Vegetable Industry #4C: Weeds in the School Garden

What is the name of this weed?

• crabgrass

•  nutsedge

• dandelion

• Bahia

• oxalis

• crabgrass

• amaranth

• bahia grass

Vicia sativa, Fabaceae, in the pea family, this weed is a nitrogen fixing legume so is sometimes used as a green manure.

• dandelion

• amaranth

• chamberbitter

• common vetch

This weed's leaves close at night and open during the day, like mimosa, or if disturbd (try pinching it!), giving it the nickname "sensitive plant". Makes lots of seeds and creates an extensive root system,

• amaranth

• dandelion

• crabgrass

• chamberbitter

A spreading summer annual. It has branched stems with opposite, narrow leaves. Flowers are white and occur from midsummer until frost. Reproduction occurs by sticky seed. Found in moist areas, especially areas that have been disturbed.

• Florida pusley

• dandelion

• old world diamond flower

• dollarweed (pennywort)

A warm season annual weed that is an important pollinator throughout the fall in north Florida. Has a bad rep for the sticking seed heads or "needles". Nicknamed tag-a-longs.

• weeds

• bahia grass

• Spanish needles

• thistle

A perennial weed common in areas that are overwatered or are naturally more aquatic. Spreads vegetatively by underground rhizomes.

• dovesfoot geranium

• dandelion

• dollarweed (pennywort)

• amaranth

A cool season annual weed that has cigar shaped seed heads that explode when mature and send seeds 10-12'. Also emerges with a basal rosette.

• crabgrass

• bahia grass

• weeds

• bittercress

An cool season annual weed with a basal rosette of leaves with a long slender flower stalk and yellow flowers that turn ino a puffy seedhead.

• Spanish needles

• Asiatic Hawksbeard

• bittercress

• bahia grass

A perennial weeds that is also called wood sorrell. It's leaves hae a light acidic and peppery taste.

• weeds

• oxalis

• dandelion

• amaranth