Revised June 2007

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Contents

Weed identification

Summer annual broadleaf

Biennial broadleaf

Perennial broadleaf

Summer annual grass

Winter annual grass

Perennial grass

Plants resembling grasses

Herbicides

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Summer annual broadleaf

Sida, prickly (Sida spinosa)

Prickly sida
Prickly sida

A summer annual with yellow flowers and distinctly toothed leaves. Seedlings have two cotyledons that are generally heart shaped with a small indentation at the cotyledon apexes. The cotyledons and the stems below the cotyledons (hypocotyls) are covered with short hairs. Mature plants have leaves that are arranged alternately along the stem, approximately 3/4 to 2 inches long, and inconspicuously hairy. Leaves are oval to lanceolate in outline with toothed margins. Leaves occur on petioles that are 1/2 to 1-1/4 inches long and have small spines (stipules) at the base of each leaf petiole.

Prickly sida
Wild thing

IPM1007, revised June 2007