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

shorter than leaf

longer than leaf

Leaf hairs

Stem cross section

I do not know

square or multi-edged

Stem hairs

Thorns or spines

Ochrea

Not Present

Milky sap

Dominant flower color

Flower symmetry

I do not know

radial symetery

bilateral symetry

not symmetrical

Flower diameter

Lifecycle

perennial

Root structure

rhizomes present

stolons present

bulb/corm/enlarged stem/nutlet

Common Name Scientific Name

Common name

(60 weeds)

American pokeweed

American speedwell

bird's-foot trefoil

bittersweet nightshade

bladder campion

common milkweed

common periwinkle

common persimmon

creeping lespedeza

creeping primrose

eastern poison ivy

European spindletree

Japanese barberry

Japanese honeysuckle

Jerusalem artichoke

man of the earth

Morrow's honeysuckle

orange hawkweed

Oriental bittersweet

panicledleaf ticktrefoil

perplexed ticktrefoil

plantain-leaved pussytoes

roundleaf greenbriar

spotted St. Johnswort

Tatarian honeysuckle

thymeleaf speedwell

Virginia bluebells

Virginia creeper

Virginia sweetspire

wild blue phlox

yellow passionflower

Scientific Name

(60 weeds)

Albizia julibrissin

Antennaria plantaginifolia

Apocynum cannabinum

Asclepias syriaca

Asclepias tuberosa

Asimina triloba

Bellis perennis

Berberis thunbergii

Calystegia sepium

Carya illinoinensis

Celastrus orbiculatus

Cercis canadensis

Coronilla varia

Desmodium paniculatum

Desmodium perplexum

Dioscorea bulbifera

Diospyros virginiana

Elaeagnus umbellata

Euonymus europaeus

Gleditsia triacanthos

Helianthus tuberosus

Hieracium aurantiacum

Hypericum punctatum

Ipomoea pandurata

Lathyrus latifolius

Lespedeza repens

Ligustrum sinense

Lonicera japonica

Lonicera morrowii

Lonicera tatarica

Lotus corniculatus

Ludwigia palustris

Maclura pomifera

Mertensia virginica

Monarda citriodora

Nyssa sylvatica

Oxydendrum arboreum

Parthenocissus quinquefolia

Passiflora lutea

Phlox divaricata

Phlox paniculata

Phytolacca americana

Quercus virginiana

Sassafras albidum

Silene latifolia ssp. alba

Silene vulgaris

Smilax rotundifolia

Solanum dulcamara

Symphoricarpos orbiculatus

Toxicodendron radicans

Trifolium pratense

Trifolium repens

Vernonia gigantea

Veronica americana

Veronica serpyllifolia