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Weed Identification

Virginia Tech College of Agriculture and Life Science Virginia Cooperative Extension

Weeds commonly submitted to the Virginia Weed Identification Clinic appear in the list of weeds. Narrow the list by choosing characteristics that match your unknown plant or search for plants by name. Please contact your local Extension office if you cannot identify your weed.

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Loaded 739 weeds sorted by common name (739 weeds)

  1. A

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    1. absinthe
    2. Adam and Eve orchid
    3. air yam
    4. allegheny monkeyflower
    5. alligatorweed
    6. American barberry
    7. American basswood
    8. American beautyberry
    9. American beech
    10. American black elderberry
    11. American bur-reed
    12. American burnweed
    13. American cancer-root
    14. American climacium moss
    15. American climbing fern
    16. American false pennyroyal
    17. American hazelnut
    18. American plum
    19. American pokeweed
    20. American speedwell
    21. American sycamore
    22. American water-willow
    23. American white waterlily
    24. Amur honeysuckle
    25. annual bluegrass
    26. annual sowthistle
    27. annual trampweed
    28. anomodon moss
    29. apple of Peru
    30. arrowleaf sida
    31. ashy sunflower
    32. Asian ponysfoot
    33. Asiatic dayflower
    34. Asiatic tearthumb
    35. atrichum moss
    36. Australian water-clover
    37. autumn olive

  2. B

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    1. bahiagrass
    2. bald brome
    3. balloon plant
    4. balsampear
    5. barnyardgrass
    6. beaked panicgrass
    7. bearded beggarticks
    8. beechdrops
    9. beefsteakplant
    10. Bermudagrass
    11. biennial beeblossom
    12. big bluestem
    13. big chickweed
    14. big cordgrass
    15. bigpod sesbania
    16. bigtop lovegrass
    17. billion-dollar grass
    18. bird's-foot trefoil
    19. bishop's weed
    20. bitter dock
    21. bitter panicgrass
    22. bitternut hickory
    23. bittersweet nightshade
    24. black bamboo
    25. black bugbane
    26. black cherry
    27. black highbush blueberry
    28. black huckleberry
    29. black locust
    30. black medic
    31. black nightshade
    32. black raspberry
    33. black willow
    34. black-staining polypore
    35. blackberry lily
    36. blackeyed Susan
    37. blackgum
    38. blackhaw
    39. bladder campion
    40. blindeyes
    41. blue huckleberry
    42. blue mistflower
    43. blue sedge
    44. blue waxweed
    45. bluejacket
    46. blunt spikerush
    47. Boston swordfern
    48. boxelder
    49. brambles
    50. Brazilian watermeal
    51. Brazilian waterweed
    52. brittle waternymph
    53. broadleaf cattail
    54. broadleaf helleborine
    55. broadleaf ironweed
    56. broadleaf pondweed
    57. broadleaf signalgrass
    58. broomsedge bluestem
    59. brown mustard
    60. browneyed Susan
    61. brownray knapweed
    62. buffalo nut
    63. buffalobur
    64. bulbous bluegrass
    65. bulbous woodrush
    66. bull thistle
    67. burcucumber
    68. burningbush
    69. bursting-heart
    70. butter and eggs
    71. butterfly weed
    72. butterweed

