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

Leaf shape

Leaf arrangement

alternate

leaves not present

Leaf margin

Leaf stalk

shorter than leaf

longer than leaf

Leaf hairs

I do not know

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

pencil

Lifecycle

Root structure

I do not know

rhizomes present

stolons present

bulb/corm/enlarged stem/nutlet

Common Name Scientific Name

Common name

(140 weeds)

American burnweed

American pokeweed

American sycamore

annual sowthistle

Asiatic dayflower

bearded beggarticks

bigpod sesbania

bird's-foot trefoil

browneyed Susan

Canada goldenrod

Canada toadflax

Carolina elephantsfoot

Carolina geranium

Carolina ponysfoot

climbing dayflower

common cocklebur

common groundsel

common sheep sorrel

common yellow oxalis

creeping lespedeza

creeping woodsorrel

curlytop knotweed

cursed buttercup

cutleaf geranium

devil's walkingstick

early yellowrocket

eastern black nightshade

eastern daisy fleabane

eastern poison ivy

European spindletree

field pepperweed

field pussytoes

Florida beggarweed

garden yellowrocket

giant goldenrod

green field speedwell

hairy bittercress

hophornbeam copperleaf

ivyleaf speedwell

Japanese barberry

Japanese clover

Japanese knotweed

lanceleaf ragweed

littleleaf buttercup

manyflower marshpennywort

northern red oak

Oriental bittersweet

Oriental lady's thumb

Palmer amaranth

palmleaf morningglory

panicledleaf ticktrefoil

perplexed ticktrefoil

Persian speedwell

philadelphia fleabane

plantain-leaved pussytoes

Powell's amaranth

prairie fleabane

prickly Russian thistle

prostrate pigweed

purslane speedwell

Queen Anne's lace

redroot amaranth

roughfruit amaranth

sericea lespedeza

shepherd's purse

showy rattlebox

slender parsley piert

small hopclover

smallflower buttercup

smallflower morningglory

spotted knapweed

spotted ladysthumb

spotted water hemlock

swamp smartweed

threadstalk speedwell

Virginia creeper

Virginia strawberry

white heath aster

wild sarsaparilla

woodland bittercress

Scientific Name

(140 weeds)

Acalypha ostryifolia

Achillea millefolium

Ailanthus altissima

Amaranthus albus

Amaranthus palmeri

Amaranthus powellii

Amaranthus retroflexus

Amaranthus spinosus

Amaranthus tuberculatus

Ambrosia artemisiifolia

Ambrosia bidentata

Antennaria neglecta

Antennaria plantaginifolia

Anthemis arvensis

Arabidopsis thaliana

Aralia nudicaulis

Artemisia absinthium

Artemisia annua

Artemisia vulgaris

Asclepias tuberosa

Barbarea vulgaris

Bassia scoparia

Berberis thunbergii

Bidens aristosa

Buglossoides arvensis

Capsella bursa-pastoris

Cardamine flexuosa

Cardamine hirsuta

Celastrus orbiculatus

Centaurea stoebe ssp. micranthos

Cercis canadensis

Chamaecrista fasciculata

Chenopodium album

Cicuta maculata

Cirsium arvense

Commelina communis

Commelina diffusa

Conium maculatum

Conyza canadensis

Crotalaria spectabilis

Croton glandulosus var. septentrionalis

Croton monanthogynus

Desmodium paniculatum

Desmodium perplexum

Desmodium tortuosum

Dichondra carolinensis

Dioscorea bulbifera

Dioscorea oppositifolia

Eclipta prostrata

Elaeagnus umbellata

Elephantopus carolinianus

Erechtites hieracifolia

Erigeron annuus

Erigeron philadelphicus

Erigeron strigosus

Euonymus europaeus

Eupatorium capillifolium

Fragaria virginiana

Geranium carolinianum

Geranium dissectum

Gleditsia triacanthos

Helenium amarum

Hydrocotyle umbellata

Ipomoea wrightii

Jacquemontia tamnifolia

Kummerowia striata

Lactuca Canadensis

Lepidium campestre

Lespedeza cuneata

Lespedeza repens

Lotus corniculatus

Matricaria discoidea

Medicago lupulina

Melilotus officinalis

Nuttallanthus canadensis

Oxalis corniculata

Oxydendrum arboreum

Packera glabella

Parthenocissus quinquefolia

Phyllanthus urinaria

Phytolacca americana

Platanus occidentalis

Polygonum caespitosum

Polygonum convolvulus

Polygonum cuspidatum

Polygonum hydropiperoides

Polygonum lapathifolium

Polygonum persicaria

Portulaca oleracea

Quercus virginiana

Ranunculus abortivus

Ranunculus parviflorus

Ranunculus sceleratus

Raphanus raphanistrum

Rhus copallinum

Rudbeckia triloba

Rumex acetosella

Rumex obtusifolius

Senecio viscosus

Senecio vulgaris

Senna obtusifolia

Sesbania herbacea

Sicyos angulatus

Sisymbrium offcinale

Solanum carolinense

Solanum ptycanthum

Solidago altissima

Solidago giganteae

Sonchus oleraceus

Symphyotrichum pilosum var. pilosum

Toxicodendron radicans

Trifolium dubium

Trifolium repens

Verbesina alternifolia

Vernonia gigantea

Veronica agrestis

Veronica filiformis

Veronica hederifolia

Veronica peregrina

Veronica persica

Xanthium strumarium