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

I do not know

Leaf arrangement

leaves not present

Leaf margin

entire

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

Lifecycle

summer annual

Root structure

I do not know

rhizomes present

stolons present

bulb/corm/enlarged stem/nutlet

Common Name Scientific Name

Common name

(57 weeds)

Asiatic dayflower

Asiatic tearthumb

bigpod sesbania

climbing dayflower

common cocklebur

curlytop knotweed

eastern black nightshade

Florida beggarweed

green carpetweed

ivyleaf morning-glory

Japanese clover

kiss me over the garden gate

lanceleaf ragweed

northern jointvetch

Oriental lady's thumb

Palmer amaranth

Pennsylvania smartweed

piedmont bedstraw

Powell's amaranth

prairie fleabane

prickly Russian thistle

prostrate pigweed

purple ammannia

roughfruit amaranth

sensitive partridge pea

showy rattlebox

slender amaranth

smallflower morningglory

spiny sowthistle

spotted ladysthumb

tall morning-glory

Virginia threeseed mercury

Scientific Name

(57 weeds)

Acalypha virginica

Aeschynomene virginica

Amaranthus albus

Amaranthus blitoides

Amaranthus hybridus

Amaranthus palmeri

Amaranthus powellii

Amaranthus spinosus

Amaranthus tuberculatus

Amaranthus viridis

Ambrosia bidentata

Ammannia coccinea

Amphicarpa bracteata

Anthemis arvensis

Bassia scoparia

Chamaecrista fasciculata

Chamaecrista nictitans ssp. nictitans var. nictitans

Chenopodium album

Chenopodium ambrosioides

Commelina communis

Commelina diffusa

Conyza bonariensis

Crotalaria spectabilis

Croton monanthogynus

Cruciata pedemontana

Desmodium tortuosum

Erigeron strigosus

Ipomoea coccinea

Ipomoea hederacea

Ipomoea lacunosa

Ipomoea purpurea

Ipomoea quamoclit

Jacquemontia tamnifolia

Kummerowia striata

Matricaria discoidea

Medicago lupulina

Mollugo verticillata

Phyllanthus urinaria

Polygonum caespitosum

Polygonum convolvulus

Polygonum lapathifolium

Polygonum orientale

Polygonum pensylvanicum

Polygonum perfoliatum

Polygonum persicaria

Portulaca oleracea

Senna obtusifolia

Sesbania herbacea

Solanum ptycanthum

Vigna unguiculata

Xanthium strumarium