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Vegetable Industry #4C: Weeds in the School Garden

Total questions: 19

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the name of this weed?

a)

crabgrass

b)

 nutsedge

c)

dandelion

d)

Bahia

2.

a)

oxalis

b)

crabgrass

c)

amaranth

d)

bahia grass

3.

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

a)

dandelion

b)

amaranth

c)

chamberbitter

d)

common vetch

4.

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,

a)

amaranth

b)

dandelion

c)

crabgrass

d)

chamberbitter

5.

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.

a)

Florida pusley

b)

dandelion

c)

old world diamond flower

d)

dollarweed (pennywort)

6.

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.

a)

weeds

b)

bahia grass

c)

Spanish needles

d)

thistle

7.

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

a)

dovesfoot geranium

b)

dandelion

c)

dollarweed (pennywort)

d)

amaranth

8.

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.

a)

crabgrass

b)

bahia grass

c)

weeds

d)

bittercress

9.

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.

a)

Spanish needles

b)

Asiatic Hawksbeard

c)

bittercress

d)

bahia grass

10.

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

a)

weeds

b)

oxalis

c)

dandelion

d)

amaranth

11.

Herbaceous annual weed with a small purple flower belonging to the wild geranium family.

a)

common vetch

b)

dovesfoot geranium

c)

bermuda grass

d)

bahia grass

12.

A widely distributed herbaceous plant of the daisy family, which typically has a prickly stem and leaves and rounded heads of purple flowers. Important pollinator plants. In North Florida, when the thistles bloom, the trout are running on the flats.

a)

oxalis

b)

thistle

c)

weeds

d)

amaranth

13.

Any of several herbs of the genus Taraxacum having long tap roots and deeply notched leaves and bright yellow flowers followed by fluffy seed balls. Delicious in salads and an important overwintering pollinator plant, but considered an annoying weed in garden beds.

a)

thistle

b)

oxalis

c)

amaranth

d)

dandelion

14.

A perennial weed in a garden setting that can reproduce from seeds or rhizomes. It's stems and roots (which can be very, very long) form joints that easily break when hand-pulling, which only serves to cause it to root more vigorously. A common turf grass.

a)

bahia grass

b)

crabgrass

c)

bittercress

d)

bermuda grass

15.

A perennial weed (in a garden setting) that can emerge from both seeds and rhizomes. An important forage and hay crop for livestock, sometimes used in lawns.

a)

crabgrass

b)

bermuda grass

c)

bahia grass

d)

bittercress

16.

Weeds: perennial weeds that have triangular shaped stems instead of hollow round ones like true grasses. They reproduce through seeds, underground rhizomes that break from their stema, and tubers called "nutlets".

a)

bittercress

b)

nutsedge/nutgrass

c)

crabgrass

d)

bermuda grass

17.

Weedsterm-1: it gets its name because it grows low to the ground with stems that radiate out from the center of the grass clump, resembling crab legs. Grows vigorously in hot, dry conditions, and a single plant produces thousands of seeds that can germinate the following spring.

a)

bahia grass

b)

bermuda grass

c)

oxalis

d)

crabgrass

18.

Weeds: annual weeds that are low-branching with pretty, white, star-shaped flowers. They produce an abundance of seeds, and a single plant can quickly turn into an infestation. This weed is extremely drought tolerant.

a)

Florida pusley

b)

thistle

c)

bermuda grass

d)

oxalis

19.

Undesirable plants that often crowd out crop plants or native plant species and and absorb nutrients and water from their soil. Plant pests.

a)

thistle

b)

amaranth

c)

weeds

d)

oxalis