Family:CAPPARIDACEA
Weed description
The plant is erect and sparingly branched. It grows to a height of 2 feet or more. It is easily distinguished by the various nature of the whole plant, the 3-5 folio late leaves and yellow flowers. Stem is somewhat round, striate and densely covered with glandular hairs. Leaves are alternate, digitately compound with 3-5 obovate leaflets, the middle one being the largest. Flowers are arranged in elongate racemes at the tops of branches and they are subtended by bracts which consist of three leaflets.
CONTROL
- Intercultural operations reduce the incidence of the weed in tobacco.
- hand removal before flowering.