Ethnobotany of Weeds; Weed Flora of Ramat Polytechnic Teaching and Research Farm, Maiduguri Borno State of Nigeria

Abstract

This study was carried out to ascertain the species of weeds at Ramat Polytechnic Teaching and Research Farm, Maiduguri Borno State Nigeria. The objective of the study is to identify the weeds flora and ethnobotanical benefits of these weeds. Weed flora shows that 38 weed species were identified belonging to 18 different families out of which mostly, twenty-six ( 26) are annuals the remaining ( 8) are perennials. The distribution of these weeds further shows that Cleome gynandra L., Commelina

Ethnobotany of Weeds: Weed Flora of University of Maiduguri Teaching and Research Farm, Maiduguri Sudan Savanna, Borno State.

“…Uses such as highly medicinal are as a result of responses based on the people of the community, meaning that it served as very medicinal as compared to other medicinal plants. Again some weeds are fair as forage, this is because they are only beneficial at a certain stage of their life cycle; that's once they reach maturity they are no longer palatable to the animals this finding is in line with the sayings of Dhanam and Elayaraj (2014); (Kajidu et al, 2019) where they stated plants are generally rich sources of many natural herbal products which have mostly used for human welfare especially in tonic to loss of viability and also reduce the human pain and suffering from many diseases. Weeds are tremendously grown in open areas and people are not aware for medicinal value of weeds, forage and olericultural importance.…”

“…Plants are generally rich sources of many natural herbal products which have mostly used for human welfare (plants possess curative effects) and also reduce the human pain and suffering from many diseases, Dhanam and Elayaraj (2014). Weeds tremendously grow in open areas and people are not aware that these weeds have medicinal value, used as forage and olericultural importance (Kajidu et al, 2019). There are useful weeds; this was confirmed, most of the weeds have one or several uses.…”