The bane of allergy-sufferers everywhere, Common Ragweed is wind-pollinated: instead of large attractive flower heads, it relies on myriad small pollen-dispensers. The plant in full bloom passes nearly unnoticed, even in large drifts. It grows everywhere—in cracks in the pavement, in vacant lots, at the edge of a yard, in the middle of your garden. These plants were growing in the Seldom Seen Greenway, where they were in bloom in the middle of August.
