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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

I do not know

Leaf shape

Leaf arrangement

leaves not present

Leaf margin

Leaf stalk

I do not know

shorter than leaf

longer than leaf

Leaf hairs

Stem cross section

I do not know

square or multi-edged

Stem hairs

Thorns or spines

Ochrea

Milky sap

I do not know

Dominant flower color

Flower symmetry

radial symetery

bilateral symetry

not symmetrical

Flower diameter

Lifecycle

I do not know

Root structure

rhizomes present

stolons present

bulb/corm/enlarged stem/nutlet

Common Name Scientific Name

Common name

(584 weeds)

Adam and Eve orchid

allegheny monkeyflower

American barberry

American basswood

American beautyberry

American black elderberry

American burnweed

American climbing fern

American false pennyroyal

American hazelnut

American pokeweed

American speedwell

American sycamore

American water-willow

American white waterlily

Amur honeysuckle

annual sowthistle

annual trampweed

Asian ponysfoot

Asiatic dayflower

Asiatic tearthumb

Australian water-clover

bearded beggarticks

biennial beeblossom

bigpod sesbania

bird's-foot trefoil

bitternut hickory

bittersweet nightshade

black highbush blueberry

black huckleberry

black nightshade

black raspberry

blackeyed Susan

bladder campion

blue huckleberry

blue mistflower

Boston swordfern

Brazilian watermeal

Brazilian waterweed

brittle waternymph

broadleaf helleborine

broadleaf ironweed

broadleaf pondweed

browneyed Susan

brownray knapweed

butter and eggs

camphor pluchea

Canada goldenrod

Canada toadflax

Canadian blacksnakeroot

Canadian clearweed

Canadian lousewort

Carolina desert-chicory

Carolina elephantsfoot

Carolina geranium

Carolina mosquitofern

Carolina ponysfoot

chameleon plant

Chinese chestnut

Chinese sweetshrub

Chinese wisteria

clammy groundcherry

climbing dayflower

coastal sweetpepperbush

cockspur hawthorn

common blue violet

common buttonbush

common chickweed

common cinquefoil

common cocklebur

common cowparsnip

common dandelion

common duckmeat

common duckweed

common evening primrose

common groundsel

common milkweed

common mouse-ear chickweed

common nipplewort

common periwinkle

common persimmon

common plantain

common selfheal

common sheep sorrel

common speedwell

common St. Johnswort

common sunflower

common sweetleaf

common threeseed mercury

common viper's bugloss

common yellow oxalis

creeping lespedeza

creeping primrose

creeping strawberry bush

creeping woodsorrel

creeping yellowcress

curlytop knotweed

cursed buttercup

cutleaf evening primrose

cutleaf geranium

devil in the bush

devil's beggartick

devil's grandmother

devil's walkingstick

dotted smartweed

dovefoot geranium

early yellowrocket

eastern baccharis

eastern black nightshade

eastern cottonwood

eastern daisy fleabane

eastern poison ivy

eastern redcedar

Eurasian watermilfoil

European cranberrybush

European field pansy

European spindletree

Fernald's yellowcress

field horsetail

field pennycress

field pepperweed

field pussytoes

floating marshpennywort

floating primrose-willow

Florida beggarweed

flower of an hour

flowering quince

Fuller's teasel

gallant soldier

garden asparagus

garden cornflower

garden valerian

garden yellowrocket

germander speedwell

giant goldenrod

glossy buckthorn

golden chain tree

grass-like starwort

great blue lobelia

green carpetweed

green field speedwell

Guadeloupe cucumber

hairy bittercress

hairy cat's ear

harlequin glorybower

heavenly bamboo

henbit deadnettle

honeyvine milkweed

hophornbeam copperleaf

horned pondweed

humped bladderwort

hyssopleaf thoroughwort

