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

Leaf shape

Leaf arrangement

alternate

leaves not present

Leaf margin

entire

Leaf stalk

shorter than leaf

longer than leaf

Leaf hairs

Stem cross section

square or multi-edged

Stem hairs

I do not know

Thorns or spines

Ochrea

Milky sap

Dominant flower color

Flower symmetry

radial symetery

radial symetery

bilateral symetry

not symmetrical

Flower diameter

Lifecycle

perennial

Root structure

rhizomes present

stolons present

bulb/corm/enlarged stem/nutlet

Common Name Scientific Name

Common name

(24 weeds)

American pokeweed

common yellow oxalis

creeping woodsorrel

eastern poison ivy

Japanese barberry

Japanese knotweed

man of the earth

palmleaf morningglory

purple loosestrife

roundleaf greenbriar

swamp smartweed

tall globethistle

Virginia creeper

Virginia sweetspire

white heath aster

Scientific Name

(24 weeds)

Asclepias tuberosa

Asimina triloba

Berberis thunbergii

Echinops exaltatus

Gleditsia triacanthos

Ipomoea pandurata

Ipomoea wrightii

Lythrum salicaria

Oxalis corniculata

Parthenocissus quinquefolia

Phytolacca americana

Polygonum cuspidatum

Polygonum hydropiperoides

Rhus copallinum

Rumex obtusifolius

Smilax rotundifolia

Symphyotrichum pilosum var. pilosum

Toxicodendron radicans

Trifolium pratense

Trifolium repens

Vernonia gigantea