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

Leaf stalk

I do not know

shorter than leaf

longer than leaf

Leaf hairs

Stem cross section

square or multi-edged

Stem hairs

Thorns or spines

Ochrea

Not Present

Milky sap

Not Present

Dominant flower color

white

Flower symmetry

radial symetery

bilateral symetry

not symmetrical

Flower diameter

Lifecycle

Root structure

taproot

rhizomes present

stolons present

bulb/corm/enlarged stem/nutlet

Common Name Scientific Name

Common name

(68 weeds)

American burnweed

American pokeweed

bigpod sesbania

bladder campion

Canada toadflax

Carolina geranium

Carolina ponysfoot

common cocklebur

common evening primrose

common plantain

eastern black nightshade

eastern daisy fleabane

eastern poison ivy

field pennycress

field pepperweed

flower of an hour

Fuller's teasel

garden cornflower

green field speedwell

hairy bittercress

ivyleaf morning-glory

largebracted plantain

man of the earth

northern dewberry

prairie fleabane

prickly Russian thistle

purple passionflower

Queen Anne's lace

sericea lespedeza

shepherd's purse

spoonleaf purple everlasting

sweetscented bedstraw

tall globethistle

tall morning-glory

Virginia strawberry

white ballmustard

white snakeroot

Scientific Name

(68 weeds)

Ageratina altissima

Ailanthus altissima

Alternanthera philoxeroides

Angelica venenosa

Anthemis arvensis

Arabidopsis thaliana

Arctium tomentosum

Bellis perennis

Buglossoides arvensis

Calepina irregularis

Capsella bursa-pastoris

Cardamine hirsuta

Centaurea cyanus

Conium maculatum

Conyza bonariensis

Conyza canadensis

Datura stramonium

Dichondra carolinensis

Dipsacus fullonum

Echinops exaltatus

Eclipta prostrata

Elaeagnus umbellata

Erechtites hieracifolia

Erigeron annuus

Erigeron strigosus

Eupatorium capillifolium

Fragaria virginiana

Galium odoratum

Gamochaeta purpure

Geranium carolinianum

Hibiscus trionum

Ipomoea hederacea

Ipomoea lacunosa

Ipomoea pandurata

Ipomoea purpurea

Lathyrus latifolius

Lepidium campestre

Lespedeza cuneata

Melilotus officinalis

Nuttallanthus canadensis

Oenothera biennis

Passiflora incarnata

Phytolacca americana

Plantago aristata

Portulaca oleracea

Rubus flagellaris

Sesbania herbacea

Sicyos angulatus

Sida rhombifolia

Silene latifolia ssp. alba

Silene vulgaris

Solanum ptycanthum

Symphoricarpos orbiculatus

Thlaspi arvense

Toxicodendron radicans

Trifolium repens

Verbascum thapsus

Verbena urticifolia

Veronica agrestis

Veronica arvensis

Xanthium strumarium