| Key Characteristics |
Weed |
Best Control Advice |
Large underground rhizomes.
Leaves smooth, ligule & auricles very short. |
Common couch |
Treat in set-aside, pre-harvest or autumn stubble.
Beware light soils pre-harvest.
Use label rate appropriate to plant population. |
Short underground rhizomes.
Leaves striate, long-toothed ligule. |
Great/ black bent |
Treat in set-aside, early pre-harvest or autumn stubble.
Use highest label rate.
Beware lighter drought-prone soils. |
Stolons along soil surface.
Leaves striate, with long narrow ligule |
Creeping bent grass |
Treat in set-aside, early pre-harvest or autumn stubble.
Use highest label rate.
Beware lighter drought-prone soils. |
Bulbils in chain 2-6 units long.
Leaves keeled, long torn ligule.
Tufted. |
Onion couch |
Treat in set-aside, early pre-harvest or autumn stubble.
Use highest label rate, or a split sequence through the season.
Beware lighter drought-prone soils.
Treat seedlings in stale-seedbed or in-crop with IPU/clodinafop. |
Leaves softly hairy, striate, no auricles.
Leaf sheaths hairy, often violet striped.
Tufted with simple roots. |
Yorkshire fog |
Treat in set-aside, early pre-harvest or autumn stubble.
Avoid low water volumes.
Use highest label rate.
Beware lighter drought-prone soils. |
Leaves softly hairy, striate, no auricles.
Leaf sheaths hairy, white or brown.
Tufted with short underground rhizomes |
Creeping soft grass |
Treat in set-aside, early pre-harvest or autumn stubble.
Avoid low water volumes.
Use highest label rate.
Beware lighter drought-prone soils. |
