Botanical Names of Common Weeds With Characteristics



Botanical Names of Common Weeds With their Characteristics have been a research work for students both in the high institutions and secondary schools, and here am going to introduce to you a good number of them to help you in your research.

HERE ARE BOTANICAL NAMES OF COMMON WEEDS WITH THEIR CHARACTERISTICS

COMMON NAME
BOTANICAL NAMES
CHARACTERISTICS


American Black Nightshade

 Solanum americanum
Black nightshade are found anywhere in the world where there are weeds. It occupies gardens, yards, agricultural fields, construction sites. American Black nightshade berries are edible, abundant, wide spread.


Knotweed


Polygonum aviculare
Knotweed is weed known as an herbaceous perennial and is part of the same family as rhubarb and buckwheat weeds.
It is highly invasive weed



Yellow woodsorrel



Oxalis stricta
Yellow woodsorrel is a herbaceous weed which is native to North America, parts of Eurasia, and has a rare introduction in Britain. this weed tends to grow in woodlands, meadows, and in disturbed areas as both a perennial and annual.[5] Erect when young



Barnyardgrass



Echinochloa crusgalli
Barnyardgrass can mature in as little as 42 days producing some 40,000 seeds on each plant. It is a severe problem in any field where rice production is going on as one plant per square of the field can reducing production 25%
Nimblewill
Muchlenbergia schreberi
The seedhead of Nimblewill is a spike-like panicle, each spike contains a single seed with a long awn (bristle)


Yellow Foxtail


Setaria glauca
Yellow foxtail is annual weeds which commonly invade Michigan turfs. Yellow foxtail can be difficult to distinguish from other grasses like crabgrass at the young age.
White Clover
Trifolium repens
White Clover is a herbaceous perennial weed belonging to the bean family Fabaceae and native to Europe and central Asia. White Clover has been widely introduced worldwide as a yard crop, and is currently common in grassy areas

Angle-pod Blue Flag

Iris hexagona
Angle-pod Blue Flag is a blue to lilac iris
Blackroot
Pterocaulon pycnostachyum
Black root has a bitter and nauseating taste. Its underground stem (rhizome) and the root have a medicinal value. Black root can be used for ongoing constipation and disorders of the liver and gallbladder.



Buckhorn plantain



Plantago lanceolata
Buckhorn plantain is a common weed of cultivated land. Belongs to species of genus Plantago known by the common names English plantain, narrowleaf plantain, ribwort plantain, ribleaf, buckhorn plantain, buckhorn, and lamb’s tongue.
Goosegrass
Eleusine indica
Goosegrass is an exotic weed that can either grow on fields, roadsides, yards and disturbed areas throughout the world. Goosegrass long, spreading spikes resemble goose feet.
Butterweed
Packera glabella
Butterweed is an upright, succulent annual, smooth, 18-20 in hight. Stout stems are a time branched or unbranched and are topped by a large cluster of yellow, daisy-like flowers.
Lizard’s tail
Saururus cernuus
Lizard’s tail belonges to the Group Dicot and the Family of Saururaceae Lizard’s tail Perennial in nature its Growth Habit is Forb/herb
Arrowleaf sida
Sida rhombifolia
Arrowleaf sida is a perennial or most times annual weed belonging to the Family of Malvaceae, native to the New World tropics and subtropics. Its stems are erect to sprawling and branched, growing 50 to 120 centimeters in height.



Common chickweed



Stellaria media
is an Annual weed which occurs in a wide range of habitats ranging from lawns and field crops to the floor of deciduous forests, Stems are prostrate to semi-erect.Its leaves are opposite (2 per node), oval with pointed tips and smooth or slightly hairy.

Orchargrass

Dactylis glomerata
Orchardgrass is a perennial bunchgrass which is characterized by its flattened leaf sheath, tall membranous ligule, no aurice is present in it, and blue-green blades with a V-shape. Its Seedhead is an open panicle. Orchardgrass produces fibrous root system.
Flag paw paw
Asimina incana
Flag paw paw is a species in the genus Asimina which contains approximately 10 to 14 species and belongs to the family of the Annonaceae (Custard-apple Family).The shrubs reach heights of 1 to 1,5 metres.Its leaves is deciduous. The simple leaves are alternate. They are obovate, entire and petiolate
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