Grassy weeds of Chickpea

Agropyron repens (Quak Grass)

• Aggressive perennial grass with long slender white rhizomes.
• Rhizome tips are yellowish and sharp-pointed; base of leaf blade with claw-like appendage that clasps the stem; spikelets, up to 15 cm long, are in 2 long rows borne flat wise to the stem.

                

                          Quak Grass

 

Avena fatua (Wild Oat)

• Annual grass with hollow erect stems from 0.3 to 1 metre tall.
• Leaves of seedlings twist counter-clockwise when viewed from above.
• Yellow to black seeds with a bent, twisted bristle (awn); seeds with a circular scar (sucker mouth) at the base.

            

                       Wild Oat

 

Brachiaria spp. (Para Grass)

• Perennial with a semi-erect growth habit, spreading by rooting from lower culm nodes.
• Leaf blade is linear-triangular in shape, broad, dark green, both abaxial and adaxial surfaces densely covered with long hairs.
• Inflorescence is a panicle 12 cm long, with 4-8 racemes about 6 cm long, and spikelets arranged in two rows on each raceme.

               

                           Para Grass

 

Dactylictenium aegypticum (Makda)

• The stem has a spreading, creeping and mat-forming structure.
• It roots at the lower nodes.
• The flower head has 2-7 spikelets borne at the tip of the stem.
• The seed head looks like a crow's foot, hence the name.
• Each plant may produce up to 60,000 seeds.

                

                              Makda

 

Echinochloa crusgalli (Barnyard Grass-Sava)

• Barnyard grass is a summer annual that propagates by seed.
• It grows in clumps by rooting and branching at the lower joints of the stems.
• It grows 1 to 4 feet tall.
• The stems are smooth and stout, thick and flattened
• The leaves are green with reddish cast, they are flat and 8 to 50 cm long and 8 to 20 mm wide, are smooth on both sides but rough towards the top.
• These are hairless.
• Flower heads are extremely variable, but they often droop slightly with lower flower branches further apart than upper ones.

                   

                                  Sava