Indian strawberry

ivyleaf morning-glory

ivyleaf speedwell

jagged chickweed

Japanese barberry

Japanese clover

Japanese flowering cherry

Japanese honeysuckle

Japanese knotweed

Japanese spindletree

Japanese spirea

Jerusalem artichoke

kidneyleaf mudplantain

kiss me over the garden gate

lanceleaf ragweed

large hopclover

largebracted plantain

largepod pinweed

lateflowering thoroughwort

lawn marshpennywort

lesser calamint

lesser swinecress

little floatingheart

littleleaf buttercup

littlepod false flax

long-stalked phyllanthus

longleaf groundcherry

longleaf pondweed

man of the earth

manyflower marshpennywort

maroon Carolina milkvine

Maryland goldenaster

Maryland meadowbeauty

mayweed chamomile

meadow hawkweed

Mexican fireplant

mockernut hickory

Morrow's honeysuckle

mountain fetterbush

mountain laurel

multiflora rose

narrowleaf hawksbeard

narrowleaf mountainmint

narrowleaf pinweed

narrowleaf plantain

navel cornsalad

nettleleaf noseburn

northern bog violet

northern catalpa

northern dewberry

northern jointvetch

northern red oak

Norwegian cinquefoil

orange hawkweed

Oriental bittersweet

Oriental lady's thumb

ornamental jewelweed

Palmer amaranth

palmleaf morningglory

panicledleaf ticktrefoil

parrot feather watermilfoil

Pennsylvania smartweed

perennial sowthistle

perplexed ticktrefoil

Persian speedwell

philadelphia fleabane

piedmont bedstraw

pink woodsorrel

plantain-leaved pussytoes

Powell's amaranth

prairie broomweed

prairie fleabane

prickly lettuce

prickly Russian thistle

prostrate knotweed

prostrate pigweed

purple ammannia

purple deadnettle

purple loosestrife

purple passionflower

purslane speedwell

Queen Anne's lace

rabbitfoot clover

red stemmed parrots feather

redosier dogwood

redroot amaranth

redstem stork's bill

rice button aster

roadside pennycress

roughfruit amaranth

roundleaf greenbriar

saucer magnolia

sawtooth blackberry

scarlet pimpernel

sensitive partridge pea

sentless false mayweed

sericea lespedeza

sharpleaf cancerwort

shepherd's purse

shining bedstraw

showy rattlebox

Siberian ligularia

silverleaf nightshade

silvery everlasting

slender amaranth

slender parsley piert

small hopclover

smallflower buttercup

smallflower morningglory

smallspike false nettle

smooth bedstraw

smooth bedstraw

smooth hawksbeard

smooth rattlebox

southern waternymph

Spanish needles

spiny plumeless thistle

spiny sowthistle

spoonleaf purple everlasting

spotted knapweed

spotted ladysthumb

spotted sandmat

spotted St. Johnswort

spotted water hemlock

St. Andrew's cross

St. Anthony's turnip

sticky chickweed

stinging nettle

stringy stonecrop

striped prince's pine

sulphur cinquefoil

swamp smartweed

sweet autumn virginsbower

sweetscented bedstraw

tall globethistle

tall morning-glory

Tatarian honeysuckle

threadstalk speedwell

throughwort pennycress

Thunbergs meadowsweet

thymeleaf speedwell

trailing pearlwort

tree-of-a-thousand-stars

trumpet creeper

twoheaded water-starwort

twoleaf watermilfoil

violet orychophragmus

Virginia bluebells

Virginia buttonweed

Virginia creeper

Virginia glasswort

Virginia mountainmint

Virginia pepperweed

Virginia strawberry

Virginia sweetspire

Virginia threeseed mercury

waterthread pondweed

western brackenfern

western marsh cudweed

western salsify

white ballmustard

white heath aster

white panicle aster

white snakeroot

whorled yellow loosestrife

wild blue phlox

wild four-o'clock

wild sarsaparilla

winter-flowering cherry

wintergreen barberry

woodland bittercress

woodland lettuce

yellow archangel

yellow floatingheart

yellow passionflower

yellow spring bedstraw

Scientific Name

(584 weeds)

