Broadleaves

Common wireweed

Stiff, woody based shrublet with narrow toothed leaves and small yellow flowers at the leaf joints; the tough stems are hard to pull.

Sida acuta Broadleaves, perennial Fact sheet
Common wireweed (Sida acuta) with a yellow flower among its narrow toothed leaves
Photo: Alexis LΓ³pez HernΓ‘ndez, CC BY, via iNaturalist

Also called

Walis walisan, eskubilla, escobang haba

Crops it troubles

How to tell it is a broadleaf

Wide leaves with a net of veins. The group decides what kills it, so check the stem and the leaf before you buy a herbicide.

How to keep it out

Pull or dig it out while young, before the stems turn woody, and slash plantation rows before it seeds.

How to control it

What to do and which active ingredients work depend on your crop and how old it is. The weed control helper in anee.io gives both, for coconut and every other crop it grows in.

Open the weed control helper

Where this comes from

Not sure it is this one?

Many weeds look alike. Send a photo to Anee, the smart farm technician in anee.io. She reads it with your crop, its age and the weather, and tells you what it most likely is and what to do first. In Tagalog or English.

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