Weed Identification Fact Sheets

The pages linked to this table were originally developed for AGRON 217, a 1 credit course on Weed Identification. Additional weeds will continue to be added.

Equisetaceae (Spore-producing plants)

Field horsetail
Scouring rush

Monocots

Grasses

Barley foxtail
Barnyardgrass
Downy brome
Fall panicum
Giant foxtail
Green foxtail
Goosegrass
Large crabgrass
Nimblewill
Quackgrass
Shattercane
Witchgrass
Woolly cupgrass
Yellow foxtail

Other monocots

Asiatic dayflower 
Smilax
Yellow nutsedge

Dicots (Broadleaves)

Black medic
Broadleaf/blackseed plantain
Buckhorn plantain
Buffalobur
Bull thistle
Bush honeysuckle
Burcucumber
Carpetweed
Canada thistle
Catchweed bedstraw
Common buckthorn
Common burdock
Common cocklebur
Common chickweed
Common dandelion
Common lambsquarters
Common mallow
Common milkweed
Common mullein
Common pokeweed
Common purslane
Common ragweed
Common sunflower
Common/cutleaf teasel
Curly dock
Dodder
Eastern black nightshade
Field bindweed
Field pennycress
Garlic mustard
Giant ragweed
Ground ivy (creeping Charlie)
Hairy galinsoga
Hedge bindweed
Hemp dogbane
Henbit
Honeyvine milkweed
Horsenettle
Horseweed (marestail)
Ivyleaf morningglory
Japanese knotweed
Jimsonweed
Kochia
Leafy spurge
Motherwort
Multiflora rose
Musk thistle
Palmer amaranth
Pennsylvania smartweed
Poison hemlock
Poison ivy
Prickly lettuce
Prickly sida
Prostrate knotweed
Prostrate spurge
Puncturevine
Redroot pigweed
Russian thistle
Serecia lespedeza
Shepherds purse
Spiny sowthistle
Velvetleaf
Venice mallow
Virginia creeper
Waterhemp
Wild buckwheat
Wild carrot
Wild four o'clock
Wild parsnip
Wild violet
Yellow woodsorrel