  3. C

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    1. Caley pea
    2. camphor pluchea
    3. Canada goldenrod
    4. Canada lettuce
    5. Canada thistle
    6. Canada toadflax
    7. Canadian blacksnakeroot
    8. Canadian clearweed
    9. Canadian lousewort
    10. cardoon
    11. Carolina desert-chicory
    12. Carolina elephantsfoot
    13. Carolina geranium
    14. Carolina mosquitofern
    15. Carolina ponysfoot
    16. castor aralia
    17. catclawvine
    18. catnip
    19. centipede grass
    20. chamber bitter
    21. chameleon plant
    22. cheatgrass
    23. chicory
    24. Chinaberrytree
    25. Chinese chestnut
    26. Chinese fountaingrass
    27. Chinese pear
    28. Chinese privet
    29. Chinese silvergrass
    30. Chinese sweetshrub
    31. Chinese tallow
    32. Chinese wisteria
    33. Chinese yam
    34. clammy groundcherry
    35. clammy locust
    36. climbing dayflower
    37. coastal sandbur
    38. coastal sweetpepperbush
    39. cockspur hawthorn
    40. coltsfoot
    41. common balm
    42. common barley
    43. common blue violet
    44. common bugle
    45. common burdock
    46. common buttonbush
    47. common carpetgrass
    48. common chickweed
    49. common cinquefoil
    50. common cocklebur
    51. common cowparsnip
    52. common dandelion
    53. common duckmeat
    54. common duckweed
    55. common earthball
    56. common evening primrose
    57. common groundsel
    58. common hop
    59. common liverwort
    60. common mallow
    61. common milkweed
    62. common mouse-ear chickweed
    63. common mullein
    64. common nipplewort
    65. common periwinkle
    66. common persimmon
    67. common plantain
    68. common ragweed
    69. common reed
    70. common rush
    71. common selfheal
    72. common sheep sorrel
    73. common speedwell
    74. common St. Johnswort
    75. common sunflower
    76. common sweetleaf
    77. common tansy
    78. common threeseed mercury
    79. common velvetgrass
    80. common vetch
    81. common viper's bugloss
    82. common yarrow
    83. common yellow oxalis
    84. controverial weissia moss
    85. coon's tail
    86. coralberry
    87. corn chamomile
    88. corn gromwell
    89. corn speedwell
    90. corn spurry
    91. cow pea
    92. crape myrtle
    93. creeping bentgrass
    94. creeping lespedeza
    95. creeping primrose
    96. creeping strawberry bush
    97. creeping woodsorrel
    98. creeping yellowcress
    99. crosswort
    100. crowfootgrass
    101. crownvetch
    102. cucumber-tree
    103. curly dock
    104. curly pondweed
    105. curlytop knotweed
    106. cursed buttercup
    107. cutleaf evening primrose
    108. cutleaf geranium
    109. cypress spurge
    110. cypressvine

  4. D

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    1. dallis grass
    2. dames rocket
    3. deerberry
    4. deertongue
    5. delicate thuidium moss
    6. Deptford pink
    7. devil in the bush
    8. devil's beggartick
    9. devil's grandmother
    10. devil's walkingstick
    11. disc mayweed
    12. dogfennel
    13. dotted smartweed
    14. dovefoot geranium
    15. doveweed
    16. duckweed

  5. E

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    1. early yellowrocket
    2. eastern baccharis
    3. eastern black nightshade
    4. eastern blue-eyed grass
    5. eastern cottonwood
    6. eastern daisy fleabane
    7. eastern gamagrass
    8. eastern poison ivy
    9. eastern redbud
    10. eastern redcedar
    11. eastern woodland sedge
    12. edible fig
    13. English ivy
    14. English yew
    15. Eurasian watermilfoil
    16. European cranberrybush
    17. European field pansy
    18. European lily of the valley
    19. eyebane

  6. F

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    1. fall panicgrass
    2. fall phlox
    3. false daisy
    4. fan clubmoss
    5. Fernald's yellowcress
    6. fiddle dock
    7. field bindweed
    8. field brome
    9. field horsetail
    10. field madder
    11. field mustard
    12. field pansy
    13. field pennycress
    14. field pepperweed
    15. field pumpkin
    16. field pussytoes
    17. filamentous algae
    18. fiveangled dodder
    19. floating marshpennywort
    20. floating primrose-willow
    21. Florida beggarweed
    22. flower of an hour
    23. flowering quince
    24. fox sedge
    25. foxtail barley
    26. foxtail millet
    27. fragrant flatsedge
    28. fragrant sumac
    29. frost grape
    30. Fuller's teasel

