Alabama OTPS Study Guide Questions With Verified Answers 2024

Alabama OTPS Study Guide Questions With Verified Answers 2024 Johnsongrass - Correct Answer Coarse Perenial, Does not persist under frequent mowing Mullein - Correct Answer Densely-hairy or woolly biennial (6ft tall) Virginia Buttonweed - Correct Answer Spreading Perennial herb, opposite leaves, lance shaped, white tubular flowers, 4 lobes Curly Dock - Correct Answer Taprooted perennial, reddish brown fruit, 3 wing like projections White clover - Correct Answer Low growing perennials Florida Bettiny - Correct Answer Rattle snake weed Dichondra - Correct Answer Pony foot, creeping perennial Dandelion - Correct Answer Deeply taprooted, perennial, milky juice Chickweed - Correct Answer Mat-forming winter annual Pigweed - Correct Answer Tall annual, erect smooth to hairy stems Wild garlic - Correct Answer Cool season perennial, absence of fibrous coat on central bulb, Annual bluegrass - Correct Answer Clumped winter annual, spikelets Dallisgrass - Correct Answer 3-7 alternating branches of spikeletts Goosegrass - Correct Answer Crowfoot, silver crabgrass Southern crabgrass - Correct Answer Spreading summer annual, 2-9 fingerlike spikelets Smooth crabgrass - Correct Answer 2-6 fingerlike spikelets, spreading summer annual Purple nutsedge - Correct Answer Rapid spreading, perennial, 3 ranked basal leaves, seed head purple to reddish brown Yellow nutsedge - Correct Answer Perennial, yellowish-brown seedhead Billbugs - Correct Answer Main Pest of zoysia and Bermudagrass White grubs - Correct Answer C-shaped Mole crickets - Correct Answer Most destructive insect Pest on alabama turf, $7 million, tawny, southern Tanner mole cricket - Correct Answer Tan, V shaped Southern mole cricket - Correct Answer Gray, U shaped Cutworms - Correct Answer Feed at night, hide at day Chinch bugs - Correct Answer St augustinegrass, rice size, Sod web worms - Correct Answer Small green fecal pellets, chew off grass just above thatch line. Armyworms - Correct Answer Feed anytime of day, ash grey moths, birds Sedges - Correct Answer Triangular stems Broadleaves - Correct Answer Showy flower and netlike veins Grasses - Correct Answer Hollow rounded stems Ground pearl - Correct Answer Under ground, scale, feed on roots, cultural control only Grey leaf spot - Correct Answer St Augustinegrass Dollar spot - Correct Answer Sclerotinia homeocarpa, summer and early fall Leaf spot - Correct Answer Bermudagrass Brown patch - Correct Answer Most damaging warm season turf grass, rhizoctonia solani Spring dead spot - Correct Answer Bermudagrass