Weed · wheat
Blind weed
Capsella bursa-pastoris (Linnaeus) MedicusEPPO code CAPBP
- Ukrainian
- грицики звичайні · European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization
- English
- blind weed · European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization
How to recognise it
- Plant
- It is relatively short and stays in the lower and middle tiers of the wheat crop.
When and with what to treat
- When to look
- In spring it can predominate among the weeds in winter wheat crops.
Biology and where it is
- Life form
- A wintering weed. In wheat crops, it completes its life cycle in mid-June.
- A wintering weed with a short growing season.
Sources and how we checked
Every fact rests on a quote from its source, and each quote was checked against the page it is printed on.
- EPPO Global Database · European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization
- Фітосанітарний прогноз Вінницької області на 2025 рік · ГУ Держпродспоживслужби у Вінницькій області
- Зуза В. С., «Гербологія», монографія, 468 с. · Харківський державний біотехнологічний університет; Харків: Стиль-Издат, 2022 · p. 92, 106
- Photos: Scott Loarie, iNaturalist, CC0 1.0 · Luis nunes alberto, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0