Alabama OTPS Weed Identification Test 100% Verified Questions And
Answers 2026!!
1. Musk Thistle - Biennial
- Leaves are dark green with light green midribs & white margins
- Stems have sharp spines and spiny wings
- Flower heads are large, solitary, and disk-shaped
2. Prostrate Spurge - Summer annual broad leaf weed
- Prostrate, spreading weed common in waste places
- Late germinating weed (later spring to early summer)
- Leaves and stems purple to green in color (sometimes spotted)
- Plants have white milky (latex) sap
- Tiny, pinkish-white flowers are produced and many seeds
3. Annual Bluegrass - Winter annual
- Low growing plant with fine stems and leaves
- Grows in clumps in early spring
- Whitish-green colored seed heads
- Dies unsightly patches in late spring
4. Wild Garlic - Perennial weed with 3 methods of reproduction
- Hollow stem with 2 or 3 round hollow leaves developing from basal bulb
- Basal bulb covered by thin, whitish papery coat
- At maturity, small yellow bulbs or bulblets over the basal bulb below ground
- Above ground, aerial bulblets are produced at the tips of stems and greenish-pink
small flowers
5. Yellow Nutsedge - Perennial sedge
- Slender, triangular, pale green stems up to 24 inches tall
- Most leaves basal except for yellow seed head
- Leaves have sharp pointed "hypodermic" tip
- Plants reproduce by seeds, rhizomes, and tubers
6. Florida Betony - Perennial broadleaf weed
- Also called "rattlesnake weed"
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Answers 2026!!
1. Musk Thistle - Biennial
- Leaves are dark green with light green midribs & white margins
- Stems have sharp spines and spiny wings
- Flower heads are large, solitary, and disk-shaped
2. Prostrate Spurge - Summer annual broad leaf weed
- Prostrate, spreading weed common in waste places
- Late germinating weed (later spring to early summer)
- Leaves and stems purple to green in color (sometimes spotted)
- Plants have white milky (latex) sap
- Tiny, pinkish-white flowers are produced and many seeds
3. Annual Bluegrass - Winter annual
- Low growing plant with fine stems and leaves
- Grows in clumps in early spring
- Whitish-green colored seed heads
- Dies unsightly patches in late spring
4. Wild Garlic - Perennial weed with 3 methods of reproduction
- Hollow stem with 2 or 3 round hollow leaves developing from basal bulb
- Basal bulb covered by thin, whitish papery coat
- At maturity, small yellow bulbs or bulblets over the basal bulb below ground
- Above ground, aerial bulblets are produced at the tips of stems and greenish-pink
small flowers
5. Yellow Nutsedge - Perennial sedge
- Slender, triangular, pale green stems up to 24 inches tall
- Most leaves basal except for yellow seed head
- Leaves have sharp pointed "hypodermic" tip
- Plants reproduce by seeds, rhizomes, and tubers
6. Florida Betony - Perennial broadleaf weed
- Also called "rattlesnake weed"
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