Identification of injurious weeds
A leaflet has been produced to assist in the identification of injurious weeds as prescribed in the Weeds Act 1959. It includes colour photographs and descriptions of the five injurious weeds covered by the Act, and also includes descriptions of similar species and titles of reference books which can provide more detailed information. Copies are available free from Defra Publications (quote publication code PB4192)
Both the full text of the leaflet and sections on the individual weeds
are available below in Adobe Acrobat portable document format (pdf) 
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- Identification of injurious weeds (full
text - 970 KB - NB large file)
- Individual weeds
- Common ragwort (268 KB)
- Broad-leaved dock (200 KB)
- Curled dock (215 KB)
- Creeping thistle (223 KB)
- Spear thistle (231 KB)
- Further information on other thistles, reading list and acknowledgements (47 KB)
Page last modified: 26 September 2005