Wild Aster:
A branching perennial with white and yellow or purple flowers that may reach as much as 5 1/2 feet in height
Bedstraw:
A perennial with square stems and whorls of 6 to 8 leaves
Birdsfoot Trefoil:
The stems are slender, branch well, and are moderately leafy. The bloom is made up of a cluster of bright yellow flowers arranged in a whorl at the end of the flowering stems.
Black Medic:
A low-trailing summer annual, with yellow flowers
Blackseed Plantain:
Perennial from a basal rosette with broad oval leaves
Blueweed:
Plants are covered with long hairs and produce many bright blue flowers
Brambles:
Group of perennial herbs, shrubs or trailing vines, that are noted for their prickly stems and berry-like, usually edible fruits.
Broad-leaved Plantain:
The plant has large, oval, ribbed leaves and small, inconspicuous flowers appearing in clusters on solitary, erect flower stems.
Buckhorn Plantain:
Long, narrow leaves that have prominent parallel veins and inconspicuous flowers in dense clusters located at the end of erect, leafless flowering stems
Bull Thistle:
Spiny-winged stems and leaves with rough hairs on the upper surface and softer whitish hairs below.
Burdock:
Leaves are distinctive due to their large size, heart-shaped base, wooly undersurface, and hollow leaf stalks.
Buttercup:
Low growing perennial broadleaf plant with shamrocklike leaves
Canada Thistle:
Creeping perennial roots, which extend downward as well as horizontally, and its relatively smooth spineless stems
Carolina Geranium:
Divided leaves and distinctive 'crane's bill' fruit and the whitish-pink to purple flower color.
Common Chickweed:
Oppositely arranged small oval or elliptic leaves and stems with rows of hairs
Chicory:
Produces flowering stems with attractive blue, purple or white flowers.
Cocklebur:
Stems are thick, and may branch many times, and have purple or black spots
Evening Primrose:
Erect plants with elliptic leaves that have untoothed margins, and showy yellow flowers.
Knotweed:
Inconspicuous flower heads are found at the top of short stalks that grow from the bases of leaves. They consist of a cluster of two to eight tiny, green flowers with white or pink edges.
Cudweed:
Stems and foliage with distinct white-woolly foliage
Daisy Fleabane:
Solid stem, white flowers with a yellow center, oval base leaves, linear upper leaves.
Dandelion:
Basal leaves with jagged edges, hollow stems that are leafless and terminate in a single yellow flower, and fluffy white seed heads.
Fall Dandelion (Fall Hawkbit):
Many yellow rays on branched, stems that are not hollow
Dock (Curled):
Leaves of curly dock are long and relatively narrow, with curly or wavy margins resembling crisped bacon. Curly dock leaves sometimes have a bluish green color.
English Daisy:
White or pinkish “petals” are actually small ray flowers and their yellow centers consist of tiny disc flowers
Bindweed (Field):
Leaves are attached to flattened stalks that are grooved on the upper surface. They trail along the ground or climb on upright plants such as shrubs.
Fleabane:
Upper branches contain many flowering stalks and there is one flower head per stalk
Florida Pusley:
The flower is star shaped with six parts connected to form a tube.
False Dandelion:
The rosette growth habit, irregularly lobed leaves, and bright yellow flowers are characteristics of this plant.
Smartweed (green):
Green flowers and glandular dots on the undersurface of upper leaves
Ground ivy:
Perennial with creeping stems that root at the nodes and foliage that emits a mint-like odor when mowed
Devil's Paint Brush (Hawkweed):
2-foot-tall leafless stems with terminal groups of orange flowers.
Heal-all:
Grows as a sprawling plant with upright flower clusters, but it can have an erect habit when growing in undisturbed areas
Henbit:
The flowers of the henbit weed are pinkish or pinkish-purple, tubular in shape and sit on top of the whorls of the top leaves
Honeysuckle:
Generally are comprised of older lower branches from which arching, upward, younger branches arise
Jimsonweed:
Plants with large conspicuous flowers and fruit, and a distinctive odor
Kochia:
Highly branched nature and hairs that occur along the leaf margins
Kudzu:
Rapid growth, climbing or trailing nature, and invasive habit
Lambsquarters:
Leaf surfaces, especially on new growth, are covered with a fine white powdery coating
Mallow:
Leaves are hairy, somewhat palm shaped,
Morningglory:
Mature plants have long stems that climb and twine. Leaves are large, heart shaped and/or three lobed, and are alternate to one another along the stem
Mouse-ear chickweed:
A spreading, mat-forming perennial with prominently hairy prostrate stems and leaves
Mustards:
Mature mustards have dense clusters of four-petaled, yellow flowers at the tips of branches.
Narrow-leaved Plantain:
Long, narrow leaves with prominent, parallel veins, and its slender, leafless stems tipped with short, dense, oval spikes of tiny flowers.
