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Published on: August 4, 2021
![Figure 1. Mature common chickweed flower and leaves close-up.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/smallgrains/blogfiles/85281small.jpg)
Figure 1. Mature common chickweed flower and leaves close-up.
Common chickweed (Stellaria media) (Figure 1) is a winter annual found throughout California and considered to be one of the most common broadleaf weeds infesting cereal crops (also referred as small grains) in the state (Wilen 2006). Herbicides can provide effective control of chickweed; however, overreliance on a single herbicide (or group of herbicides with the same site of action), is likely to result in resistance to that herbicide (or group of herbicides) (Tranel and Wright 2017). Even though herbicide-resistant common chickweed populations have not been confirmed in California, lack of effective control with post-emergence applications of the ALS-inhibiting herbicides pyroxsulam (Simplicity) and tribenuron (Express...
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Focus Area Tags: Agriculture, Pest Management
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