Important Cropland Weeds in the

Philippines

A. Wetland Fields
Grasses
- Jungle rice Echinochloa
colona
- Barnyard grass Echinochloa
crusgalli spp.
hispidula
Echinochloa
glaberescens
- Sprangle top Leptochloa
chinensis
- Knotgrass Paspalum
distichum B. Dryland Fields
Grasses
Sedges - Southern Cenchur
- Small flower Cyperus sandbur echinatus
umbrella plant difformis - Bermuda grass Cynodon
- Rice flat sedge Cyperus iria dactylon
- Purple Cyperus - Crowfoot grass Dactyloctenium
nutsedge rotundus aegyptium
- Fimbristylis Fimbristylis - Large crabgrass Digitaria ciliaris
littoralis - Jungle rice Echinochloa
- Bulrush Scirpus colona
maritimus - Goosegrass Eleusine indica
- Cogon Imperata
Broadleaves cylindrica
- Water purslane Ludwigia - Paspalidium Paspalidium
octovalvis flavidum
- Pickerel weed Monochoria - Itch grass Rottboellia
vaginalis cochinchinensis
- Water lettuce Pistia stratiotes
- Gooseweed Sphenoclea Sedges
zeylanica - Purple Cyperus
nutsedge rotundus

Broadleaves
- Tropic Ageratum
ageratum conyzoides
- Spiny amaranth Amaranthus
spinosus
- Slender Amaranthus
amaranth viridis
- Beggarsticks Bidens Pilosa
- Celosia Celosia argentea
- Spindle top Cleome
rutidosperma
- Dayflower Commelina
benghalensis

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 - Spreading Commelina
dayflower diffusa
- Eclipta Eclipta prostrata
- Garden spurge Euphorbia hirta
- Indian Heliotropium
heliotrope indicum
- Three-lobe Ipomoea triloba
morning glory
- Lantana Lantana camara
- Sensitive plant Mimosa pudica
- Common Portulaca
purslane oleracea
- Synedrella Synedrella
nodiflora
- Horse purslane Trianthema
portulacastrum
- Tridax Tridax
procumbens
- Little iron weed Vernonia cinerea
Source: AGRI 41 Lab Manual

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