Alopecurus myosuroides
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 Blackgrass in a Barley crop
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Alopecurus myosuroides also known as Slender Meadow Foxtail, Black-Grass, Twitch Grass, Black Twitch.
In the UK, where it is known to farmers as black-grass, it is a major weed of cereal crops and has developed resistance to a range of herbicides used to control it. It can occur at very high densities competing with the crop and seriously reducing the yield of crops such as wheat and barley if not controlled.
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