Weed Herbarium

Guccha mutha

Common Name: Deo bhadail
Scientific Name: Cyperus nemoralis Cherm.
Family Name: Cyperaceae
Type: Sedge

Identification Notes

EPPO Code

Life Cycle

Perennial

Morphology

Culm: laxly tufted with long creeping rhizome, close together or spaced along with rhizome, erect, triquetrous, not thickened at base; Leaves: many, usually shorter than the culm, blades linear, rather soft, flattish, sheath brown to purple brown; Inflorescence: a single head, bearing a globose central spike, densely bearing many spikelets; Fruit: achene, oblong to obovate, suborbicular, biconvexed.

Growing season

Rabi and Kharif

Germination period

January - December

Flowering period

January - December

Propagation

By seed and rhizome

Habitat

Mostly found in the levee of crop fields and irrigation channel, homesteads and fallow lands.

Weed potential

Control measure

Recommended herbicide

Distribution

It is native to Europe, Asia, and Africa. It grows in moist meadows, marshes, and riverbanks.

Medicinal properties

Cyperus nemoralis is used as an ornamental plant in gardens and is also used in traditional medicine.

Department of Agronomy

Bangladesh Agricultural University