WEEDS

By: JOB D. LUCERO, LPT

WEED
It is any plant or vegetation, excluding
fungi, interfering with the objectives or
requirements of people.
It is a plant that is especially successful at
colonizing and proliferating disturbed sites
It is a plant growing where it is not wanted.
Yellow Foxtail
Ground Ivy
Yellow Nutsedge
WEED MANAGEMENT
To effectively manage weeds you should know:
a. What weed you are dealing with?
b. What is the impact of the weed?
c. How is the weed develops?
WEEDS CLASSIFICATION
Morphology
It deals on structure and form.
Life cycle
It focus on how the weeds developed.
 MORPHOLOGY
Monocotyledon
One cotyledon or one embryonic leaf
Eg. grasses, sedges, rushes
Dicotyledon
Two cotyledon or broadleaf plants
 GRASSES
A long narrow leaves, parallel
veins, round hollow stem, leaves
are aligned up and down the stems
in 2 rows.
Bayakibok
 Sedges
Similar to grasses but leaves are
aligned up and down the stem in 3
rows, stems are solid and triangular.
 Broadleaved
Leaves have various shapes and
arrangement of veins, leaves are
wider than those of grasses and
sedges.