Rules and Regulations

Wyoming FFA Agronomy Contest

PART E - PLANT AND SEED IDENTIFICATION

1. Identification - two 15 specimen classes
   (15 weed plants and 15 crop plants)
   4 points will be allowed for each correct identification. In seed identification, 20 seeds at 4 points each will be allowed.
2. Contestants will record common names only as listed. Other names than those on the list will be counted wrong.
3. One point will be taken off for incorrect spelling.
4. This section will be separated into two parts as shown below.

 

 

Crop Plants and Weed Plants
Seed Identification

A. Noxious and/or Prohibited Weeds	Photo	Seed		Photo	Seed
1. Canada thistle	X	X	9. Perennial pepperweed	X
2. Common burdock	X		10. Perennial sowthistle	X
3. Dalamtian toadflax	X		11. Plumeless thistle	X
4. Field Bindweed	X	X	12. Quackgrass	X	X
5. Hoary Cress	X		13. Russian knapweed	X
6. Leafy spurge	X		14. Scotch thistle	X
7. Musk thistle	X	X	15. Skeletonleaf bursage	X
8. Oxeye daisy	X	X	16. Yellow toadflax	X
B. Semi-harmful Weeds	Photo	Seed		Photo	Seed
17. Buckhorn plantain	X	X	22. Povertyweed		X
18. Blue lettuce	X		23. Swainsonpea		X
19. Field Dodder	X	X	24. Wild oats	X	X
20. Puncturevine	X	X	25. Jointed goatgrass	X	X
21. Common ragweed	X	X	26. Wild proso millet	X
C. Common Weeds	Photo	Seed		Photo	Seed
27. Barnyardgrass	X	X	48. Venice mallow	X
28. Blue mustard	X		49. Curlycup gumweed	X
29. Buffalobur	X		50. Wild mustard	X	X
30. Bull thistle	X		51. Japanese brome	X
31. Chicory	X		52. Kochia	X	X
32. Common chickweed	X		53. Common lambsquarters	X	X
33. Common sunflower	X	X	54. Marshelder	X
34. Common cocklebur	X		55. Mousear chickweed	X
35. Common yarrow	X		56. Common salsify	X
36. Curly dock	X	X	57. Prickly lettuce	X
37. Dandelion	X	X	58. Annual pricklepoppy	X
38. Downy brome	X	X	59. Pigweed Spp	X	X
39. Knotweed	X		60. Nightshade Spp.	X	X
40. Field sandbur	X		61. Sheep Sorrel	X	X
41. Field pennycress	X	X	62. Russian thistle	X	X
42. Smallseed falseflax	X		63. Shepherdspurse	X	X
43. Foxtail barley	X		64. Skeletonweed	X
44. Green foxtail	X	X	65. Pinnate tansymustard	X	X
45. Canada goldenrod	X	X	66. Tumblemustard	X
46. Western Sticktight	X		67. Wild buckwheat	X
47. Horseweed	X		68. Common purslane	X	X
D. Poisonous Plants	Photo	Seed		Photo	Seed
70. Seaside arrowgrass	X		75. Lupine	X	X
71. Deathcamas	X		76. Princes plume	X
72. Halogeton	X		77. Two-grooved milkvetch	X
73. Geyer larkspur	X		78. Western waterhemlock	X
74. Tall larkspur	X		79. Woody aster	X
E. Grasses	Mounts			Mounts
80. Alkali sacaton	X		93. Needleandthread	X
81. Bluebunch wheatgrass	X		94. Orchardgrass	X
82. Blue grama	X		95. Prairie sandreed	X
83. Buffalograss	X		96. Redtop bent	X
84. Canada wildrye	X		97. Reed canarygrass	X
85. Crested wheatgrass	X		98. Red threeawn	X
86. Giant wildrye	X		99. Russian wildrye	X
87. Green needlegrass	X		100. Inland Saltgrass	X
88. Idaho fescue	X		101. Meadow foxtail	X
89. Indian ricegrass	X		102. Slender wheatgrass	X
90. Intermediate wheatgrass			103. Smooth brome	X
91. Kentucky bluegrass			104. Tall wheatgrass	X
92. Meadow fescue			105. Timothy	X
			106. Western wheatgrass	X
F. Legumes, Cereals and Oil Crops	Mounts	Seed		Mounts	Seed
107. Alfalfa	X	X	117. Safflower	X	X
108. Alsike clover	X	X	118. Amber durum wheat	X	X
109. Barley	X	X	119. White wheat	X	X
110. Birdsfoot trefoil	X	X	120. Sorghum	X	X
111. White clover	X	X	121. Sudangrass	X	X
112. Red clover	X	X	122. Foxtail millet	X	X
113. Sweetclover (white/yellow)	X	X	123. Flax	X	X
114. Cereal rye	X	X	124. Triticale	X	X
115. Cicer milkvetch	X	X	125. Red Wheat	X	X
116. Sainfoin	X	X	126. White Oat	X	X
	X	X	127. Oat	X	X