  7. G

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    1. gallant soldier
    2. garden asparagus
    3. garden cornflower
    4. garden lettuce
    5. garden rhubarb
    6. garden valerian
    7. garden yellowrocket
    8. garlic mustard
    9. germander speedwell
    10. giant foxtail
    11. giant goldenrod
    12. giant ironweed
    13. glossy buckthorn
    14. golden bamboo
    15. golden chain tree
    16. golden kiwi
    17. golden ragwort
    18. grass-like starwort
    19. great blue lobelia
    20. great ragweed
    21. greater bladder sedge
    22. green ash
    23. green carpetweed
    24. green field speedwell
    25. green foxtail
    26. green hawthorn
    27. greenwhite sedge
    28. ground ivy
    29. groundnut
    30. Guadeloupe cucumber

  8. H

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    1. hairy angelica
    2. hairy bittercress
    3. hairy cat's ear
    4. hairy crabgrass
    5. hairy crabweed
    6. hairy fleabane
    7. hairy vetch
    8. hairyfruit sedge
    9. hairyseed paspalum
    10. hardy orange
    11. hare's ear
    12. harlequin glorybower
    13. harvestlice
    14. hazel alder
    15. heavenly bamboo
    16. hedge bindweed
    17. hedgehog woodrush
    18. hedgehyssop
    19. hedgemustard
    20. hemp dogbane
    21. henbit deadnettle
    22. hog peanut
    23. hogwort
    24. honeylocust
    25. honeyvine milkweed
    26. hophornbeam copperleaf
    27. horned pondweed
    28. horsenettle
    29. horseweed
    30. humped bladderwort
    31. hyssopleaf thoroughwort

  9. I

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    1. incense cedar
    2. Indian goosegrass
    3. Indian strawberry
    4. Indiangrass
    5. Italian ryegrass
    6. itchgrass
    7. ivyleaf morningglory
    8. ivyleaf speedwell

  10. J

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    1. jagged chickweed
    2. Japanese barberry
    3. Japanese clover
    4. Japanese flowering cherry
    5. Japanese holly
    6. Japanese honeysuckle
    7. Japanese hop
    8. Japanese knotweed
    9. Japanese maple
    10. Japanese spindletree
    11. Japanese spirea
    12. Jerusalem artichoke
    13. jetbead
    14. jewelweed
    15. jimsonweed
    16. Johnsongrass
    17. jointhead arthraxon
    18. jungle rice

  11. K

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    1. Kentucky bluegrass
    2. kidneyleaf mudplantain
    3. kiss me over the garden gate
    4. knawel
    5. knotroot foxtail
    6. kochia
    7. kudzu

  12. L

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    1. lambsquarters
    2. lanceleaf ragweed
    3. large hopclover
    4. largebracted plantain
    5. largepod pinweed
    6. lateflowering thoroughwort
    7. lawn burweed
    8. lawn marshpennywort
    9. lawndaisy
    10. leafy pondweed
    11. lemon beebalm
    12. lesser calamint
    13. lesser swinecress
    14. little barley
    15. little bluestem
    16. little floatingheart
    17. little hogweed
    18. littleleaf buttercup
    19. littlepod false flax
    20. live oak
    21. long-stalked phyllanthus
    22. longleaf groundcherry
    23. longleaf pondweed
    24. low hopclover
    25. lyreleaf sage

  13. M

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    1. maidenstears
    2. man of the earth
    3. manyflower marshpennywort
    4. maroon Carolina milkvine
    5. Maryland goldenaster
    6. Maryland meadowbeauty
    7. mat amaranth
    8. matrimony vine
    9. Maule's quince
    10. mayapple
    11. mayweed chamomile
    12. meadow fescue
    13. meadow hawkweed
    14. Mexican fireplant
    15. Mexican tea
    16. mockernut hickory
    17. moleplant
    18. Morrow's honeysuckle
    19. moth mullein
    20. mountain fetterbush
    21. mountain laurel
    22. mouseear cress
    23. muck sunflower
    24. mugwort
    25. multiflora rose
    26. musk thistle
    27. muskgrass

  14. N

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    1. narrowleaf blue-eyed grass
    2. narrowleaf hawksbeard
    3. narrowleaf mountainmint
    4. narrowleaf pinweed
    5. narrowleaf plantain
    6. navel cornsalad
    7. needle spikerush
    8. Nepalese browntop
    9. nettleleaf noseburn
    10. nimblewill
    11. nonfilamentous algae
    12. northern bog violet
    13. northern catalpa
    14. northern dewberry
    15. northern jointvetch
    16. northern red oak
    17. Norwegian cinquefoil
    18. nutgrass

