Weed datasheets

Creeping thistle, is the most important perennial thistle. It is native in cultivated fields, waste places, hedgerows and grassland throughout the UK and is recorded up to 2,300 ft.

Ground elder is a rhizomatous perennial weed of waste places and cultivated land. It is recorded up to 1,500 ft in Britain.

The curled dock occurs in arable and meadowland, waste places, on sand dunes, and shingle. It is the more common dock in arable land especially on drier soils.

A native perennial common in damp meadows, pastures and gardens throughout the UK.

The daisy is a native perennial abundant throughout the UK, mainly in short turf.

A pernicious perennial weed, native in cultivated land, roadsides, railways, grass banks and in short turf.

A perennial with a stout taproot, dandelion is abundant everywhere but prefers chalks and loamy soils above pH 7.0.

Greater plantain is a native perennial weed of disturbed habitats, roadsides, grassland, on tracks, waste and cultivated ground. It occurs throughout the UK on a range of soils and is almost always associated with the activities of man.

Hedge bindweed is a rhizomatous and stoloniferous perennial with long climbing stems that clamber up and over hedges. It is often a weed of gardens where it climbs over fruit trees, vegetable crops and herbaceous plants.

Cow parsley is variously described as an annual, a biennial, or as a short-lived monocarpic or polycarpic perennial. It is native in grassy places, hedgerows and wood-margins, and is abundant through most of Britain.