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Management: Weed Science

This document lists and describes many common weed species found across different crop systems. It identifies the top 10 weeds globally according to Holm in 1969 and 1977. For rice systems, important weed species are identified for transplanted/rainfed, dry-seeded, and upland varieties. Key weeds of other crops like sorghum, legumes, yam, bananas, citrus, sunflower and cotton are also outlined.

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Management: Weed Science

This document lists and describes many common weed species found across different crop systems. It identifies the top 10 weeds globally according to Holm in 1969 and 1977. For rice systems, important weed species are identified for transplanted/rainfed, dry-seeded, and upland varieties. Key weeds of other crops like sorghum, legumes, yam, bananas, citrus, sunflower and cotton are also outlined.

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Management

Trivial

Weed
science

Survival
Strategies Basics
Comparative Definitions

• Weed = unwanted plant


• Noxious Weed = a plant identified
by the government as such
• Environmental Weed = a plant
that affects the natural ecosystem
• Agricultural Weed = a plant that
affects the production of grain
crops and pasture lands


Talahib or cogon?????
• Talahib or wild sugar cane
_ Saccharum spontaneum
• Kugon or cogon grass
_ Imperata cylindrica
Tanglad or Citronella
• Tanglad or lemon grass
_ Cymbopogon citratus
• Citronella
_ Cymbopogon nardus
Amaranthus species

• A. spinosus
• A. viridis
• A. retroflexus
Top 3 Rice Weeds
Ischaemum rugosum
Echinochloa crusgalli
Echinochloa colona
Leptochloa chinensis
Top 3 Onion Weeds
Cyperus iria
Portulaca oleracea
Trianthema portulacastrum
Corn Weeds
• Ipomoea triloba

• Echinochloa colona

• Cyperus rotundus
World’s Worst Weed

Holm, 1969

1. Cyperus rotundus L.
2. Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers
3. Echinochloa crus-galli (L.) P. Beauv.
4. Echinochloa colona (L.)
5. Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.
6. Panicum maximum
7. Sorghum halepense
8. Imperata cylindrica (L.) Raeuschel
9. Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms
10.Lantana camara
World’s Worst Weed

Holm et al. 1977
1. Cyperus rotundus L. 11. Digitaria sanguinalis
2. Cynodon dactylon (L.) (L.) Scop.
Pers 12. Convolvulus arvensis L.
3. Echinochloa crus-galli 13. Avena fatua L. and
(L.) P. Beauv. relatives
4. Echinochloa colona (L.) 14. Amaranthus hybbridus
5. Eleusine indica (L.) L.
Gaertn. 15. Amaranthus spinosus L.
6. Sorghum halepense 16. Cyperus esculentus L.
7. Imperata cylindrica (L.) 17. Paspalum conjugatum
Raeuschel Berg
8. Eichhornia crassipes 18. Rottboellia
(Mart.) Solms cochinchinensis (Lour.)
9. Portulaca oleracea L. W.D. Clayton
10. Chenopodium album L.
Important Weeds in Rice (Transplanted/Rainfed)

• Cyperus difformis
• Complex of Echinochloa crus-galli
• Leptochloa spp.
• Monochoria vaginalis (Burm.f.) Presl.
• Paspalum distichum L.
• Scirpus spp.
• Sphenoclea zeylanica Gaertn.
Important Weeds in Rice 

(Dry-seeded)

• Commelina diffusa Burm .f.


• Cyperus iria L.
• Echinochloa colona (L.) Link
• Ischaemum rugosum Salisb.
• Wild and weedy (red) rices
Important Weeds in Rice (Upland)


• Ageratum conyzoides L.
• Amaranthus spinosus L.
• Commelina benghalensis L.
• Cyperus rotundus L.
• Digitaria spp.
• Echinochloa colona
• Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.
• Portulaca oleracea L.
• Rottboellia cochinchinensis (Lour.) W.D.
Clayton
Sorghum weeds

• Striga ( a hemi-root parasitic weed0


• Sorghum halepense
• Rottboellia cochinchinensis
• Cyperus rotundus
• Cynodon dactylon
Weeds of Legumes
• Amaranthus spp.
• Bidens pilosa
• Tridax procumbens
• Euphorbia heterophylla
• Mimosa pudica
• Portulaca oleracea
• Cenchrus
• Digitaria spp.
• Eleusine indica
• Echinochloa colona
• Rottboellia cochinchinensis
• Sorghum halepense
• Cynodon dactylon
• Cyperus rotundus
Weeds of Yam (Ube)

• Imperata cylindrica
• Cynodon dactylon
Weeds of Bananas and Plantains

• Cynodon dactylon
• Digitaria spp.
• Panicum maximum
• Cyperus rotundus
• Commelina spp.
• Chromolaena odorata
• Convolvulus spp.
• Ipomoea triloba
Weeds of Citrus

• Scoparia dulcis
• Setaria sp.
• Solanum sp.
Weeds of Sunflower (& other oil crops)

• Cyperus rotundus
• Cynodon dactylon
• Sorghum halepense
• Imperata cylindrica
Weeds of Cotton

• Cenchrus echinatus
• Bidens pilosa
Sugar Cane Weeds

• Echinochloa colona
• Eleusine indica
• Digitaria sanguinalis & D. ciliaris
• Brachiaria fasciculata & B. platyphylla
• Portulaca oleracea
• Amaranthus spp.
• Ageratum conyzoides
• Euphorbia heterophylla
• Cleome viscosa
• Sonchus oleraceus
• Panicum maximum
• Paspalum spp.
• Ipomoea spp
#1 Tobacco WEED

• Orobanche ramosa & O. cernua (root-


parasitic broomrapes)

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