Abutilon theophrasti

Acalypha ostryifolia

Acalypha rhomboidea

Acalypha virginica

Acer rubrum var. trilobum

Achillea millefolium

Actaea racemosa var. racemosa

Actinidia chinensis

Aegopodium podagraria

Aeschynomene virginica

Ageratina altissima

Agrimonia parviflora

Ailanthus altissima

Albizia julibrissin

Alliaria petiolata

Alnus serrulata

Alternanthera philoxeroides

Amaranthus albus

Amaranthus blitoides

Amaranthus hybridus

Amaranthus palmeri

Amaranthus powellii

Amaranthus retroflexus

Amaranthus spinosus

Amaranthus tuberculatus

Amaranthus viridis

Ambrosia artemisiifolia

Ambrosia bidentata

Ambrosia trifida

Ammannia coccinea

Ampelamus albidus

Amphiachyris dracunculoides

Amphicarpa bracteata

Anagallis arvensis

Angelica venenosa

Antennaria neglecta

Antennaria plantaginifolia

Anthemis arvensis

Anthemis cotula

Aphanes arvensis

Apios americana

Aplectrum hyemale

Apocynum cannabinum

Arabidopsis thaliana

Aralia nudicaulis

Arctium tomentosum

Artemisia absinthium

Artemisia annua

Artemisia vulgaris

Asclepias physocarpa

Asclepias syriaca

Asclepias tuberosa

Asimina triloba

Asparagus officinalis

Azolla caroliniana

Baccharis halimifolia

Barbarea vulgaris

Bassia scoparia

Bellis perennis

Berberis canadensis

Berberis julianae

Berberis thunbergii

Bidens aristosa

Bidens bipinnata

Bidens frondosa

Boehmeria cylindrica

Brasenia schreberi

Brassica juncea

Broussonetia papyrifera

Buglossoides arvensis

Bupleurum rotundifolium

Calamintha nepeta

Calepina irregularis

Callicarpa americana

Callitriche heterophylla

Calocedrus decurrens

Calycanthus chinensis

Calystegia sepium

Camelina microcarpa

Campsis radicans

Capsella bursa-pastoris

Cardamine flexuosa

Cardamine hirsuta

Carduus acanthoides

Carya cordiformis

Carya illinoinensis

Castanea mollissima

Catalpa speciosa

Celastrus orbiculatus

Centaurea cyanus

Centaurea jacea

Centaurea stoebe ssp. micranthos

Cephalanthus occidentalis

Cerastium fontanum

Cerastium fontanum ssp. vulgare

Cerastium glomeratum

Ceratophyllum demersum

Cercis canadensis

Chaenomeles japonica

Chaenomeles speciosa

Chamaecrista fasciculata

Chamaecrista nictitans ssp. nictitans var. nictitans

Chamaesyce maculata

Chamaesyce nutans

Chenopodium album

Chenopodium ambrosioides

Chimaphila maculata

Chrysopsis mariana

Cichorium intybus

Cicuta maculata

Cirsium arvense

Cirsium vulgare

Clematis terniflora

Clerodendrum chinense

Clerodendrum trichotomum

Clethra alnifolia

Clinopodium vulgare

Commelina communis

Commelina diffusa

Conium maculatum

Conoclinium coelestinum

Convolvulus arvensis

Conyza bonariensis

Conyza canadensis

Coronilla varia

Coronopus didymus

Corylus americana

Crataegus crus-galli

Crataegus viridis

Crepis capillaris

Crepis tectorum

Crotalaria pallida var. obovata

Crotalaria spectabilis

Croton capitatus

Croton glandulosus var. septentrionalis

Croton monanthogynus

Cruciata laevipes

Cruciata pedemontana

Cuphea viscosissima

Cydonia oblonga

Cynara cardunculus

Cytisus scoparius

Datura stramonium

Desmodium paniculatum

Desmodium perplexum

Desmodium tortuosum

Dianthus armeria

Dicentra canadensis

Dichondra carolinensis

Dichondra micrantha

Diodia virginiana

Dioscorea bulbifera

Dioscorea oppositifolia

Diospyros virginiana

Dipsacus fullonum

Duchesnea indica

Echinops exaltatus

Eclipta prostrata

Elaeagnus umbellata

Elephantopus carolinianus

Elephantopus tomentosus

Epipactis helleborine

Equisetum arvense

Erechtites hieracifolia

Erigeron annuus

Erigeron philadelphicus

