2002 SCST Proficiency test: Wheat purity
pure seed:
Triticum aestivum
contaminants:
Secale cereale
(crop) – 6 seeds
Avena fatua
(weed) – 1 seed
Convolvulus arvensis
(weed) – 2 seeds
Aegilops cylindrica
(weed) – 3 seeds
(Photos courtesy USDA/ARS NCGRP)
Pure seed:
Triticum aestivum
Other Crop :
Secale cereal
e
Weeds:
Avena fatua
Aegilops cylindrica
Convolvulus arvensis
Convolvulus arvensis and similar species
Convolvulus arvensis
- field bindweed
Convolvulus equitans -
texas bindweed or hoary bindweed
Calystegia sepium
- hedge bindweed (
Convolvulus sepium
- synonym)
Ipomoea purpurea
Ipomoea
sp.
Polygonum convolvulus
- wild buckwheat
Additional reference:
Gunn, Charles R. 1969. Seeds of the United States Noxious and common Weeds in the Convolvulaceae,
excluding the genus Cuscuta. Proc. Assoc. of Official Seed Analysts. 59: 101-115.