Tennessee Pesticide Applicator
Training: WEEDS Category 3 Exam
2025 Questions and Answers
Purple and Yellow Nutsedge - CORRECT ANSWER✔️✔️-Perennials, yellow-green stems, solid
and triangular, long, slender rhizomes germinate in tubers
Dallisgrass - CORRECT ANSWER✔️✔️-Perennial, coarse, hairy leaves produced near the plant
base on shoots that arise from knotty base of short underground rhizomes. Grows in clumps, seed
stalks several feet high. Seed head: 3-6 spikes. Rapid growth in warm weather. Seeds produced in
summer.
Common Bermudagrass - CORRECT ANSWER✔️✔️-Perennial, forms dense mats, spreading and
branching stolons that root at the nodes. leaves are small and smooth with a conspicuous ring of
white hairs at leaf base. Grows best in warm, wet weather, seeds in summer.
Annual Bluegrass - CORRECT ANSWER✔️✔️-Winter annual, flattened stem, grows in tufts,
sometimes takes roots at lower joints. Leaves are very soft, often a lighter green than turfgrass. Seed
heads pyramid shaped. Grows best during cool weather, seeds late spring/early summer.
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Training: WEEDS Category 3 Exam
2025 Questions and Answers
Purple and Yellow Nutsedge - CORRECT ANSWER✔️✔️-Perennials, yellow-green stems, solid
and triangular, long, slender rhizomes germinate in tubers
Dallisgrass - CORRECT ANSWER✔️✔️-Perennial, coarse, hairy leaves produced near the plant
base on shoots that arise from knotty base of short underground rhizomes. Grows in clumps, seed
stalks several feet high. Seed head: 3-6 spikes. Rapid growth in warm weather. Seeds produced in
summer.
Common Bermudagrass - CORRECT ANSWER✔️✔️-Perennial, forms dense mats, spreading and
branching stolons that root at the nodes. leaves are small and smooth with a conspicuous ring of
white hairs at leaf base. Grows best in warm, wet weather, seeds in summer.
Annual Bluegrass - CORRECT ANSWER✔️✔️-Winter annual, flattened stem, grows in tufts,
sometimes takes roots at lower joints. Leaves are very soft, often a lighter green than turfgrass. Seed
heads pyramid shaped. Grows best during cool weather, seeds late spring/early summer.
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