Weeds Identification

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Plant type

Broadleaf

Broadleaf
Grass or grass like
Other

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Growth habit

I do not know

upright and nonwoody

prostrate and nonwoody

woody bush or tree

Leaf structure

simple

Leaf shape

Leaf arrangement

I do not know

leaves not present

Leaf margin

Leaf stalk

shorter than leaf

longer than leaf

Leaf hairs

Stem cross section

square or multi-edged

Stem hairs

Thorns or spines

Ochrea

I do not know

Milky sap

Dominant flower color

Flower symmetry

radial symetery

bilateral symetry

not symmetrical

Flower diameter

I do not know

Lifecycle

perennial

Root structure

rhizomes present

stolons present

bulb/corm/enlarged stem/nutlet

Common Name Scientific Name

Common name

(127 weeds)

American barberry

American basswood

American pokeweed

American speedwell

Asian ponysfoot

bittersweet nightshade

bladder campion

brownray knapweed

camphor pluchea

Canada goldenrod

Carolina elephantsfoot

Carolina ponysfoot

clammy groundcherry

common blue violet

common dandelion

common milkweed

common mouse-ear chickweed

common periwinkle

common persimmon

common plantain

common selfheal

common sheep sorrel

common speedwell

common St. Johnswort

creeping primrose

cursed buttercup

eastern cottonwood

European spindletree

field horsetail

germander speedwell

giant goldenrod

honeyvine milkweed

hyssopleaf thoroughwort

Japanese barberry

Japanese honeysuckle

Japanese knotweed

Jerusalem artichoke

lateflowering thoroughwort

man of the earth

manyflower marshpennywort

meadow hawkweed

Morrow's honeysuckle

narrowleaf plantain

northern catalpa

northern red oak

orange hawkweed

Oriental bittersweet

perennial sowthistle

plantain-leaved pussytoes

purple loosestrife

roundleaf greenbriar

smooth bedstraw

smooth bedstraw

spotted knapweed

spotted St. Johnswort

St. Anthony's turnip

stinging nettle

swamp smartweed

sweetscented bedstraw

tall globethistle

Tatarian honeysuckle

threadstalk speedwell

thymeleaf speedwell

Virginia bluebells

Virginia buttonweed

Virginia sweetspire

white heath aster

white snakeroot

yellow spring bedstraw

Scientific Name

(127 weeds)

Acer rubrum var. trilobum

Achillea millefolium

Ageratina altissima

Alternanthera philoxeroides

Ampelamus albidus

Antennaria plantaginifolia

Apocynum cannabinum

Artemisia absinthium

Artemisia vulgaris

Asclepias syriaca

Asclepias tuberosa

Asimina triloba

Bellis perennis

Berberis canadensis

Berberis thunbergii

Broussonetia papyrifera

Calystegia sepium

Carya illinoinensis

Catalpa speciosa

Celastrus orbiculatus

Centaurea jacea

Centaurea stoebe ssp. micranthos

Cerastium fontanum

Cerastium fontanum ssp. vulgare

Cercis canadensis

Cichorium intybus

Cirsium arvense

Clinopodium vulgare

Convolvulus arvensis

Cruciata laevipes

Dianthus armeria

Dichondra carolinensis

Dichondra micrantha

Diodia virginiana

Dioscorea bulbifera

Dioscorea oppositifolia

Diospyros virginiana

Echinops exaltatus

Elaeagnus umbellata

Elephantopus carolinianus

Equisetum arvense

Euonymus alatus

Euonymus europaeus

Eupatorium hyssopifolium

Eupatorium serotinum

Fagus grandifolia

Fraxinus pennsylvanica

Galium odoratum

Glechoma hederacea

Helianthus tuberosus

Hieracium aurantiacum

Hieracium caespitosum

Hydrocotyle umbellata

Hypericum perforatum

Hypericum punctatum

Ipomoea pandurata

Lathyrus latifolius

Leucanthemum vulgare

Ligustrum sinense

Liquidambar styraciflua

Lonicera japonica

Lonicera morrowii

Lonicera tatarica

Ludwigia palustris

Lythrum salicaria

Maclura pomifera

Mertensia virginica

Monarda citriodora

Nyssa sylvatica

Oxydendrum arboreum

Physalis heterophylla

Phytolacca americana

Plantago lanceolata

Pluchea camphorata

Polygonum cuspidatum

Polygonum hydropiperoides

Populus deltoides

Portulaca pilosa

Prunella vulgaris

Quercus virginiana

Ranunculus bulbosus

Ranunculus sceleratus

Rumex acetosella

Rumex obtusifolius

Silene latifolia ssp. alba

Silene vulgaris

Smilax rotundifolia

Solanum carolinense

Solanum dulcamara

Solidago altissima

Solidago giganteae

Sonchus arvensis

Spergularia rubra

Symphoricarpos orbiculatus

Symphyotrichum pilosum var. pilosum

Taraxacum officinale

Tilia americana

Tussilago farfara

Verbena hastata

Verbena urticifolia

Verbesina alternifolia

Verbesina occidentalis

Vernonia gigantea

Veronica americana

Veronica chamaedrys

Veronica filiformis

Veronica officinalis

Veronica serpyllifolia