  15. O

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    1. openflower rosette grass
    2. orange hawkweed
    3. orangegrass
    4. orchardgrass
    5. oregano
    6. Oriental bittersweet
    7. Oriental lady's thumb
    8. ornamental jewelweed
    9. osage orange
    10. oxeye daisy

  16. P

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    1. Palmer amaranth
    2. palmleaf morningglory
    3. panicledleaf ticktrefoil
    4. paper mulberry
    5. parrot feather watermilfoil
    6. parsley-piert
    7. partridge pea
    8. pasture spikesedge
    9. pawpaw
    10. Pennsylvania smartweed
    11. peppermint
    12. perennial pea
    13. perennial ryegrass
    14. perennial sowthistle
    15. perplexed ticktrefoil
    16. Persian speedwell
    17. petty spurge
    18. Philadelphia fleabane
    19. piedmont bedstraw
    20. pignut hickory
    21. pink woodsorrel
    22. plantain-leaved pussytoes
    23. plume poppy
    24. poison hemlock
    25. pomegranate
    26. poorjoe
    27. poorland flatsedge
    28. poverty brome
    29. poverty dropseed
    30. poverty oatgrass
    31. poverty rush
    32. povertyweed
    33. Powell's amaranth
    34. prairie broomweed
    35. prairie fleabane
    36. prairie tea
    37. prickly lettuce
    38. prickly Russian thistle
    39. prickly sida
    40. princesstree
    41. prostrate knotweed
    42. prostrate pigweed
    43. purple ammannia
    44. purple deadnettle
    45. purple loosestrife
    46. purple passionflower
    47. purpletop
    48. purslane speedwell

  17. Q

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    1. quackgrass
    2. Queen Anne's lace
    3. quince

  18. R

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    1. rabbit-tobacco
    2. rabbitfoot clover
    3. ram's horn
    4. ramtilla
    5. rape
    6. rare clubmoss
    7. rattail fescue
    8. red clover
    9. red fescue
    10. red maple
    11. red mulberry
    12. red sandspurry
    13. red stemmed parrots feather
    14. reddening lepiota
    15. redroot amaranth
    16. redstar
    17. redstem stork's bill
    18. redtop
    19. reed canarygrass
    20. rescuegrass
    21. rice button aster
    22. rice cutgrass
    23. roadside pennycress
    24. rough bluegrass
    25. roughfruit amaranth
    26. roundleaf greenbriar
    27. rugosa rose
    28. rusty blackhaw

  19. S

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    1. saltgrass
    2. saltmeadow cordgrass
    3. sassafras
    4. saucer magnolia
    5. sawtooth blackberry
    6. sawtooth oak
    7. scarlet pimpernel
    8. scentless false mayweed
    9. Scotch broom
    10. seaside arrowgrass
    11. sensitive fern
    12. sensitive partridge pea
    13. sericea lespedeza
    14. shaggy soldier
    15. shallow sedge
    16. sharpleaf cancerwort
    17. shaved sedge
    18. shepherd's purse
    19. shining bedstraw
    20. shortleaf spikesedge
    21. showy rattlebox
    22. Siberian ligularia
    23. sicklepod
    24. silktree
    25. silky dogwood
    26. silver hairgrass
    27. silverleaf nightshade
    28. silvery everlasting
    29. silvery threadmoss
    30. sleepydick
    31. slender amaranth
    32. slender parsley piert
    33. slimleaf panicgrass
    34. small geranium
    35. small hopclover
    36. small pondweed
    37. smallflower buttercup
    38. smallflower morningglory
    39. smallspike false nettle
    40. smooth aster
    41. smooth bedstraw
    42. smooth brome
    43. smooth cordgrass
    44. smooth crabgrass
    45. smooth hawksbeard
    46. smooth pigweed
    47. smooth rattlebox
    48. smooth sumac
    49. smut grass
    50. sneezeweed
    51. soapwort
    52. soft brome
    53. sourwood
    54. southern crabgrass
    55. southern waternymph
    56. soybean
    57. Spanish needles
    58. spiny amaranth
    59. spiny plumeless thistle
    60. spiny sowthistle
    61. spoonleaf purple everlasting
    62. spotted knapweed
    63. spotted ladysthumb
    64. spotted sandmat
    65. spotted St. Johnswort
    66. spotted water hemlock
    67. spring avens
    68. spring draba
    69. spurred anoda
    70. squarestem spikerush
    71. squirrel corn
    72. St. Andrew's cross
    73. St. Anthony's turnip
    74. St. augustinegrass
    75. starch grape hyacinth
    76. stickbush
    77. stickweed
    78. sticky chickweed
    79. sticky ragwort
    80. stickywilly
    81. stiff dogwood
    82. stinging nettle
    83. stink grass
    84. strawcolored flatsedge
    85. strict blue-eyed grass
    86. stringy stonecrop
    87. striped prince's pine
    88. strong quillwort
    89. sugar maple
    90. sugarcane plumegrass
    91. sulphur cinquefoil
    92. sun spurge
    93. swamp bay
    94. swamp smartweed
    95. swamp tupelo
    96. swamp verbena
    97. sweet autumn virginsbower
    98. sweet bay
    99. sweet clover
    100. sweet fennel
    101. sweet sagewort
    102. sweet vernalgrass
    103. sweet woodreed
    104. sweetflag
    105. sweetgum
    106. sweetscented bedstraw
    107. switchgrass

