Completion of survey and identification species of weeds in the city of Tripoli and its suburbs

Hassan M. ALharari
Mohamed A. Nasef
Abdul Raoof M. El-Wasif
This study was conducted in the period from December 2021 up to 2023. The objective was to identify the weed species spreading at the city of Tripoli and its suburbs in completion of a previous study which was conducted the same city in the period from December 2018 to April 2021. Based on the results of the study 139 species of weed were detected which spread in the areas targeted by the survey which belong to 35 vegetarian families. The dominance of the family Poaceae with 26 species followed by the Asteraceae, Fabaceae and Brassicaceae with 25, 18, and 10 species respectively. 116 species of weed were detected in the previous study where as 23 species belongs to 8 vegetarian families not included in the previous study. The dominance was the Poaceae and Asteraceae families with 8 and 5 species respectively. Thorough the field observation in comparison with the previous study, it was noted that Oxalis compressa Thunb. Which belongs to the Oxalidaceae family and Verbesina encelioides .