Yellow Nutsedge

Yellow nutsedge, (Cyperus esculentus), is a common lawn and garden weed in Missouri. It is also referred
to as nutgrass or watergrass. It is not a grass but rather a sedge. This is evident in the stem that is
triangular in cross section, not round as in grasses. The leaves are bright green and have a waxy
appearance.

Purple Nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus)

Purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus) is a colony-forming perennial weed that
seriously impacts agriculture across the southernmost United States. Native to
tropical Eurasia, purple nutsedge has become a major weed of vegetable, row, and
plantation crops in tropical and warm temperate climates around the world, is very
difficult to manage with either organic or conventional weed control strategies
(William, 1976; Bangarwa et al., 2008; Wang et al., 2008), and has been called the
world's worst weed (Holm et al., 1991).
 Annual Sedge
(Cyperus compressus)
Cyperus compressus, commonly known as annual sedge, is a sedge of the family Cyperaceae that has a wide distribution
throughout countries with warmer climates. It is found in tropical areas of Africa, Asia and the Americas.[1]
In Europe it is commonly known as hedgehog sedge and the French know it as souchet comprimé. In India it is
called mothi and in Japan it is known as kugugayatsuri.[1]

Cyperus Retrorsus
( Cylindric Sedge )
Tight, cylindrical seedheads appear atop flat, smooth green leaf blades. Perennial turf
grass which occurs in moist to dry sandy soils.
 Bulrush(Scirpus)
Bulrushes is the vernacular name for several large wetland grass-like plants in the sedge family (Cyperaceae)

Scleria(Scleria Testecae)
Scleria is a genus of flowering plants in the sedge family, Cyperaceae. They are known commonly
as nutrushes.[1] They are distributed throughout the tropical world, and some have ranges extending
into temperate areas.[2] There are about 200 species.[2][3]
 Kobresia(Kobresia simpliciuscula)
Kobresia is a genus of plants in the sedge family. They are sometimes called bog sedges. These perennial
sedges are quite similar to Carex species in appearance. The genus is widespread across much
of Europe, Asia and North America, with many species native to the Himalayas.

Baumea(Baumea Rubiginosa)
aumea is a genus of the sedge family, which includes around 30 species native to Madagascar and the Pacific
Islands, with 15 species in Australia. All are perennial rhizomatous herbs, with leaves and stems very similar
in appearance. The inflorescence is terminal, with the flowers tightly clustered or loosely arranged. The fruits
are small nuts.
 Oneseed Bur Cucumber (Sicyos Angulatus)
Sicyos angulatus, the oneseed bur cucumber[2] or star-cucumber is an annual vine in the gourd
family, Cucurbitaceae, native to eastern North America. The plant forms mats or climbs using tendrils. The
leaves are palmately veined and lobed, the flowers are green to yellowish green, and the fruits form clusters of
very small pepos.

Butterfly Weed (Asclepias tuberosa)

Asclepias tuberosa, the butterfly weed, is a species of milkweed native to eastern North America. It is
commonly known as butterfly weed because of the butterflies that are attracted to the plant by its color and its
copious production of nectar. It is also the larval food plant of the queen and monarch butterflies, as well as
the dogbane tiger moth, milkweed tussock moth, and the unexpected cycnia[2]. Hummingbirds, bees and other
insects are also attracted.
 Chickweed (Stellaria media)
Stellaria media, chickweed, is an annual flowering plant in the carnation family Caryophyllaceae. It is native
to Europe, but naturalized in many parts of North America. It is used as a cooling herbal remedy, and grown as
a vegetable crop and ground cover for both human consumption and poultry. It is sometimes called common
chickweed to distinguish it from other plants called chickweed. Other common names
include chickenwort, craches, maruns, and winterweed. The plant germinates in autumn or late winter, then
forms large mats of foliage.

Milk Weed (Asclepias)

Asclepias is a genus of herbaceous, perennial, flowering plants known as milkweeds, named for their latex, a
milky substance containing cardiac glycosides termed cardenolides, exuded where cells are damaged. Most
species are toxic. The genus contains over 200 species distributed broadly across Africa, North America, and
South America. It previously belonged to the family Asclepiadaceae, which is now classified as
the subfamily Asclepiadoideae of the dogbane family, Apocynaceae.
 Prostrate Knotweed (Polygonum aviculare)
Polygonum aviculare or common knotgrass is a plant related to buckwheat and dock. It is also
called prostrate knotweed, birdweed, pigweed and lowgrass. It is an annual found in fields and wasteland,
with white flowers from June to October. It is widespread across many countries in temperate regions,
apparently native to Eurasia and North America, naturalized in temperate parts of the Southern Hemisphere.

