Weeds Flashcards
Hairy bittercress
Cardimine hirsuta
Groundsel
Senecio vulgaris
Ephemeral
Birds eat seeds
Caterpillars of moths and butterflies
Rusts
Spotted dead nettle
Lamium masculatum
Couch grass
Elymus repens
Common ragwort
Senecio jacobaea
Cinnabar moth
Dandelion
Taraxacum
Bindweed
Calystegia sepium
Broad leafed dock
Rumex obtusifolius
Chickweed
Stellaria media
Ephemeral
Attracts white fly
Stinging nettle
Urtica dioica
Red admiral, peacock, small tortoiseshell
Japanese knotweed
Raynoutria japonica
Wildlife and countryside act 1981
Environmental protection Act 1990
Antisocial behaviour, crime and policing act 2014
The weeds act 1959
Senecio jacobaea
Cirsium arvense
Rumex crispus
Rumex obtusifolius
Acid and alkaline
Sheep’s sorrel
Old man’s beard
Cultural
Quarantine
Crop rotation
Biological insecticides
Two spotted ladybird - aphids
Aphidius spp - parasitic wasp for wasps
BT - bacillus thuringiensis - bacterium which kills caterpillars
Encarsia formosa
Solanum sisymbriifolium