Right of way pesticide Final exam with correct
Questions and Answers 2024-2025
What are some allelopathy species?
Quack-grass and common sunflower
Why are right of way pests important to manage?
Make sure the ROW is safe, usable, attractive, economical to maintain, and not harmful to the
environment of the surrounding area
Where is shading often used as a control?
Aquatics
How is mowing beneficial
Reduces competition between weeds and desirable plants, prevents flowering and seeding of annual
or biennial weeds
How has the attitude changed towards control of veg in ROW?
A more selective approach is taken now; some species undesirable and some are desirable
Why is it important to protect wetlands?
Provide wildlife habitat, minimize erosion, improve water quality, act as water storage during
flooding, and provide recreational activity
,Describe
Grasses
Sedges
Herbaceous broadleaves
Vines
Brush and trees
Ferns
Parasitic seed plants
Grasses: Ex: foxtail; Annual or perennial
Sedges: Triangular stems, 3 rows of leaves Perennial; rhizomes and tubers
Herbaceous broadleaves; Exposed growing points at end of each stem and in each leaf axil
Vines: Japanese honeysuckle, blackberry, poison ivy
Brush: several stems less than 10 feet tall
Tree: woody plants with a single stem over 10 feet
Ferns: Spores and creeping rhizomes; moist soils
Parasitic seed plants: dodders, broomrape, witch weed
What do you need to apply pesticide to aquatic plants?
Permit from DNR
Ash
Alternate, simply compound - round ash leaves
Fruit is dark brown, flat pod
Rough dotted, prickles
Rich moist soil
, Boxelder
Coarsely serrate, like poison ivy but compound leaves
Flat winged seeds
Trunk: purple gray to light brown
Moist soil
Red maple
3-5 lobed with sharp indentations
Opposite leaves
Swamps and stream banks
Sassafras
Dark blue berry
Well drained soils
3 different shaped leaves
Bark is dark red brown, orange when cut with a knife
Wild black cherry
Alternate leaves
Oblong, finely toothed, shiny
Raceme inflorescence
Prefers rich, moist soils but can be found in dry, sandy soils
Questions and Answers 2024-2025
What are some allelopathy species?
Quack-grass and common sunflower
Why are right of way pests important to manage?
Make sure the ROW is safe, usable, attractive, economical to maintain, and not harmful to the
environment of the surrounding area
Where is shading often used as a control?
Aquatics
How is mowing beneficial
Reduces competition between weeds and desirable plants, prevents flowering and seeding of annual
or biennial weeds
How has the attitude changed towards control of veg in ROW?
A more selective approach is taken now; some species undesirable and some are desirable
Why is it important to protect wetlands?
Provide wildlife habitat, minimize erosion, improve water quality, act as water storage during
flooding, and provide recreational activity
,Describe
Grasses
Sedges
Herbaceous broadleaves
Vines
Brush and trees
Ferns
Parasitic seed plants
Grasses: Ex: foxtail; Annual or perennial
Sedges: Triangular stems, 3 rows of leaves Perennial; rhizomes and tubers
Herbaceous broadleaves; Exposed growing points at end of each stem and in each leaf axil
Vines: Japanese honeysuckle, blackberry, poison ivy
Brush: several stems less than 10 feet tall
Tree: woody plants with a single stem over 10 feet
Ferns: Spores and creeping rhizomes; moist soils
Parasitic seed plants: dodders, broomrape, witch weed
What do you need to apply pesticide to aquatic plants?
Permit from DNR
Ash
Alternate, simply compound - round ash leaves
Fruit is dark brown, flat pod
Rough dotted, prickles
Rich moist soil
, Boxelder
Coarsely serrate, like poison ivy but compound leaves
Flat winged seeds
Trunk: purple gray to light brown
Moist soil
Red maple
3-5 lobed with sharp indentations
Opposite leaves
Swamps and stream banks
Sassafras
Dark blue berry
Well drained soils
3 different shaped leaves
Bark is dark red brown, orange when cut with a knife
Wild black cherry
Alternate leaves
Oblong, finely toothed, shiny
Raceme inflorescence
Prefers rich, moist soils but can be found in dry, sandy soils