Erigeron strigosus

Erodium cicutarium

Euonymus alatus

Euonymus americanus

Euonymus europaeus

Euonymus japonica

Euonymus kiautschovicus

Eupatorium capillifolium

Eupatorium hyssopifolium

Eupatorium serotinum

Euphorbia cyparissias

Euphorbia dentata

Euphorbia helioscopia

Euphorbia heterophylla

Euphorbia lathyris

Euphorbia peplus

Eutrochium fistulosum

Fagus grandifolia

Foeniculum vulgare

Fragaria virginiana

Fraxinus americana

Fraxinus pennsylvanica

Galinsoga parviflora

Galinsoga quadriradiata

Galium concinnum

Galium odoratum

Gamochaeta argyrinea

Gamochaeta purpure

Gaylussacia baccata

Gaylussacia frondosa

Geranium carolinianum

Geranium dissectum

Geranium pusillum

Glechoma hederacea

Gleditsia triacanthos

Gnaphalium palustre

Gratiola officinalis

Guizotia abyssinica

Haracleum maximum

Hedeoma pulegioides

Helenium amarum

Helianthus annuus

Helianthus mollis

Helianthus simulans

Helianthus tuberosus

Hesperis matronalis

Heteranthera reniformis

Hibiscus trionum

Hieracium aurantiacum

Hieracium caespitosum

Holosteum umbellatum

Houttuynia cordata

Humulus japonicus

Humulus lupulus

Hydrilla verticillata

Hydrocotyle ranunculoides

Hydrocotyle sibthorpioides

Hydrocotyle umbellata

Hypericum hypericoides

Hypericum perforatum

Hypericum punctatum

Hypochaeris radicata

Impatiens capensis

Impatiens glandulifera

Ipomoea coccinea

Ipomoea hederacea

Ipomoea lacunosa

Ipomoea pandurata

Ipomoea purpurea

Ipomoea quamoclit

Ipomoea wrightii

Jacquemontia tamnifolia

Juniperus virginiana

Justicia americana

Kalmia latifolia

Kalopanax septemlobus

Kickxia elatine

Kummerowia striata

Laburnum anagyroides

Lactuca Canadensis

Lactuca floridana

Lactuca serriola

Lagerstroemia indica

Lamiastrum galeobdolon

Lamium amplexicaule

Lamium purpureum

Lapsana communis

Lathyrus hirsutus

Lathyrus latifolius

Lechea intermedia

Lechea tenuifolia

Lemna valdiviana

Lepidium campestre

Lepidium virginicum

Lespedeza cuneata

Lespedeza repens

Leucanthemum vulgare

Ligularia sibirica

Ligustrum sinense

Linaria vulgaris

Liquidambar styraciflua

Liriodendron tulipifera

Lobelia siphilitica

Lonicera japonica

Lonicera maackii

Lonicera morrowii

Lonicera tatarica

Lotus corniculatus

Ludwigia palustris

Ludwigia peploides

Lycium barbarum

Lycopodium digitatum

Lycopodium obscurum

Lygodium palmatum

Lysimachia quadrifolia

Lythrum salicaria

Macfadyena unguis-cati

Macleaya cordata

Maclura pomifera

Magnolia acuminata

Magnolia soulangeana

Marsilea mutica

Matelea carolinensis

Matricaria discoidea

Medicago lupulina

Melia azedarach

Melilotus officinalis

Melissa officinalis

Melothria pendula

Mentha x piperita

Mertensia virginica

Microthlaspi perfoliatum

Mimulus ringens

Mirabilis nyctaginea

Mollugo verticillata

Momordica charantia

Monarda citriodora

Morella cerifera

Murdannia nudiflora

Myriophyllum aquaticum

Myriophyllum brasiliensis

Myriophyllum heterophyllum

Myriophyllum spicatum

Najas guadalupensis

Nandina domestica

Nasturtium officinale

Nephrolepis exaltata

Nicandra physalodes

Nigella damascena

Nuttallanthus canadensis

Nymphaea odorata

Nymphoides cordata

Nymphoides peltata

Nyssa sylvatica

Oenothera biennis

Oenothera laciniata

Onoclea sensibilis

Origanum vulgare

Orychophragmus violaceus

Oxalis corniculata

Oxydendrum arboreum

Packera glabella

Parthenocissus quinquefolia

Passiflora incarnata

Passiflora lutea

Pastinaca sativa

Paulownia tomentosa

Pedicularis canadensis

Perilla frutescens

Persea palustris

Phlox divaricata

Phlox paniculata