Chicory(Chichorium Intybus)
Common chicory, Cichorium  intybus,[4] is a somewhat woody, perennial herbaceous plant of the dandelion
family Asteraceae, usually with bright blue flowers, rarely white or pink. Many varieties are cultivated
for salad leaves, chicons (blanched buds), or roots (var. sativum), which are baked, ground, and used as
a coffee substitute and food additive. In the 21st century, inulin, an extract from chicory root, has been used in
food manufacturing as a sweetener and source of dietary fiber.
 Bramble(Rubus)
A bramble is any rough, tangled, prickly shrub, usually in the genus Rubus, the blackberries and raspberries
and dewberries.[1] "Bramble" is also used to describe other prickly shrubs such as roses (Rosa species).
[1]
 Bramble or brambleberry sometimes refers to the blackberry fruit or products of its fruit, such as bramble
jelly.

Creeping Thistle(Cirsium arvense)

Cirsium arvense is a perennial species of flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native
throughout Europe and northern Asia, and widely introduced elsewhere.[2][3][4] The standard English name in its
native area is creeping thistle.[5] It is also commonly known as Canada thistle and field thistle.
 Silver Grass (Miscanthus sinensis)
Miscanthus sinensis, the maiden silvergrass,[1] is a species of flowering plant in the
grass family Poaceae, native to eastern Asia throughout most of China, Japan, Taiwan and Korea. It is
an herbaceous perennial grass, growing to 0.8–2 m (3–7 ft) tall, rarely 4 m (13 ft), forming dense clumps from
an underground rhizome. The leaves are 18–75 cm (7–30 in) tall and 0.3–2 cm broad. The flowers are purplish,
held above the foliage. This plant is the preferred structure for the nesting of some species of paper wasps,
such as Ropalidia fasciata.

Scutch Grass (Elymus Repens)

widely distributed grass, Cynodon dactylon, with wiry creeping rootstocks and several purplish spikes of
flowers arising from a single point: used for lawns, pasturage, binding sand dunes, etc. Also
called: scutch grass, wire grass.
 Needle Grass (Stipa)
any of several grasses of the genus Stipa (especially S. comata) of the western U.S. with filiform leaves
and slender awns on the spikelet.

Bermuda Grass (Cynodon Dactylon)

Bermuda grass is a perennial lawn or turf grass, or grown as forage (pastures). It needs sun and grows
well in tropical, sub-tropical and the transition zones like in Southern US, South America, Australia,
Africa, India etc. The color of this grass is usually dark green and spreads by rhizomes and stolons.
 Panicum virgatum(Panicum virgatum)
Panicum virgatum, commonly known as switchgrass, is a perennial warm season bunchgrass native to North
America, where it occurs naturally from 55°N latitude in Canada southwards into the United
States and Mexico. Switchgrass is one of the dominant species of the central North American tallgrass
prairie and can be found in remnant prairies, in native grass pastures, and naturalized along roadsides. It is
used primarily for soil conservation, forage production, game cover, as an ornamental grass,
in phytoremediation projects, fiber, electricity, heat production, for biosequestration of atmospheric carbon
dioxide, and more recently as a biomass crop for ethanol and butanol.

Barnyard Grass (Echinochloa)

Echinochloa is a very widespread genus of plants in the grass family and tribe Paniceae.[3][4][5] Some of the
species are known by the common names barnyard grass or cockspur grass.
 Setaria Grass(Setaria sphacelata)
Setaria sphacelata is a tall African grass, also known as South African pigeon grass[2] and African
bristlegrass.[3] It is native to tropical and subtropical Africa, and is extensively cultivated globally as
a pasture grass and for cut fodder.[2][4] This is a rhizomatous perennial grass producing flattened, hairless, blue-
green stems up to 2 m tall. The inflorescence is a dense, narrow panicle of bristly, orange-tinged spikelets up to
25 cm long.

Giant Reed (Arundo donax)

Arundo donax is a tall perennial cane. It is one of several so-called reed species. It has several common names
including giant cane, carrizo, arundo, Spanish cane, Colorado river reed, wild cane, and giant reed.
Arundo donax grows in damp soils, either fresh or moderately saline, and is native to the Mediterranean
Basin and Middle East,[2] and probably also parts of Africa and the southern Arabian Peninsula. It has been
widely planted and naturalised in the mild temperate, subtropical and tropical regions of both hemispheres
(Herrera & Dudley 2003), especially in the Mediterranean, California, the western Pacific and the Caribbean.[3]
[4]
 It forms dense stands on disturbed sites, sand dunes, in wetlands and riparian habitats.
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COMPETENCY 4

“CONTROL OF WEEDS”
Prepared by:

KIAN KELLY CABOTAGE