What kind of weed is this?

Rusty Trigger

Rusty Trigger

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Trying to figure out what type of weed this is. Always called it Kachia Weed. All I know is it holds the birds.

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It's called rooster-weed!!! :D

Don't know what it is, but I find plenty birds in it too - and why does it always seem to be found near feedlots & corrals??? I like it because it definitely does "hold" the birds for the dogs a whole lot better than some other types of cover...
 
We call em' tumble weeds, but fireweed makes sense for a name b/c we've taken big piles out my dad's yard and set them a blaze......boy do they go up fast!

Yes, they always seem to hold the roosters.
 
We Call 'Em Fireweeds

We call 'em fireweeds on the high plains of Kansas and in good patches they hold pheasants, sometimes dozens of pheasants.
 
lol fire grass what i call it one of my favorites i asked a guy why do the birds like it so much and he said it has an oiley seed that pheassants like eating from it anyone heard of this? just what ive been told i dnt know
 
only a pointer said:
lol fire grass what i call it one of my favorites i asked a guy why do the birds like it so much and he said it has an oiley seed that pheassants like eating from it anyone heard of this? just what ive been told i dnt know
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Interesting. I'd never heard this before but maybe PD can give us some insight. I thought they just used it b/c you can't feel a bit of breeze through it toward the bottom.
 
Most memorable 'spot' of my pheasant hunting career involved a couple acres of that stuff. Three years ago the field was milo, then it was converted to CRP the next year, and last year there was a ton of that weed growing up in a corner of the field, maybe 2 acres, between the road, waterway, and railroad tracks.

Needed 1 bird to finish the opening day limit, it was almost noon. Parked the truck, drank a coke, ate an oatmeal cream pie, shot the bull for a second, then crossed the ditch, one step over the broken down fence, and all hell broke loose. If one bird got up out of there, I bet 80 did. Not all at once either, 4 or 5 at a time. So many were getting up I couldn't concentrate, took 4 shots before I dropped the first rooster that jumped, probably 50 yard shot, having scratched him the first 3 shots. I took a good mark on him and marched in the best straight line I could, worrying I wouldn't be able to find him. Luckily, my mark was good and he fell in a couple square foot area that was bare. Good times for sure.
 
just remember that fireweeds will wither away in mid oct as they die off, break off at root and then they become tumble weeds. if its in a huge population of if, it may stay, but standing alone or a small amount of the fireweeds, it will be a tumble weed when the wind picks up.
 
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