Weed datasheets

Creeping bent is a stoloniferous perennial grass that is native in damp arable fields and grassland, in gardens, on rough ground, in ditches and in many habitats by water.

Common couch is a native perennial grass found throughout the British Isles. It grows on most soil types except those with a low pH.

Common bent is a native rhizomatous, perennial grass, common and widely distributed particularly on acid grassland, damp soils, meadows, pasture and rough ground.

Information on habit, biology, persistence & spread for Cock's-foot.

Weed beet occurs as a weed in sugar beet and a range of other crops. It is also found on wasteland and on the verges of newly constructed roads.

Potatoes are often seen growing as casuals on tips and waste ground but it is the volunteer potatoes found in arable fields that are the weed problem.

Volunteer oilseed rape infestations result from the significant seed losses that occur in both spring and winter oilseed rape crops due to shedding before and during harvest.

Volunteer cereals arise from seed shed at or before crop harvest. In barley the whole ear may break off while in wheat individual grains tend to fall from the spikelet.

A native, perennial, rhizomatous grass, black bent is a serious weed of arable land. It is distributed throughout the British Isles but is commonest in the south and east.

Bramble is a woody perennial with long spiny stems that may be biennial to perennial. It is native in a range of natural and man-made habitats.