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

Lifecycle

summer annual

Root structure

fibrous

rhizomes present

stolons present

bulb/corm/enlarged stem/nutlet

Common Name Scientific Name

Common name

(24 weeds)

American burnweed

Asiatic tearthumb

bigpod sesbania

common cocklebur

eastern black nightshade

eastern daisy fleabane

Oriental lady's thumb

prairie fleabane

smallflower buttercup

spiny sowthistle

spotted ladysthumb

Scientific Name

(24 weeds)

Bassia scoparia

Erechtites hieracifolia

Erigeron annuus

Erigeron strigosus

Ipomoea coccinea

Ipomoea quamoclit

Nicandra physalodes

Packera glabella

Phyllanthus urinaria

Polygonum caespitosum

Polygonum perfoliatum

Polygonum persicaria

Portulaca oleracea

Ranunculus parviflorus

Senna obtusifolia

Sesbania herbacea

Sicyos angulatus

Solanum ptycanthum

Verbascum thapsus

Xanthium strumarium