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

I do not know

leaves not present

Leaf margin

Leaf stalk

shorter than leaf

longer than leaf

Leaf hairs

Stem cross section

square or multi-edged

Stem hairs

Thorns or spines

I do not know

Ochrea

Milky sap

I do not know

Dominant flower color

Flower symmetry

radial symetery

bilateral symetry

not symmetrical

Flower diameter

pencil

Lifecycle

Root structure

rhizomes present

stolons present

bulb/corm/enlarged stem/nutlet

Common Name Scientific Name

Common name

(109 weeds)

American burnweed

American speedwell

Asiatic dayflower

bearded beggarticks

bigpod sesbania

bird's-foot trefoil

bladder campion

Canada goldenrod

climbing dayflower

common chickweed

common cocklebur

common groundsel

common milkweed

common selfheal

common sheep sorrel

common speedwell

common viper's bugloss

curlytop knotweed

cursed buttercup

early yellowrocket

eastern black nightshade

eastern daisy fleabane

European spindletree

field pennycress

field pepperweed

Florida beggarweed

Fuller's teasel

giant goldenrod

heavenly bamboo

honeyvine milkweed

jagged chickweed

lanceleaf ragweed

largebracted plantain

narrowleaf hawksbeard

narrowleaf plantain

Norwegian cinquefoil

orange hawkweed

Oriental lady's thumb

palmleaf morningglory

panicledleaf ticktrefoil

perplexed ticktrefoil

piedmont bedstraw

plantain-leaved pussytoes

prairie fleabane

prickly Russian thistle

purple ammannia

purple deadnettle

purslane speedwell

sericea lespedeza

smooth bedstraw

smooth hawksbeard

Spanish needles

spotted knapweed

spotted ladysthumb

spotted sandmat

spotted St. Johnswort

swamp smartweed

sweetscented bedstraw

thymeleaf speedwell

Virginia buttonweed

Virginia creeper

Virginia strawberry

white heath aster

yellow spring bedstraw

Scientific Name

(109 weeds)

Achillea millefolium

Ailanthus altissima

Ambrosia bidentata

Ambrosia trifida

Ammannia coccinea

Ampelamus albidus

Antennaria plantaginifolia

Apocynum cannabinum

Arabidopsis thaliana

Artemisia absinthium

Artemisia annua

Artemisia vulgaris

Asclepias syriaca

Bassia scoparia

Bidens aristosa

Bidens bipinnata

Buglossoides arvensis

Centaurea stoebe ssp. micranthos

Chamaesyce maculata

Chenopodium album

Commelina communis

Commelina diffusa

Conyza bonariensis

Crepis capillaris

Crepis tectorum

Croton glandulosus var. septentrionalis

Croton monanthogynus

Cruciata pedemontana

Desmodium paniculatum

Desmodium perplexum

Desmodium tortuosum

Diodia virginiana

Dipsacus fullonum

Eclipta prostrata

Erechtites hieracifolia

Erigeron annuus

Erigeron strigosus

Euonymus alatus

Euonymus europaeus

Euphorbia helioscopia

Fragaria virginiana

Galium odoratum

Gleditsia triacanthos

Hieracium aurantiacum

Holosteum umbellatum

Hypericum punctatum

Ipomoea wrightii

Lactuca Canadensis

Lamium purpureum

Lathyrus hirsutus

Lepidium campestre

Lespedeza cuneata

Lotus corniculatus

Matricaria discoidea

Nandina domestica

Oxydendrum arboreum

Parthenocissus quinquefolia

Pastinaca sativa

Phyllanthus urinaria

Plantago aristata

Plantago lanceolata

Polygonum caespitosum

Polygonum hydropiperoides

Polygonum lapathifolium

Polygonum persicaria

Portulaca pilosa

Potentilla norvegica

Prunella vulgaris

Ranunculus sceleratus

Raphanus raphanistrum

Rhus copallinum

Rumex acetosella

Sassafras albidum

Scleranthus annuus

Senecio vulgaris

Sesbania herbacea

Sherardia arvensis

Silene latifolia ssp. alba

Sisymbrium offcinale

Solanum carolinense

Solanum ptycanthum

Solidago altissima

Solidago giganteae

Stellaria media

Symphyotrichum pilosum var. pilosum

Thlaspi arvense

Verbena urticifolia

Verbesina alternifolia

Vernonia gigantea

Veronica americana

Veronica arvensis

Veronica officinalis

Veronica peregrina

Veronica serpyllifolia

Xanthium strumarium