Oxalis (Yellow Woodsorrel):
Trifoliate leaves and yellow flowers that is primarily a weed in greenhouses, container ornamentals, landscapes, turfgrass, and lawns
Ox-eye daisy:
Distinguished by lower leaves that are dark green, hairless, somewhat fleshy, and coarsely toothed and conspicuous daisy-like flowers with white rays and yellow centers
Pennywort:
Leaves are hairless, stems root at joints and leaf stalks have papery structures at base. Leaves are round or kidney shaped, and are alternate to one another along the stem.
Peppergrass:
The stems are light green to reddish green
Pigweed (Prostrate):
Leaves of prostrate pigweed have light colored edges and a bristle at the tip.
Pineapple Weed:
Low-growing plants with finely divided foliage that gives off a pineapple smell when crushed
Poison Ivy:
Leaves occur on petioles and are divided into 3 leaflets which are generally oval in outline. Leaflets may be either toothed, untoothed, or lobed.
Poorjoe (Common Buttonweed):
Erect or spreading annual with opposite, linear leaves and small white flowers
Povertyweed:
Foliage has an unpleasant aromatic odor and is moderately covered with short stiff hairs
Purslane:
Prostrate growth habit in combination with the fleshy, succulent nature of this weed helps to distinguish it from most other plants.
Speedwell (Purslane leaved):
Flowers bloom in a terminal inflorescence with bracts similar to the leaves and each floret has very small white corolla, fruit form as capsules.
Ragweed:
Egg-shaped in outline and once or twice compound, leaves hairy on upper surface and margin, densely appressed on lower surface
Russian thistle:
Mature plants are large and bushy with rigid, purple-streaked or green stems that typically curve upward giving the plant an overall round shape
Sheep sorrel:
Slim reddish stems and narrow arrow-shaped leaves that have a pungent lemon scent distinguish this weed from others.
Shepherd's purse:
White four-parted flowers; seeds develop in a triangular, flattened pod (purse), notched at the top
Pigweed:
Very narrow, often lax, terminal spike with numerous short lateral branches
Soliva:
Small, diffuse, prostrate, stemless, annual herb; leaves radical, branches stolon like
Sow thistle:
An annual with bluish-green leaves and stems that secretes a milky sap when cut
Spotted spurge:
Small plants that emit a milky sap when broken and form dense mats that radiate out from a central point
Grass leaved stitchwort:
Found growing in small patches, as the rootstocks send up flowering stalks at intervals of a few inches
Stonecrop (mossy):
It is distinguished by its low stature, short, thick, very succulent leaves and small, yellow flowers.
Sumac:
Woody perennial grows in a colony as a shrub or it may grow alone as a small tree.
Sandwort (thyme-leaved):
Covered with very short inward-curved or nearly flat-lying hair this gives a somewhat rough texture and a bluish-green color
Veronica (thyme-leaved):
The tiny dark green leaves disguise it, looking like creeping thyme; but when it blooms hundreds of small azure blue flowers
Vervain:
5 united petals in the form of a slender tube with a flared top. Flowers are located in dense spikes at the end of square stems.
Vetch:
The leaves that are divided into 8 to 16 leaflets, the distinct stipule that occurs at the base of the leaf petiole, and the climbing or trailing growth habit
Violet:
The heart-shaped leaves with rounded teeth along the margins, purple flowers, and rhizomes
Clover (White):
Trifoliate leaves and white flowers
Wild Blackberry:
Tall, thorny, arching cane with palmate-compound leaves, flowers white to pinkish, 5-petaled, with many bushy stamens, in loose clusters
Wild Carrot:
Closely resembles a typical garden carrot during the first year of growth. During the second year of growth, the plants produce stalks with white, flat-topped flowers.
Wild Garlic:
The leaves of wild garlic are hollow and round, and bulblets that emit a strong garlic or onion smell when crushed
Wild Geranium:
Native perennial plant is 1-2½' tall, consisting of a loose cluster of basal leaves and flowering stems that develop directly from the creeping rootstock
Wild Lettuce:
The stem and leaves are purple flushed, the leaves are less divided, but there is more spreading.
Wild Onion:
Generally have tall, fleshy, blade-like leaves which connect with a small, shallowly-rooted bulb
Wild Radish:
Highly lobed leaves in a basal rosette and on the erect flowering stem
Wild Raspberry:
Biennial, prickly, often with gland-tipped hairs; bark shredding, yellow to cinnamon brown; similar to cultivated raspberry
Yarrow:
A perennial from rhizomes with finely dissected leaves and white, flat-topped flowers
Yellow Hawkweed:
Produces rosettes consisting of long leaves and bunches of yellow flowers at the tips of leafless stems.