Allergy Shots in Nebraska: What to Know

Nebraska's open agricultural land, ditches, and high winds make it a national ragweed hotspot. A single plant produces up to a billion grains. Ragweed dominates until first hard freeze.

Particularly abundant per Lincoln pollen monitoring

Thrives along Nebraska's river bottoms, corn and soy field edges, and disturbed agricultural ground, with even higher pollen output per plant than short ragweed.

Dominant along river corridors

Nebraska's state tree lines the Platte, Missouri, and Niobrara rivers, producing visible cotton plus allergenic pollen each spring.

Lines every major NE river

American and Siberian elms are abundant in eastern Nebraska shelterbelts and urban Omaha and Lincoln. Among the earliest tree pollens each year.

Common in shelterbelts and urban areas

Nebraska is the #3 corn-producing state. Tasseling fields release massive clouds in mid-summer, and combine harvest stirs up grass, weed, and mold dust.

#3 corn-producing state

Dominant in the semi-arid western Panhandle around Scottsbluff and Chadron, thriving in dry High Plains soils.

Dominant in western Panhandle