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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
vine
woody bush or tree
I do not know

Leaf structure

I do not know

simple
trifoliate
pinnate
palmate
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Leaf shape

lance

round
heart
needle
lance
oval
spatulate
triangle
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Leaf arrangement

alternate
opposite
whorled
rosette
leaves not present
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Leaf margin

entire
lobed
serrated
wavy
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Leaf stalk

shorter than leaf

none
shorter than leaf
longer than leaf
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Leaf hairs

has hairs
no hairs
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Stem cross section

round or oval
square or multi-edged
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Stem hairs

has hairs
no hairs
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Thorns or spines

Present
Not Present
I do not know

Ochrea

Present
Not Present
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Milky sap

I do not know

Present
Not Present
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Dominant flower color

white
yellow
blue
purple
red
orange
pink
green
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Flower symmetry

radial symetery
disymetry
bilateral symetry
not symmetrical
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Flower diameter

pencil
dime
nickle
quarter
half dollar
larger
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Lifecycle

summer annual

winter annual
summer annual
biennial
perennial
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Root structure

fibrous
taproot
rhizomes present
stolons present
bulb/corm/enlarged stem/nutlet
I do not know

Common name

(25 weeds)
American burnweed
apple of Peru
bearded beggarticks
bigpod sesbania
common cocklebur
common mullein
curlytop knotweed
devil's beggartick
eastern black nightshade
eastern daisy fleabane
field pansy
Florida beggarweed
great ragweed
hairy vetch
lambsquarters
mat amaranth
Oriental lady's thumb
Pennsylvania smartweed
prairie fleabane
prairie tea
prickly sida
spotted ladysthumb
toothed spurge
vente conmigo
Virginia threeseed mercury

Scientific Name

(25 weeds)
Acalypha virginica
Amaranthus blitoides
Ambrosia trifida
Bidens aristosa
Bidens frondosa
Chenopodium album
Croton glandulosus var. septentrionalis
Croton monanthogynus
Desmodium tortuosum
Erechtites hieracifolia
Erigeron annuus
Erigeron strigosus
Euphorbia dentata
Nicandra physalodes
Polygonum caespitosum
Polygonum lapathifolium
Polygonum pensylvanicum
Polygonum persicaria
Sesbania herbacea
Sida spinosa
Solanum ptycanthum
Verbascum thapsus
Vicia villosa
Viola bicolor
Xanthium strumarium

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