  20. T

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    1. tall fescue
    2. tall globethistle
    3. tall morningglory
    4. tall oatgrass
    5. tapered rosette grass
    6. tapertip cupgrass
    7. Tatarian honeysuckle
    8. Texas panicum
    9. thin paspalum
    10. threadstalk speedwell
    11. throughwort pennycress
    12. Thunbergs meadowsweet
    13. thymeleaf speedwell
    14. timothy
    15. toothed plagiomnium moss
    16. toothed spurge
    17. trailing pearlwort
    18. tree-of-a-thousand-stars
    19. tree-of-heaven
    20. trumpet creeper
    21. trumpetweed
    22. tufted lovegrass
    23. tuliptree
    24. tumble windmill grass
    25. twoheaded water-starwort
    26. twoleaf watermilfoil
    27. tyrol knapweed

  21. U

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    1. upland bentgrass

  22. V

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    1. Vasey's grass
    2. velvet panicum
    3. velvetleaf
    4. vente conmigo
    5. violet orychophragmus
    6. Virginia buttonweed
    7. Virginia creeper
    8. Virginia glasswort
    9. Virginia mountainmint
    10. Virginia pepperweed
    11. Virginia strawberry
    12. Virginia sweetspire
    13. Virginia threeseed mercury

  23. W

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    1. watercress
    2. watershield
    3. waterthread pondweed
    4. waterthyme
    5. wax myrtle
    6. weakstalk bulrush
    7. weeping lovegrass
    8. western brackenfern
    9. western marsh cudweed
    10. western panicgrass
    11. western salsify
    12. white ash
    13. white clover
    14. white heath aster
    15. white mulberry
    16. white panicle aster
    17. white snakeroot
    18. white vervain
    19. whitegrass
    20. whitesnow
    21. whitestar
    22. whitetinge sedge
    23. whorled yellow loosestrife
    24. widgeongrass
    25. wild basil
    26. wild blue phlox
    27. wild buckwheat
    28. wild four-o'clock
    29. wild garlic
    30. wild grapes
    31. wild mustard
    32. wild oat
    33. wild parsnip
    34. wild radish
    35. wild sarsaparilla
    36. wine raspberry
    37. winged sumac
    38. wingstem
    39. winter-flowering cherry
    40. wintergreen barberry
    41. witchgrass
    42. woodland bittercress
    43. woodland lettuce
    44. woodlily
    45. woolgrass
    46. woolly burdock

  24. Y

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    1. yaupon
    2. yellow archangel
    3. yellow floatingheart
    4. yellow foxtail
    5. yellow nutsedge
    6. yellow passionflower
    7. yellow spring bedstraw

  25. Z

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    1. zoysiagrass