Phyllanthus tenellus

Phyllanthus urinaria

Physalis heterophylla

Physalis longifolia var. subglabrata

Phytolacca americana

Pieris floribunda

Plantago aristata

Plantago lanceolata

Platanus occidentalis

Pluchea camphorata

Podophyllum peltatum

Polygonum aviculare

Polygonum caespitosum

Polygonum convolvulus

Polygonum cuspidatum

Polygonum hydropiperoides

Polygonum lapathifolium

Polygonum orientale

Polygonum pensylvanicum

Polygonum perfoliatum

Polygonum persicaria

Polygonum punctatum var. confertiflorum

Poncirus trifoliata

Populus deltoides

Portulaca oleracea

Portulaca pilosa

Potamogeton crispus

Potamogeton diversifolius

Potamogeton foliosus

Potamogeton nodosus

Potamogeton pusillus

Potentilla norvegica

Potentilla recta

Potentilla simplex

Proboscidea louisianica

Prunella vulgaris

Prunus americana

Prunus serotina

Prunus serrulata

Prunus subhirtella

Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium

Pteridium aquilinum

Pueraria montana var. lobata

Punica granatum

Pycnanthemum tenuifolium

Pycnanthemum virginianum

Pyrrhopappus carolinianus

Pyrularia pubera

Pyrus pyrifolia

Quercus acutissima

Quercus virginiana

Ranunculus abortivus

Ranunculus bulbosus

Ranunculus parviflorus

Ranunculus sceleratus

Raphanus raphanistrum

Rheum rhaponticum

Rhodotypos scandens

Rhus copallinum

Robinia pseudoacacia

Robinia viscosa

Rorippa palustris spp. fernaldiana

Rorippa sylvestris

Rosa multiflora

Rubus flagellaris

Rubus occidentalis

Rubus phoenicolasius

Rudbeckia hirta

Rudbeckia triloba

Rumex acetosella

Rumex obtusifolius

Sagina decumbens

Salicornea virginica

Sambucus nigra ssp. canadensis

Sanicula canadensis

Saponaria officinalis

Sassafras albidum

Scleranthus annuus

Sedum sarmentosum

Senecio viscosus

Senecio vulgaris

Senna obtusifolia

Serissa foetida

Sesbania herbacea

Sherardia arvensis

Sicyos angulatus

Sida rhombifolia

Silene latifolia ssp. alba

Silene vulgaris

Sinapis arvensis ssp. arvensis

Sisymbrium offcinale

Smilax rotundifolia

Solanum carolinense

Solanum dulcamara

Solanum elaeagnifolium

Solanum ptycanthum

Solanum rostratum

Solidago altissima

Solidago giganteae

Soliva sessilis

Sonchus arvensis

Sonchus oleraceus

Spergula arvensis

Spergularia rubra

Spiraea japonica

Spiraea thunbergii

Spirodela polyrrhiza

Stellaria graminea

Stellaria media

Stuckenia pectinata

Symphoricarpos orbiculatus

Symphyotrichum dumosum

Symphyotrichum laeve

Symphyotrichum lanceolatum

Symphyotrichum pilosum var. pilosum

Symplocos tinctoria

Tanacetum vulgare

Taraxacum officinale

Thlaspi alliaceum

Thlaspi arvense

Tilia americana

Toxicodendron radicans

Tradescantia ohiensis

Tragia urticifolia

Tragopogon dubius

Triadica sebifera

Trifolium arvense

Trifolium aureum

Trifolium campestre

Trifolium dubium

Trifolium pratense

Trifolium repens

Tripleurospermum perforatum

Tussilago farfara

Utricularia gibba

Vaccinium fuscatum

Valeriana officinalis

Valerianella umbilicata

Verbascum blattaria

Verbascum thapsus

Verbena hastata

Verbena urticifolia

Verbesina alternifolia

Verbesina occidentalis

Vernonia gigantea

Vernonia glauca

Veronica agrestis

Veronica americana

Veronica arvensis

Veronica chamaedrys

Veronica filiformis

Veronica hederifolia

Veronica officinalis

Veronica peregrina

Veronica persica

Veronica serpyllifolia

Viburnum opulus

Viburnum prunifolium

Viburnum rufidulum

Viccinium stamineum

Vigna unguiculata

Viola nephrophylla

Wisteria sinensis

Wolffia brasiliensis

Xanthium strumarium

Zannichellia palustris