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

Leaf arrangement

leaves not present

Leaf margin

entire

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

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

(63 weeds)

American pokeweed

bigpod sesbania

bladder campion

common cocklebur

common plantain

common St. Johnswort

common yellow oxalis

creeping woodsorrel

eastern black nightshade

eastern poison ivy

field pennycress

garden cornflower

garden yellowrocket

ivyleaf morning-glory

Japanese barberry

largebracted plantain

man of the earth

narrowleaf plantain

Oriental lady's thumb

palmleaf morningglory

Pennsylvania smartweed

Powell's amaranth

prairie fleabane

prostrate pigweed

purple loosestrife

roughfruit amaranth

smallflower morningglory

spoonleaf purple everlasting

spotted ladysthumb

spotted St. Johnswort

sweetscented bedstraw

tall globethistle

tall morning-glory

Virginia threeseed mercury

yellow spring bedstraw

Scientific Name

(63 weeds)

Acalypha virginica

Alternanthera philoxeroides

Amaranthus albus

Amaranthus powellii

Amaranthus spinosus

Amaranthus tuberculatus

Arabidopsis thaliana

Asclepias tuberosa

Asimina triloba

Barbarea vulgaris

Bassia scoparia

Bellis perennis

Berberis thunbergii

Brassica juncea

Centaurea cyanus

Cirsium vulgare

Conyza bonariensis

Echinops exaltatus

Erigeron strigosus

Galium odoratum

Gamochaeta purpure

Gleditsia triacanthos

Helenium amarum

Hypericum perforatum

Hypericum punctatum

Ipomoea coccinea

Ipomoea hederacea

Ipomoea pandurata

Ipomoea purpurea

Ipomoea wrightii

Jacquemontia tamnifolia

Lythrum salicaria

Medicago lupulina

Melilotus officinalis

Oxalis corniculata

Phytolacca americana

Plantago aristata

Plantago lanceolata

Polygonum caespitosum

Polygonum pensylvanicum

Polygonum persicaria

Portulaca oleracea

Rumex obtusifolius

Senecio viscosus

Senna obtusifolia

Sesbania herbacea

Silene latifolia ssp. alba

Silene vulgaris

Solanum ptycanthum

Symphoricarpos orbiculatus

Thlaspi arvense

Toxicodendron radicans

Trifolium pratense

Trifolium repens

Verbascum blattaria

Vernonia gigantea

Xanthium strumarium