This page collects some of the ancient literature on weeds and weed management available currently in a digital format. Thanks to Dr. John Byrd Jr., Mississippi State University for his efforts in gathering this invaluable resource.
- Generall Historie of Plantes (Gerarde, 1597)
- Horse hoeing husbandry (Tull, Jethro); Chapter VII – weeds, pages 73-79
- Communications to the board of agriculture (1806); chapter XV on the subject of weeding, the improvements to be affected in agriculture by the expiration of weeds (pages 233-271)
- A sketch of the botany of South Carolina and Georgia – vol 1 (Elliott, 1821)
- A sketch of the botany of South Carolina and Georgia – vol 2 (Elliott, 1824)
- A Flora of North America (1838)
- Agricultural Botany (Darlington, 1847)
- American Weeds and Useful Plants (Darlington and Thurber, 1859)
- USDA Report of the Commissioner 1865 (Weeds of American Agriculture, pages 509-519)
- Weeds of Maine (Scribner, 1869)
- The Weed Exterminator (Michener, 1872)
- The weed flora of Iowa (1891)
- Weeds as fertilizers (WVAES, 1891)
- Distribution of weeds (WVAES, 1892)
- Illustrative descriptive list of weeds (WVAES, 1892)
- USDA yearbook 1895 (Two hundred weeds: how to know them and how to kill them, pages 592-610)
- USDA yearbook 1896 (Migration of weeds, pages 263-286)
- USDA yearbook 1897 (Twenty-five most harmful weeds, pages 641-644)
- Weeds of Ontario (Harrison, 1900)
- Johnsongrass (USDA, 1902)
- Weeds used in medicine (Henkel, 1904)
- Weeds and how to kill them (Dewey, 1905)
- Farm weeds of Canada (Clark and Fletcher, 1906)
- A method of eradicating johnsongrass (Cates and Spillman, 1907)
- Common Weeds of The Farm & Garden (Harold Long, 1910)
- Weeds of the Farm and Garden (Pammel, 1911)
- Weeds and How to Eradicate Them (Shaw, 1911)
- Flora of the Southern United States (Small, 1913)
- A manual of weeds (Ada Georgia, 1919)
- Weeds of the farmland (Brenchley, 1920)
- Kudzu (Piper, 1920)