Weed flora of selected farms in Al-Wadi Al-Shargi in Ain Zara District Southwest of Tripoli- Libya
1 Department of Botany, Faculty of Sciences, University of Tripoli. Libya.
2 Department of Zoology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Tripoli. Libya.
Research Article
Magna Scientia Advanced Research and Reviews, 2022, 05(01), 036–041
Article DOI: 10.30574/msarr.2022.5.1.0043
Publication history:
Received on 21 April 2022; revised on 09 June 2022; accepted on 11 June 2022
Abstract:
The present study was designed to explore the species diversity and floristic analysis of the weed flora of selected farms in the Al-Wadi Al-Shargi in Ain Zara district southwest of Tripoli- Libya. A total of 85 different plant taxa have been collected and recorded from the study area representing 29 families of which 27 families and 67 species are belonging to dicotyledons, 2 families, and 18 species belonging to monocotyledons. The results of this study show that the dominance of the family Poaceae with 17 species followed by the family Asteraceae with 16 species, then the family Fabaceae and Brassicaeae with 8 species each. The rest families were represented by three species or less. The result has also shown the dominance of the genus Sisymbrium with three species. Lifeform spectrum analysis has shown the absolute dominance of therophytes with 80 species. Simpson’s Diversity index showed that the weed flora of the studied farms was highly diversified.
Keywords:
Weed flora; Crop fields; Life form; Simpson index; Al-Wadi Al-Shargi
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