Weeds Identification

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Plant type

Broadleaf

Broadleaf
Grass or grass like
Other

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Growth habit

upright and nonwoody

prostrate and nonwoody

woody bush or tree

Leaf structure

simple

Leaf shape

Leaf arrangement

leaves not present

Leaf margin

Leaf stalk

shorter than leaf

shorter than leaf

longer than leaf

Leaf hairs

Stem cross section

square or multi-edged

Stem hairs

Thorns or spines

Ochrea

Milky sap

Dominant flower color

Flower symmetry

radial symetery

bilateral symetry

not symmetrical

Flower diameter

I do not know

Lifecycle

Root structure

I do not know

rhizomes present

stolons present

bulb/corm/enlarged stem/nutlet

Common Name Scientific Name

Common name

(159 weeds)

American barberry

American basswood

American burnweed

American pokeweed

American speedwell

Asiatic tearthumb

bittersweet nightshade

bladder campion

brownray knapweed

camphor pluchea

Canada goldenrod

clammy groundcherry

common cocklebur

common dandelion

common milkweed

common periwinkle

common persimmon

common selfheal

common speedwell

common sunflower

common threeseed mercury

common viper's bugloss

creeping primrose

curlytop knotweed

devil's beggartick

early yellowrocket

eastern black nightshade

eastern daisy fleabane

European field pansy

European spindletree

field pennycress

field pepperweed

Florida beggarweed

garden yellowrocket

germander speedwell

giant goldenrod

green carpetweed

green field speedwell

henbit deadnettle

hophornbeam copperleaf

ivyleaf morning-glory

ivyleaf speedwell

jagged chickweed

Japanese barberry

Japanese honeysuckle

Japanese knotweed

Jerusalem artichoke

lateflowering thoroughwort

longleaf groundcherry

man of the earth

mayweed chamomile

Morrow's honeysuckle

northern red oak

orange hawkweed

Oriental bittersweet

Oriental lady's thumb

Pennsylvania smartweed

perennial sowthistle

Persian speedwell

plantain-leaved pussytoes

prairie fleabane

prostrate pigweed

purple deadnettle

purslane speedwell

roughfruit amaranth

roundleaf greenbriar

showy rattlebox

slender amaranth

Spanish needles

spoonleaf purple everlasting

spotted knapweed

spotted ladysthumb

spotted St. Johnswort

stinging nettle

swamp smartweed

tall morning-glory

Tatarian honeysuckle

thymeleaf speedwell

Virginia bluebells

Virginia sweetspire

Virginia threeseed mercury

western salsify

white ballmustard

white snakeroot

Scientific Name

(159 weeds)

Abutilon theophrasti

Acalypha ostryifolia

Acalypha rhomboidea

Acalypha virginica

Acer rubrum var. trilobum

Ageratina altissima

Amaranthus albus

Amaranthus blitoides

Amaranthus hybridus

Amaranthus spinosus

Amaranthus tuberculatus

Amaranthus viridis

Ambrosia trifida

Antennaria plantaginifolia

Anthemis cotula

Apocynum cannabinum

Arabidopsis thaliana

Arctium tomentosum

Artemisia absinthium

Artemisia vulgaris

Asclepias syriaca

Asclepias tuberosa

Asimina triloba

Barbarea vulgaris

Bellis perennis

Berberis canadensis

Berberis thunbergii

Bidens bipinnata

Bidens frondosa

Brassica juncea

Broussonetia papyrifera

Calepina irregularis

Calystegia sepium

Carya illinoinensis

Celastrus orbiculatus

Centaurea jacea

Centaurea stoebe ssp. micranthos

Cercis canadensis

Chenopodium album

Clinopodium vulgare

Convolvulus arvensis

Crotalaria spectabilis

Croton glandulosus var. septentrionalis

Croton monanthogynus

Datura stramonium

Desmodium tortuosum

Dioscorea bulbifera

Diospyros virginiana

Elaeagnus umbellata

Erechtites hieracifolia

Erigeron annuus

Erigeron strigosus

Euonymus europaeus

Eupatorium serotinum

Euphorbia dentata

Fagus grandifolia

Gamochaeta purpure

Helianthus annuus

Helianthus tuberosus

Hieracium aurantiacum

Holosteum umbellatum

Hypericum punctatum

Impatiens capensis

Ipomoea coccinea

Ipomoea hederacea

Ipomoea lacunosa

Ipomoea pandurata

Ipomoea purpurea

Lamium amplexicaule

Lamium purpureum

Lathyrus latifolius

Lepidium campestre

Leucanthemum vulgare

Ligustrum sinense

Liquidambar styraciflua

Lonicera japonica

Lonicera morrowii

Lonicera tatarica

Ludwigia palustris

Maclura pomifera

Mertensia virginica

Mollugo verticillata

Monarda citriodora

Nyssa sylvatica

Oxydendrum arboreum

Perilla frutescens

Physalis heterophylla

Physalis longifolia var. subglabrata

Phytolacca americana

Pluchea camphorata

Polygonum caespitosum

Polygonum convolvulus

Polygonum cuspidatum

Polygonum hydropiperoides

Polygonum lapathifolium

Polygonum pensylvanicum

Polygonum perfoliatum

Polygonum persicaria

Prunella vulgaris

Quercus virginiana

Rumex obtusifolius

Sicyos angulatus

Sida rhombifolia

Silene latifolia ssp. alba

Silene vulgaris

Sinapis arvensis ssp. arvensis

Smilax rotundifolia

Solanum carolinense

Solanum dulcamara

Solanum ptycanthum

Solidago altissima

Solidago giganteae

Sonchus arvensis

Symphoricarpos orbiculatus

Taraxacum officinale

Thlaspi arvense

Tilia americana

Tragopogon dubius

Tussilago farfara

Verbascum blattaria

Verbascum thapsus

Verbena hastata

Verbena urticifolia

Verbesina alternifolia

Verbesina occidentalis

Vernonia gigantea

Veronica agrestis

Veronica americana

Veronica arvensis

Veronica chamaedrys

Veronica hederifolia

Veronica officinalis

Veronica peregrina

Veronica persica

Veronica serpyllifolia

Xanthium strumarium