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

I do not know

Leaf shape

oval

Leaf arrangement

leaves not present

Leaf margin

Leaf stalk

shorter than leaf

shorter than leaf

longer than leaf

Leaf hairs

Stem cross section

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

summer annual

Root structure

I do not know

rhizomes present

stolons present

bulb/corm/enlarged stem/nutlet

Common Name Scientific Name

Common name

(33 weeds)

American burnweed

common cocklebur

common sunflower

eastern black nightshade

eastern daisy fleabane

Florida beggarweed

green field speedwell

hophornbeam copperleaf

Japanese clover

mayweed chamomile

prairie fleabane

prostrate knotweed

prostrate pigweed

roughfruit amaranth

sensitive partridge pea

showy rattlebox

slender amaranth

Scientific Name

(33 weeds)

Acalypha ostryifolia

Amaranthus albus

Amaranthus hybridus

Amaranthus spinosus

Amaranthus tuberculatus

Amaranthus viridis

Ambrosia artemisiifolia

Amphicarpa bracteata

Anthemis cotula

Chamaecrista nictitans ssp. nictitans var. nictitans

Crotalaria spectabilis

Datura stramonium

Desmodium tortuosum

Erechtites hieracifolia

Erigeron annuus

Erigeron strigosus

Euphorbia dentata

Helianthus annuus

Impatiens capensis

Ipomoea lacunosa

Kummerowia striata

Medicago lupulina

Polygonum aviculare

Senna obtusifolia

Sida rhombifolia

Solanum ptycanthum

Verbascum thapsus

Veronica agrestis

Xanthium strumarium