150. The results showed that increasing the degree of shade, Salvia farinacea budding, flowering date postponed and the duration of flowering shortened.

151. Seed yield in unit area was positively correlated with the number of flowering plants and capitulum, but was weakly correlated with coverage.

152. Research the response of flowering to mineral elements through measuring the contents of mineral elements, the sum of female-flower and outputs in different cultivars of Castanea mollissima BL.

153. Passiflora Caerulea is the plant requesting long sunshine with Photoperiod effect. Long sunshine can promote budding and flowering.

154. Flowers in vitro have been induced directly from shoots of Gypsophila paniculata L. Cytokinin is a decisive factor for flowering in vitro.

155. Practice: 1. Choose fresh and squashy Chinese flowering quince, flay, go nucleus, cut chunk account, reserve.

156. Raining makes mainly flowering rate and fertilizing rate drop in a great extent, shading causes degradation of glume and increase of unfilled grains.

157. Deep pinkish blue, Anemone _ shaped ; erectly flowering , round leaves, much budded and bloomed , growing vigorously.

158. Habitat and ecology: In forests on hills. Flowering: May; Fruiting: Oct.

159. Amaryllis is a flowering season ball, that is, after treatment, Amaryllis can flower any time you need.

160. The road was fringed with [ by ] flowering azaleas.

161. Japanese flowering cherry is the national flower and plays an important role throughout the development of Japanese culture.

162. The biomass, tuber quality of Jerusalem artichoke and soil bioactivity in flowering and harvest stage were studied through a field long-term continuous cropping located experiment.

163. In flowering plants , for instance, the early stages of endosperm development are often acellular.

164. Khat ( Catha edulis ) is a large, thornless, flowering evergreen shrub , having manyarticulate branches.

165. The flowering cherry tree, or sakura, is one of the most exalted flowering plants in Japan, where the blossoms' short but beautiful blooming time is a symbol for the evanescence of human life.

166. The exuberant flowering among the Cro-Magnon artists in the caves of Europe would come even later; the parade of animals on the walls of Lascaux in France, for example, was executed 17, 000 years ago.

167. Habitat and ecology : On sandy beaches. Flowering : January; fruiting: Apr.

168. Suddenly son seemed to see father smiled, as bright as flowering hornbeam.

169. With an increase in N fertilizer application, N absorption and content in the plants, and stem flowering percentage and number of florets per cyme significantly increased.

170. The results of the experiment indicated that the sand-store are suitable for the Chinese flowering quince with little weightlessness, less reducing sugar and acidity .

171. All transgenic Arabidopsis plants showed a normal habit except for the early flowering phenotype.

172. They often take a long time to die back after flowering.

173. Many chemical substances are now applied to affect the growth of flowering plants.

174. This flowering plant will thrive and bloom wherever you plant it.

175. Born during the last flowering of Imperial Russia but ending his days as a celebrity in Beverley Hills, Rachmaninov was the greatest pianist of his age and a composer of genius.

175. try its best to gather and create good sentences.

176. The rate of flowering plant, rate of flowering branch, flower bud number per branch, fruit cluster number per branch, fruit number per branch increase obviously as the tree age increase.

177. Autumn flowering mimosa and one after another flower plush velvet, with pink and purple.

178. You resemble a flowering tree; thrilled when I praise you for your gifts.

179. From eclosion to oviposition, the OAMs showed similar directional behavior response frequency to the flowering rape and milk vetch.

180. Increasing in size after flowering, as the calyx of the ground cherry.

181. The Lady's Slipper orchid at Silverdale Golf Course in Lancashire, is the last remaining flowering plant in the country.

182. The Chinese flowering crabapple looks still even more charming against the green leaves.

183. The present invention relates to method of controlling plant growth, and is especially method of promoting flowering of Onc.

184. Within these trees flowering is often heaviest on the sun - facing side of the crown.

185. Northern Hemisphere temperate zone, by China southwest mountainous area each kind richest, the cultivation oriental cherry is most famous by the Japanese flowering cherry.

186. Possibility of obtaining earlier flowering of liverleaf Hepatica nobilis schreb.

187. Some flowering, some results, others a relentlessly emitted difform stems Asas 10 meters of lux.

188. Habitat and ecology: In sea. Flowering & fruiting: Jun. - Sept.

189. Your love for flower is unforgettable and your favourite is Chinese flowering crabapple.

190. From 18 - 43 days after flowering ( DAF ) , Chlorophyll was contained in amyloplasts of soybean cotyledon cells.

191. A third way is one I've discovered recently though Eckhart Tolle's dvd "The Flowering of Human Consciousness".

192. Each flowering tree also hosts vibrations that can assist in learning the Language of Light.

193. Dried leaves and flowering tops are used medicinally as a stimulant, tonic, carminative, diaphoretic, and for infantile colic.

194. The lately researches of the function of FLC in the process of vernalization are reviewed in this article on the basis of summarizing various pathways those promote flowering.

195. There are important theoretical and practical significances on carrying out of the research on blossom biology of Ch. sichuanensis and further discussing the bamboo flowering mechanism.

196. Current medical practices blame pollen for the runny eyes or drippy noses that springtime flowers and flowering trees give off.

197. In the most widespread SI system in flowering plants, both compatible and incompatible pollen tubes grow down the style.

198. Flowering and fruiting habits of Scutellaria baicalensis were studied with results which showed that it is an entomophilous and cross pollinating plants.

199. 'Ah, ' said the grasshopper, 'But, you see, the meadow is now white instead of yellow. We now have michaelmas daisies and yarrow flowering there.

200. Habitat and Ecology: On litters under forests. Flowering and fruiting: Aug.

201. Anthurium andraenum is a rare flowering and foliage plant, and has become one of the important flowers at home and abroad.

