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

simple

Leaf shape

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

(162 weeds)

American barberry

American burnweed

American pokeweed

American speedwell

annual sowthistle

Asiatic dayflower

bladder campion

Canada goldenrod

Carolina elephantsfoot

Carolina ponysfoot

climbing dayflower

common cocklebur

common groundsel

common milkweed

common mouse-ear chickweed

common plantain

common selfheal

common sheep sorrel

common speedwell

common viper's bugloss

curlytop knotweed

cursed buttercup

cutleaf geranium

early yellowrocket

eastern black nightshade

eastern daisy fleabane

European spindletree

field pennycress

field pepperweed

Florida beggarweed

Fuller's teasel

garden yellowrocket

giant goldenrod

green carpetweed

green field speedwell

henbit deadnettle

honeyvine milkweed

hophornbeam copperleaf

hyssopleaf thoroughwort

ivyleaf speedwell

jagged chickweed

Japanese barberry

Japanese honeysuckle

Japanese knotweed

lanceleaf ragweed

largebracted plantain

littleleaf buttercup

manyflower marshpennywort

meadow hawkweed

Morrow's honeysuckle

narrowleaf hawksbeard

narrowleaf plantain

northern catalpa

northern red oak

orange hawkweed

Oriental bittersweet

Oriental lady's thumb

Palmer amaranth

Persian speedwell

philadelphia fleabane

plantain-leaved pussytoes

prairie fleabane

prickly lettuce

prickly Russian thistle

prostrate pigweed

purple ammannia

purple deadnettle

purslane speedwell

redroot amaranth

roadside pennycress

roughfruit amaranth

scarlet pimpernel

shepherd's purse

showy rattlebox

smallflower buttercup

smallflower morningglory

smooth bedstraw

smooth bedstraw

smooth hawksbeard

Spanish needles

spotted knapweed

spotted ladysthumb

spotted sandmat

spotted St. Johnswort

sticky chickweed

swamp smartweed

sweetscented bedstraw

Tatarian honeysuckle

threadstalk speedwell

thymeleaf speedwell

Virginia buttonweed

white ballmustard

white heath aster

white snakeroot

yellow spring bedstraw

Scientific Name

(162 weeds)

Acalypha ostryifolia

Acer rubrum var. trilobum

Achillea millefolium

Ageratina altissima

Alternanthera philoxeroides

Amaranthus albus

Amaranthus palmeri

Amaranthus retroflexus

Amaranthus spinosus

Amaranthus tuberculatus

Ambrosia bidentata

Ambrosia trifida

Ammannia coccinea

Ampelamus albidus

Anagallis arvensis

Antennaria plantaginifolia

Apocynum cannabinum

Arabidopsis thaliana

Artemisia absinthium

Artemisia vulgaris

Asclepias syriaca

Asclepias tuberosa

Barbarea vulgaris

Bassia scoparia

Bellis perennis

Berberis canadensis

Berberis thunbergii

Bidens bipinnata

Buglossoides arvensis

Calepina irregularis

Capsella bursa-pastoris

Catalpa speciosa

Celastrus orbiculatus

Centaurea stoebe ssp. micranthos

Cerastium fontanum

Cerastium fontanum ssp. vulgare

Cerastium glomeratum

Cercis canadensis

Chamaesyce maculata

Chenopodium album

Cirsium arvense

Commelina communis

Commelina diffusa

Conyza bonariensis

Conyza canadensis

Crepis capillaris

Crepis tectorum

Crotalaria spectabilis

Croton glandulosus var. septentrionalis

Croton monanthogynus

Cruciata laevipes

Desmodium tortuosum

Dichondra carolinensis

Diodia virginiana

Dioscorea bulbifera

Dioscorea oppositifolia

Dipsacus fullonum

Eclipta prostrata

Elaeagnus umbellata

Elephantopus carolinianus

Erechtites hieracifolia

Erigeron annuus

Erigeron philadelphicus

Erigeron strigosus

Euonymus alatus

Euonymus europaeus

Eupatorium hyssopifolium

Euphorbia helioscopia

Foeniculum vulgare

Galium odoratum

Geranium dissectum

Helenium amarum

Hieracium aurantiacum

Hieracium caespitosum

Holosteum umbellatum

Hydrocotyle umbellata

Hypericum punctatum

Jacquemontia tamnifolia

Lactuca Canadensis

Lactuca serriola

Lamium amplexicaule

Lamium purpureum

Lepidium campestre

Ligustrum sinense

Lonicera japonica

Lonicera morrowii

Lonicera tatarica

Mollugo verticillata

Oxydendrum arboreum

Perilla frutescens

Phyllanthus urinaria

Phytolacca americana

Plantago aristata

Plantago lanceolata

Polygonum caespitosum

Polygonum convolvulus

Polygonum cuspidatum

Polygonum hydropiperoides

Polygonum lapathifolium

Polygonum persicaria

Portulaca oleracea

Portulaca pilosa

Prunella vulgaris

Quercus virginiana

Ranunculus abortivus

Ranunculus parviflorus

Ranunculus sceleratus

Raphanus raphanistrum

Rumex acetosella

Rumex obtusifolius

Scleranthus annuus

Senecio viscosus

Senecio vulgaris

Sherardia arvensis

Sicyos angulatus

Silene latifolia ssp. alba

Solanum carolinense

Solanum ptycanthum

Solidago altissima

Solidago giganteae

Sonchus oleraceus

Symphoricarpos orbiculatus

Symphyotrichum pilosum var. pilosum

Thlaspi alliaceum

Thlaspi arvense

Verbena urticifolia

Verbesina alternifolia

Vernonia gigantea

Veronica agrestis

Veronica americana

Veronica arvensis

Veronica filiformis

Veronica hederifolia

Veronica officinalis

Veronica peregrina

Veronica persica

Veronica serpyllifolia

Xanthium strumarium