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WorksheetsVegetable Industry #4C: Weeds in the School Garden
Total questions: 19
Worksheet time: 10mins
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
Herbaceous annual weed with a small purple flower belonging to the wild geranium family.
common vetch
dovesfoot geranium
bermuda grass
bahia grass
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.
oxalis
thistle
weeds
amaranth
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.
thistle
oxalis
amaranth
dandelion
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.
bahia grass
crabgrass
bittercress
bermuda grass
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.
crabgrass
bermuda grass
bahia grass
bittercress
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".
bittercress
nutsedge/nutgrass
crabgrass
bermuda grass
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.
bahia grass
bermuda grass
oxalis
crabgrass
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.
Florida pusley
thistle
bermuda grass
oxalis
Undesirable plants that often crowd out crop plants or native plant species and and absorb nutrients and water from their soil. Plant pests.
thistle
amaranth
weeds
oxalis
