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Pistachio > Year-Round IPM Program > Perennial Weeds
Pistachio
Perennial Weeds
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- Bermudagrass
- Field bindweed
- Johnsongrass
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- Purple nutsedge
- Strawberry clover
- White clover
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Click on photos to enlarge. Use the photos below to identify weeds in the field. Names link to more on identification and biology.
Bermudagrass
(Cynodon dactylon): Grass family; first leaves with somewhat rough surface; ligule surrounded by ring of hairs with tuft of long hairs on either side; auricles absent; stem flat, wiry, and without hairs. |
Field bindweed
(Convolvulus arvensis): Morningglory family; with most new shoots and seedlings emerging in spring; seed leaves nearly square, with shallow notch at tip; early true leaves spade shaped; petioles flattened. |
Johnsongrass
(Sorghum halepense): Grass family; persists and spreads via underground stems (rhizomes), which are thick, fleshy, and segmented; roots and shoots can rise from each rhizome segment; leaves have a prominent whitish midvein. |
Purple nutsedge
(Cyperus rotundus): Sedge family; (young plant shown here) young shoot is somewhat stiff, upright, and light green with a fairly prominent whitish midvein; no auricle or ligule; triangular stem solid or pithy and rarely hollow as in grasses. |
Strawberry clover
(Trifolium fragiferum): Pea family; later leaves (shown) divide into three leaflets which are longer and narrower than those of white clover T. repens and lack a white band on the leaflet. |
White clover
(Trifolium repens): Pea family; seed leaves spatulate, smooth; blades taper into petiole; first leaf simple, truncated at base, round to broadly oval; later leaves with 3 leaflets per leaf, smooth, alternate, lower surface gray green, upper surface green; usually light green splotch near base of each leaflet. |
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