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

lance

Leaf arrangement

leaves not present

Leaf margin

Leaf stalk

shorter than leaf

longer than leaf

Leaf hairs

Stem cross section

round or oval

square or multi-edged

Stem hairs

Thorns or spines

Ochrea

I do not know

Milky sap

Dominant flower color

pink

Flower symmetry

radial symetery

bilateral symetry

not symmetrical

Flower diameter

Lifecycle

I do not know

Root structure

rhizomes present

stolons present

bulb/corm/enlarged stem/nutlet

Common Name Scientific Name

Common name

(23 weeds)

American burnweed

curlytop knotweed

Florida beggarweed

garden cornflower

Oriental lady's thumb

palmleaf morningglory

panicledleaf ticktrefoil

Pennsylvania smartweed

prickly Russian thistle

purple ammannia

purple passionflower

rabbitfoot clover

spiny plumeless thistle

spotted knapweed

spotted sandmat

swamp smartweed

white heath aster

Scientific Name

(23 weeds)

Ammannia coccinea

Angelica venenosa

Carduus acanthoides

Centaurea cyanus

Centaurea stoebe ssp. micranthos

Chamaesyce maculata

Clinopodium vulgare

Desmodium paniculatum

Desmodium tortuosum

Dianthus armeria

Erechtites hieracifolia

Ipomoea wrightii

Lathyrus latifolius

Passiflora incarnata

Polygonum caespitosum

Polygonum hydropiperoides

Polygonum lapathifolium

Polygonum pensylvanicum

Symphyotrichum pilosum var. pilosum

Trifolium arvense