Here is an A-Z of the most common weeds that you might find growing on your allotment or vegetable patch.

Common weeds
Couch Grass
Creeping Buttercup
Daisy
Dandelion
Moss
Plantain

Really nasty weeds
Ground Elder
Hedge Bindweed
Horsetail
Japanese Knotweed
Stinging Nettle
Clover

A - Z of weeds

A

Annual Meadow Grass

B

Broad-leaved Dock

C

Chickweed
Cleavers
Clover
Common Fumitory
Couch Grass
Creeping Buttercup
Creeping Thistle

D

Daisy
Dandelion

F

Fat Hen

G

Ground Elder
Groundsel

H

Hairy Bittercress
Hedge Bindweed
Horsetail

J

Japanese Knotweed

L

Liverwort

M

Mind-your-own-business
Moss

P

Pearlwort
Pineapple Weed
Plantain

R

Ragwort/Ragweed
Red Dead Nettle
Redshank
Rosebay Willowherb

S

Shepherd’s Purse
Sorrel
Speedwell
Stinging Nettle

T

Toadrush

V

Vetch

W

White Dead Nettle
Woodrush

Y

Yarrow