Select the
plant that is best described by the following characteristics:
• Troublesome weed especially in pastures and
potato fields
• It cannot withstand the extreme high
temperatures of the southern United States
• A perennial that can be a serious weed in
home lawns and in row crops
• Can reproduce both by seed and by very
extensive rhizomes which may be 20 feet or more in
length
• These tough rhizomes are extremely
troublesome in potato fields because they will
grow right through a potato tuber thus destroying the marketable portion of the crop
A. Quackgrass
B. Tall Fescue
C. Ryegrass
D. Johnsongrass