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Common weeds

Identify common weeds

Knowing about a weed’s habit, biology, persistence & spread will help you to keep on top of it. Here is detailed information on more than 100 individual weeds, from dandelion to creeping buttercup, bindweed and ground elder.

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    Corn chamomile

    Corn chamomile is a native annual, locally common on light arable land and waste places throughout the UK.

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    Common poppy

    Common poppy is an annual or overwintering weed native in arable land, roadsides, waste places and other disturbed habitats.

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    Common orache

    Common orache is a native annual weed with an erect to procumbent habit. It is found on disturbed and waste ground throughout the UK and is recorded up to 1,500 ft.

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    Common hemp-nettle

    Common hemp-nettle is an annual weed sometimes plentiful on arable land, and in cornfields.

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    Common fumitory

    A native annual found on cultivated and wasteland throughout the UK. It is not recorded above 1,000 ft.

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    Common field-speedwell

    Common field-speedwell is a decumbent annual weed recorded on cultivated land throughout the UK.

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    Common fiddleneck

    Common fiddleneck or tarweed is an introduced annual weed. It is locally frequent in eastern England especially as a cornfield weed in the Breckland area of East Anglia, where it seems to be increasing.

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    Common chickweed

    Common chickweed, an annual or overwintering native plant, is one of the commonest weeds of cultivated land in the UK.

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    Common amaranth

    Common amaranth is an introduced annual found as a casual weed on cultivated land and in waste places.

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    Cleavers

    Cleavers is a native annual found in fields and hedgerows. It occurs on most soils throughout the UK but prefers nutrient-rich sites.