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    Sedge weeds of Chickpea:

     Cyperus esculentus: Yellow Nut Sedge (Motha)

• Yellow nutsedge emerges as a pale green spike, similar in appearance to grass seedlings.
• Yellow nut sedge is an erect, grasslike perennial.
• The leaves arise from a central triangular stem to form a clump that grows 1 to 3 feet high.
• Leaves are V-shaped, 3 to 12 mm wide, yellow-green, smooth and shiny or waxy on the upper surface.
• Yellow nutsedge seed heads are straw coloured

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

    Cyperus rotundus: Nut Grass or Coco Grass (Motha)

• Although nutsedges are often referred as "nutgrass"and resemble grasses, they are not grasses but truesedges.
• Their leaves are thicker and stiffer and are arrangedin sets of three at the base.
• Nutsedge stems are solid, and when looked at incross section, they are triangular.
• Nutsedge has three long, leaf like bracts at the baseof each flower head.