landscape maintenance Study Guide Questions
and Answers
weeds management problems
- reducing the attractiveness of landscaped sites
- increasing fire risk
- damaging infrastructure like paved area
- providing habitat for other pests like insects and rodents
aquatic weed impacts
- reducing the flow of managed waterways like canals or flood control channels
- limiting fishing and boating opportunities
- altering fish habitat by reducing sunlight penetration and oxygen concentrations
monocots
include grasses, rushes, and sedges
dicots
two cotyledons and referred to as broadleaf plants
grass characteristics
- narrow leaves with parallel veins
- hollow stems
- shallow, fibrous root systems
- small or inconspicuous flowers
, sedges characteristics
- solid stems
- fibrous root systems
- triangular stem-- edges
- underground storage structures (rhizomes, stolons, or tubers)
broadleaf plant characteristics
- broader or wider leaves than grasses
- branching leaf veins
- deep and spreading roots
- often have large or even showy flowers
3 growth stage of plants
1. seedling
2. vegetative: the stage when most growth take place
3. reproductive: the stage when flowers, fruits and seeds are produced
plant life cycles
annuals, biennials, perennials
annuals
complete their life cycle from seed germination to death in one year or less. Best controlled in
the seedling or early vegetative stages
biennials
and Answers
weeds management problems
- reducing the attractiveness of landscaped sites
- increasing fire risk
- damaging infrastructure like paved area
- providing habitat for other pests like insects and rodents
aquatic weed impacts
- reducing the flow of managed waterways like canals or flood control channels
- limiting fishing and boating opportunities
- altering fish habitat by reducing sunlight penetration and oxygen concentrations
monocots
include grasses, rushes, and sedges
dicots
two cotyledons and referred to as broadleaf plants
grass characteristics
- narrow leaves with parallel veins
- hollow stems
- shallow, fibrous root systems
- small or inconspicuous flowers
, sedges characteristics
- solid stems
- fibrous root systems
- triangular stem-- edges
- underground storage structures (rhizomes, stolons, or tubers)
broadleaf plant characteristics
- broader or wider leaves than grasses
- branching leaf veins
- deep and spreading roots
- often have large or even showy flowers
3 growth stage of plants
1. seedling
2. vegetative: the stage when most growth take place
3. reproductive: the stage when flowers, fruits and seeds are produced
plant life cycles
annuals, biennials, perennials
annuals
complete their life cycle from seed germination to death in one year or less. Best controlled in
the seedling or early vegetative stages
biennials
