ALABAMA OTPS EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
Winged or wingless; tail pipers or bumps on reared, reproduce
rapidly; wash off with water or soaps/oils - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
Thrips
Disease that attacks dogwoods and maples - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
Anthracnose
Azaleas and other shrubs; feed on underside of leaves; look for black
grainy speck of excrement - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Billbugs
Summer annual broadleaf weed; phyllanthus species; often referred to
as "little mimosa"; each capsule contains 6 seeds -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Gripeweed
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,Summer annual broadleaf weed; Japanese clover; prostrate, spreading
growth habit with strong taproot; plants are tough, wiry, dark green
resembling clover; leaves consist of 3 leaflets with distinct what
parallel veins; very small pinkish-purple flowers at each node - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > Annual lespedeza
Winter annual broadleaf weed; upright square sterns with opposite
leaves; basal rosette of small segmented leaves; sharp pointed
oppressed capsules on stems; distinctive seed dispersal - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > Bittercress
Winter annual broadleaf; Upright square sterns with opposite leaves;
pinkish-purple trumpet-shaped flower in clusters at the end of stems;
early spring blooming weed - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Henbit
Summer annual broad leaf weed; prostrate, spreading weed common
in waste places; late germinating weed; leaves and sterns purple to
green in color (sometimes spotted); plants have white milky (latex)
sap; tiny, inconspicuous, pinkish-white flowers are produced and
many seeds - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Prostate spurge
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, Summer annual grass; silver crabgrass; thrives in compacted soil
area;; germination may be 4 to 6 weeks later than crabgrass; lower
sterns strongly flattened and crown in silver-white; at maturity, 4 or 5
flattened finger-like seed heads produced at end of sterns - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > Goosegrass
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 unsightly patches - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > Large Crabgrass
Winter annual broadleaf weed which roots at nodes; creeping habit of
numerous branched stems forms dense patches; leaves are opposite,
oval shaped, and bright shiny green; white flowers are 5 pedaled
(deeply notched); appearing as 10 petals - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > Chickweed
Winter annual broadleaf weed; simple leaves are deeply divided or
segmented; stems erect and much branched; basal cluster of leaves
with reddish-green hairy stems; bears cluster of white to pale purple
flowers at end of stems - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Carolina geranium
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QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
Winged or wingless; tail pipers or bumps on reared, reproduce
rapidly; wash off with water or soaps/oils - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
Thrips
Disease that attacks dogwoods and maples - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer >
Anthracnose
Azaleas and other shrubs; feed on underside of leaves; look for black
grainy speck of excrement - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Billbugs
Summer annual broadleaf weed; phyllanthus species; often referred to
as "little mimosa"; each capsule contains 6 seeds -
✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Gripeweed
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,Summer annual broadleaf weed; Japanese clover; prostrate, spreading
growth habit with strong taproot; plants are tough, wiry, dark green
resembling clover; leaves consist of 3 leaflets with distinct what
parallel veins; very small pinkish-purple flowers at each node - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > Annual lespedeza
Winter annual broadleaf weed; upright square sterns with opposite
leaves; basal rosette of small segmented leaves; sharp pointed
oppressed capsules on stems; distinctive seed dispersal - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > Bittercress
Winter annual broadleaf; Upright square sterns with opposite leaves;
pinkish-purple trumpet-shaped flower in clusters at the end of stems;
early spring blooming weed - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Henbit
Summer annual broad leaf weed; prostrate, spreading weed common
in waste places; late germinating weed; leaves and sterns purple to
green in color (sometimes spotted); plants have white milky (latex)
sap; tiny, inconspicuous, pinkish-white flowers are produced and
many seeds - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Prostate spurge
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, Summer annual grass; silver crabgrass; thrives in compacted soil
area;; germination may be 4 to 6 weeks later than crabgrass; lower
sterns strongly flattened and crown in silver-white; at maturity, 4 or 5
flattened finger-like seed heads produced at end of sterns - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > Goosegrass
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 unsightly patches - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > Large Crabgrass
Winter annual broadleaf weed which roots at nodes; creeping habit of
numerous branched stems forms dense patches; leaves are opposite,
oval shaped, and bright shiny green; white flowers are 5 pedaled
(deeply notched); appearing as 10 petals - ✔✔✔
Correct Answer > Chickweed
Winter annual broadleaf weed; simple leaves are deeply divided or
segmented; stems erect and much branched; basal cluster of leaves
with reddish-green hairy stems; bears cluster of white to pale purple
flowers at end of stems - ✔✔✔ Correct Answer > Carolina geranium
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