Common ruderals weed diversity along naag tibba trek in District Tehri Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India Pandey Manisha*, Joshi S.P, Sharma Sachin Eco-Taxonomy Research Laboratory, Department of Botany, D.A.V. (P.G) College, Dehradun, Uttarakhand248001, India [Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal (A Central University)Srinagar, Garhwal, Uttarakhand, India.] *Corresponding author email: manishapandey614@gmail.com
Online Published on 28 October, 2024. Abstract A botanical trip was undertaken for collecting information on ruderals weeds along Naag Tibba trek in the district of Tehri, Uttarakhand, India. The weed inventories were done in the year January 2021 – February 2022. A total of 43 weed species, divided into 37 genera, 22 Families, 14 APG-IV Orders and (8) APG-Grades of Angiosperm Phylogeny Group-IV System were located at the study site. The most dominant Grades were Campanulids and supersterids and two dominant Orders were Asterales and Caryophyllales. The study also revealed that most of the recorded species were annuals 57%, followed by perennials and biennials with 36% and 7%, respectively. The analysis of the habitat included Road sites (23 spp., 34%), Mountain slope (15 spp., 19%), Wasteland (13 spp., 19%), moist area (6 spp., 9%), crop fields and the edge of a field (4 spp., 6%). Out of the 43 weed species Ageratum conyzoides L., Oxalis corniculata L., Parthenium hysterophorus L., Solanum virginianum L., Urtica dioica L. were common weeds showing maximum diversity in the study site. The current study was conducted to generate baseline data on the weeds along the Nag Tibba Trek it could serve as a manual for future weed identification and recognizing their diversity. Top Keywords APG-IV, Grade, Mussoorie, Ruderals, Weed diversity. Top |