Weeds Identification

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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

Leaf shape

oval

Leaf arrangement

leaves not present

Leaf margin

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

Not Present

Dominant flower color

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

(94 weeds)

American burnweed

American pokeweed

bird's-foot trefoil

blackeyed Susan

bladder campion

Canada toadflax

Chinese wisteria

clammy groundcherry

common cocklebur

common evening primrose

common plantain

common selfheal

common St. Johnswort

common sunflower

eastern black nightshade

eastern daisy fleabane

eastern poison ivy

field pennycress

Florida beggarweed

Fuller's teasel

garden yellowrocket

giant goldenrod

green field speedwell

hairy bittercress

hophornbeam copperleaf

Indian strawberry

Japanese barberry

Japanese clover

Jerusalem artichoke

northern dewberry

Oriental bittersweet

Palmer amaranth

panicledleaf ticktrefoil

perplexed ticktrefoil

Powell's amaranth

prairie fleabane

prostrate knotweed

prostrate pigweed

purple loosestrife

purple passionflower

roughfruit amaranth

sensitive partridge pea

sericea lespedeza

showy rattlebox

slender amaranth

smallflower morningglory

spotted knapweed

spotted St. Johnswort

tall globethistle

Virginia strawberry

white ballmustard

white snakeroot

Scientific Name

(94 weeds)

Acalypha ostryifolia

Ageratina altissima

Alternanthera philoxeroides

Amaranthus albus

Amaranthus hybridus

Amaranthus palmeri

Amaranthus powellii

Amaranthus spinosus

Amaranthus tuberculatus

Amaranthus viridis

Ambrosia artemisiifolia

Arabidopsis thaliana

Arctium tomentosum

Asimina triloba

Barbarea vulgaris

Bellis perennis

Berberis thunbergii

Brassica juncea

Calepina irregularis

Cardamine hirsuta

Celastrus orbiculatus

Centaurea stoebe ssp. micranthos

Chamaecrista fasciculata

Chamaecrista nictitans ssp. nictitans var. nictitans

Chenopodium ambrosioides

Cirsium arvense

Cirsium vulgare

Crotalaria spectabilis

Datura stramonium

Desmodium paniculatum

Desmodium perplexum

Desmodium tortuosum

Dipsacus fullonum

Duchesnea indica

Echinops exaltatus

Elaeagnus umbellata

Erechtites hieracifolia

Erigeron annuus

Erigeron strigosus

Fragaria virginiana

Gleditsia triacanthos

Helianthus annuus

Helianthus tuberosus

Hypericum perforatum

Hypericum punctatum

Ipomoea lacunosa

Jacquemontia tamnifolia

Kummerowia striata

Lespedeza cuneata

Lotus corniculatus

Lythrum salicaria

Medicago lupulina

Melilotus officinalis

Nuttallanthus canadensis

Oenothera biennis

Passiflora incarnata

Physalis heterophylla

Phytolacca americana

Polygonum aviculare

Portulaca oleracea

Prunella vulgaris

Raphanus raphanistrum

Rubus flagellaris

Rudbeckia hirta

Rumex obtusifolius

Senna obtusifolia

Sida rhombifolia

Silene latifolia ssp. alba

Silene vulgaris

Sisymbrium offcinale

Solanum carolinense

Solanum ptycanthum

Solanum rostratum

Solidago giganteae

Symphoricarpos orbiculatus

Thlaspi arvense

Toxicodendron radicans

Trifolium pratense

Trifolium repens

Verbascum blattaria

Verbascum thapsus

Verbena urticifolia

Veronica agrestis

Veronica arvensis

Vigna unguiculata

Wisteria sinensis

Xanthium strumarium