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Common weeds

Identify common weeds

Knowing about a weed’s habit, biology, persistence & spread will help you to keep on top of it. Here is detailed information on more than 100 individual weeds, from dandelion to creeping buttercup, bindweed and ground elder.

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  1. Creeping Thistle
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    Creeping thistle

    Creeping thistle, is the most important perennial thistle. It is native in cultivated fields, waste places, hedgerows and grassland throughout the UK and is recorded up to 2,300 ft.

  2. Ground Elder in flower
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    Ground elder

    Ground elder is a rhizomatous perennial weed of waste places and cultivated land. It is recorded up to 1,500 ft in Britain.

  3. The curled dock occurs in arable and meadowland, waste places, on sand dunes, and shingle.
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    Curled dock

    The curled dock occurs in arable and meadowland, waste places, on sand dunes, and shingle. It is the more common dock in arable land especially on drier soils.

  4. Creeping buttercup in flower
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    Creeping buttercup

    A native perennial common in damp meadows, pastures and gardens throughout the UK.

  5. Daisy in flower
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    Daisy

    The daisy is a native perennial abundant throughout the UK, mainly in short turf.

  6. Field bindweed in flower
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    Field bindweed

    A pernicious perennial weed, native in cultivated land, roadsides, railways, grass banks and in short turf.

  7. Dandelion in flower next to one that's done to seed
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    Dandelion

    A perennial with a stout taproot, dandelion is abundant everywhere but prefers chalks and loamy soils above pH 7.0.

  8. Greater plantain leaves
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    Greater plantain

    Greater plantain is a native perennial weed of disturbed habitats, roadsides, grassland, on tracks, waste and cultivated ground. It occurs throughout the UK on a range of soils and is almost always associated with the activities of man.

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    Hedge bindweed

    Hedge bindweed is a rhizomatous and stoloniferous perennial with long climbing stems that clamber up and over hedges. It is often a weed of gardens where it climbs over fruit trees, vegetable crops and herbaceous plants.

  10. Cow parsley in flower
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    Cow parsley

    Cow parsley is variously described as an annual, a biennial, or as a short-lived monocarpic or polycarpic perennial. It is native in grassy places, hedgerows and wood-margins, and is abundant through most of Britain.