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

I do not know

Leaf stalk

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

radial symetery

bilateral symetry

not symmetrical

Flower diameter

pencil

Lifecycle

Root structure

fibrous

rhizomes present

stolons present

bulb/corm/enlarged stem/nutlet

Common Name Scientific Name

Common name

(42 weeds)

American burnweed

annual sowthistle

bigpod sesbania

Canada goldenrod

common cocklebur

common groundsel

cursed buttercup

cutleaf geranium

eastern black nightshade

eastern daisy fleabane

eastern poison ivy

garden yellowrocket

giant goldenrod

littleleaf buttercup

manyflower marshpennywort

Oriental lady's thumb

philadelphia fleabane

prairie fleabane

small hopclover

smallflower buttercup

spotted ladysthumb

swamp smartweed

Virginia creeper

white heath aster

woodland bittercress

Scientific Name

(42 weeds)

Arabidopsis thaliana

Barbarea vulgaris

Bassia scoparia

Cardamine flexuosa

Conyza canadensis

Erechtites hieracifolia

Erigeron annuus

Erigeron philadelphicus

Erigeron strigosus

Geranium dissectum

Gleditsia triacanthos

Hydrocotyle umbellata

Packera glabella

Parthenocissus quinquefolia

Phyllanthus urinaria

Polygonum caespitosum

Polygonum hydropiperoides

Polygonum persicaria

Portulaca oleracea

Ranunculus abortivus

Ranunculus parviflorus

Ranunculus sceleratus

Rumex obtusifolius

Senecio vulgaris

Senna obtusifolia

Sesbania herbacea

Sicyos angulatus

Solanum carolinense

Solanum ptycanthum

Solidago altissima

Solidago giganteae

Sonchus oleraceus

Symphyotrichum pilosum var. pilosum

Toxicodendron radicans

Trifolium dubium

Trifolium repens

Vernonia gigantea

Xanthium strumarium