202. An elevated wooden boardwalk winds its way past the chalets, lined with flowering bougainvillea and tropical plants.

203. Crimson , Anemone _ shaped ; slender erectstems, short stalks , pointed yellowish green leaves , branching freely , medium flowering.

204. Concentrations of Ca oxalate decreased in the ovary(fruitlet) of Kamei after flowering, whereas that of Egan 1 presented significantly increasing trend.

205. Habitat and Ecology: In lowland broad - leaved evergreen forest. Flowering: Aug.

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206. A flowering plant with two embryonic seed leaves or cotyledons that usually appear at germination.

207. The Brest National Botanic conservatory in western France exhibited a flowering plant, the Amorphophallus Titanum, which is alleged to be the biggest and stinkiest flower in the world.

208. Claret, Hydrangea - flowered; erect stems, slender stalks, round thin leaves in yellowish green, middle flowering.

209. Angiosperms The flowering plants constituting by far the largest Anthophyta or Angiospermophyta of vascular seed plants.

210. Air temperature in spring and late winter mainly influences first-flowering dates, and the higher the air temperature, the advancer the flowering dates.

211. Do you know, the chinese flowering crabapple is also called Miss-grass.

212. Flowering plants were making their first appearance, but were still a rarity.

213. That heating effect will induce dramatic effects on these subalpine meadows, causing loss of plant seed we especially value here, the flowering plants.

214. The node location where scions were defoliated also had an effect on the flowering development.

215. He may be happy with the flowering of new thinking, but he has yet to contribute much to it himself.

216. Compared with Liuqianxin A, 731A has a shorter period of flowering days, a smaller angle of glume opening and a longer glume opening time.

217. Two different selfing mechanisms, uncovered here, may provide a partial compensation for the natural reproduction of this alpine species in the arid alpine habitats when flowering at the early summer.

218. Reasonable exploitation and the application have been provided the scientific basis for oleanolic acid from Chinese flowering quince.

219. It could be drawn that the end of the long days flowering induction of Callistephus chinensis 'Meteor' is at bract differentiation phase.

220. I can no more explain these than the brown seed can explain the flowering tree. Deep in the soil in time's midwinter, my very stirring and unease seems a kind of growing pain toward June.

221. Tobacco is a tall perennial herbaceous flowering plant that belongs to the solanaceae or nightshade family.

222. Nonetheless, if you have coworkers with pollen allergies—and it's highly probable you do—you should either avoid flowering plants or snip off the flower buds as soon as they appear.

223. Habitat and ecology: On wet and sunny places beside rocks. Flowering & fruiting: May - Jul.

224. In the phonological development submodel, the PDT from sowing date to germination, seedling, flowering, fruit setting and harvest were quantified as 4, 9, 45, 56 and 102 days, respectively.

225. Habitat and Ecology: In lowland thick forest and on wet places. Flowering: Apr. - Jun.

226. Were I a flowering cherry tree, I would blossom with the brightest light of youth.

227. This article studied the main process in vitro flowering of Rosa chinensis Minima, and explored the formalization production possibility.

228. In summer tassel, Luan tree, acacia , Hystrix real, Weigela flowers, rose, red flowering continuously Hundred Days.

229. Anthophilous insects played a decisive role in the origin and early evolution of the flowering plants.

230. There are 45 autumn - flowering cultivars and about 4.5 % of north china tree peony cultivars were collected.

231. Short flowering stems , called spurs , grow from the youngest, leafless portions of each vine.

232. Vernalization appears to be sensed by the meristem itself, as chilling the plant while the meristem is warmed does not induce flowering.

233. There were flowering cherry-trees near and apple-trees whose buds were pink and white, and here and there one had burst open wide.

234. This great flowering of annotating and indexing will alter the way we discover books, too.

235. Florigen, or the flowering hormone,(sentence dictionary) has been sought by many researchers.

236. The first year's weeds on the Michigan plot are annual flowering plants, followed by tougher perennials like crabgrass and ragweed.

237. Irving Howe, well-known American Jewish scholar and critic, asserted that American Jewish literature had "moved past its high point" after its flowering in the past three decades.

238. This spring - flowering plant is also native to Britain, especially in the eastern parts.

239. Observation of a delayed flowering phenotype in lines over-expressing SUB1A led to the finding that inhibition of floral initiation is a component of the quiescence survival strategy in rice.

240. Europa arose, and began to seek the deer maidens of her compeny. and the girls, so soon as they were come to the flowering meadows, took great delight in various sort of flowers.

241. There is simply no such thing as a typical orchid.The Orchidacae is probably the largest flowering plant family.

242. Phalaenopsis amabilis is a kind of flowering plant with high ornamental and economic value and has a wide market prospect.

243. Advisability is nothing but the fragrance of rose that is flowering in your heart.

244. Types of branch have significant influence on pollen vigour and no influence on Chinese flowering crab - apple.

245. Purple Flowering Stalks which belongs to colewort of Cruciferae is people's love because of its delicious taste.

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246. Two thousand of France's 4,200 species of flowering plants are found in the park.

247. The results showed: plant height, breadth of plant, diameter of stem, length of internode and number of leaves were no more difference between treatments and CK before treated plants flowering.

248. The results indicated that the germinating, leafing, flowering and fruiting of the scions were all pseudo alive, there was no graft compatibility between M. pumila "Golden delicious" and C. speciosa.

249. Four hundred species of flowers, including Indian paintbrushes, prickly poppies, flowering herbs, and the most compelling blossom of all - the bluebonnet, the Texas state flower.

250. A pretty poison, woolly locoweed, flowering during autumn, can make cattle that eat its toxic leaves go berserk and die.