Annual Broadleaf Weeds

Question 1

Answer 1

Knotweed

Question 2

Answer 2

wood sorrel

Question 3

Answer 3

Pensylvania Smart Weed

Question 4

Answer 4

Cockle Burr

Question 5

Answer 5

Carpetweed

Question 6

Answer 6

Hairy Bittercress

Question 7

Answer 7

Wild Geranium

Question 8

Answer 8

Common Groundsel

Question 9

Answer 9

Mallow

Question 10

Answer 10

Common Chickweed

Question 11

What time of year do winter annuals do most of their growing?

Answer 11

SPRING

Question 12

Knotweed is a Summer or Winter Annual?

Answer 12

Summer Annual

Question 13

Knotweed

what is the growing habbit?

Answer 13

Prostate (outright, low growing) with slender, wirey stems

Question 14

Knotweed

Alternate or opposite leaf growth?

Answer 14

Alternate

Question 15

Wood Sorrel

describe the leaves

Answer 15

perfect heart shaped leaves aranged in 3’s

Question 16

Wood Sorrel

Runner type or clump?

Answer 16

Clump like plant

Question 17

How does Wood Sorrel mainly reproduce?

Answer 17

Seeds

Question 18

What time of year does Wood Sorrel flower and what color are the flowers?

Answer 18

late summer

Yellow

Question 19

This plant has Pinkish to purple flowers on green to reddish stems….

Answer 19

Pensylvania Smart Weed

Question 20

Pensylvania Smart Weed

Winter or Summer Annual?

Answer 20

Summer Annual

Question 21

Catchweed Bedstraw

Summer or Winter Annual?

Answer 21

Can be both…depending on where you live

Question 22

What is important to know about the leaves of the Catchweed Bedstraw?

Where would you normally find this plant on your course?

Answer 22

they are whilrled

unmowed areas

Question 23

Answer 23

Spurge

Question 24

This plant sometimes has spots in the middle of it’s leaves.

Answer 24

Spurge

Question 25

What is the leaf orientation of the stem of a Spurge?

Answer 25

Opposite

Question 26

Hairy Bittercress in an early germinating _______ Annual.

Answer 26

Winter

Question 27

When this plant is kicked or hit with something....the seed heads are projectiles.

Answer 27

Hairy Bittercress

Question 28

Wild Geranium is a ________ annual.

Answer 28

Winter

Question 29

This plant can have stems that are up to 6 feet long and have a square profile especially near the tip.

Answer 29

Catchweed Bedstraw

Question 30

This highly branched, taprooted plant can be 8 inches to 6 feet tall.

Answer 30

Cockle Burr

Question 31

This weed has a sprawling growth habit that forms circular mats.

Answer 31

Carpetweed

Question 32

When does Carpetweed germinate?

Answer 32

Late Summer

Question 33

this plant, When broken or mown exudes a milky, white sap

Answer 33

Spurge

Question 34

Name the Winter Annual Broadleaves:

Answer 34

Hairy Bittercress Wild Geranium Common Groundsel Mallow Common Chickweed

Question 35

This plant has Fibrous Roots and produces white flowers in the spring

Answer 35

Hairy Bittercress

Question 36

Winter Geranium is also known as what?

Answer 36

Carolina Geranium

Question 37

This plant's Flowers are a yellow disk. Each seed is enclosed in the fruit. Soft bristles that easily detach

Answer 37

Common Groundsel

Question 38

Commond Groundsel Mature seedheads look similar to what other weed?

Answer 38

Dandelion

Question 39

This plant has a huge Tap Root

Answer 39

Mallow

Question 40

What weed has Whorled leaves?

Answer 40

Catchweed Bedstraw