OTPS Weed Identify 2025/2026 Exam
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Large Crabrass - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Summer Annual. Germination-Late
March to early April. Fibrous Root System and roots at lower nodes. Lower
sterns flattened, pale green, with hairy sheaths that form unsighly patches
Goosegrass - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Summer Annual. Silver crabgrass. Thrives in
compacted soil areas. Germination may be 4 to 6 weeks later than
crabgrass. Fibrous root system and roots at lower nodes. Lower sterns
strongly flattened and crown is silver-white. At maturity, 4 to 5 flattened-like
seed heads produced at end of sterns
, Prostrate Spurge - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Summer Annual broad leaf weed.
Prostrate, spreading weed common in waste places. Late germinating
weed (later spring to early summer). Leaves and sterns purple to green in
color Plants have white milky (latex) sap. Tiny, inconspicuous, pinkish-
white flowers are produced and many seeds
Gripe weed - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Often referred to as "little mimosa" or
"chamber bitter". Summer annual broadleaf weed. Upright frowning with
strong taproot. Round capsule at base of each leaf. Each capsule contains
6 weeds
Annual Lespedeza - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Summer annual broadleaf weed.
Japanese clover. Prostrate, spreading growth habit with strong taproot.
Plants are tough, wiry, dark green resembling clover. Looks like barbed
wire with small brown stipules at each node. Leaves consist of 3 leaflets
with distinct white parallel veins. Very small pinkish-purple flowers at each
node
Annual Bluegrass - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Also known as Poa. Low growing plant
with fine stems and leaves. Leaf blades are week and are boat-shaped at
tip. Grows in clumps which merge into large patches in early spring.
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Already Graded A+
Large Crabrass - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Summer Annual. Germination-Late
March to early April. Fibrous Root System and roots at lower nodes. Lower
sterns flattened, pale green, with hairy sheaths that form unsighly patches
Goosegrass - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Summer Annual. Silver crabgrass. Thrives in
compacted soil areas. Germination may be 4 to 6 weeks later than
crabgrass. Fibrous root system and roots at lower nodes. Lower sterns
strongly flattened and crown is silver-white. At maturity, 4 to 5 flattened-like
seed heads produced at end of sterns
, Prostrate Spurge - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Summer Annual broad leaf weed.
Prostrate, spreading weed common in waste places. Late germinating
weed (later spring to early summer). Leaves and sterns purple to green in
color Plants have white milky (latex) sap. Tiny, inconspicuous, pinkish-
white flowers are produced and many seeds
Gripe weed - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Often referred to as "little mimosa" or
"chamber bitter". Summer annual broadleaf weed. Upright frowning with
strong taproot. Round capsule at base of each leaf. Each capsule contains
6 weeds
Annual Lespedeza - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Summer annual broadleaf weed.
Japanese clover. Prostrate, spreading growth habit with strong taproot.
Plants are tough, wiry, dark green resembling clover. Looks like barbed
wire with small brown stipules at each node. Leaves consist of 3 leaflets
with distinct white parallel veins. Very small pinkish-purple flowers at each
node
Annual Bluegrass - 🧠 ANSWER ✔✔Also known as Poa. Low growing plant
with fine stems and leaves. Leaf blades are week and are boat-shaped at
tip. Grows in clumps which merge into large patches in early spring.
