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'Chicory' (Cichorium intybus)
Aka coffeeweed, blue sailors, succory.
A native of Europe.
Chicory is a summer perennial that develops from a basal rosette. Biennial. Blooms: May----October
Flowers are blue, remaining on the plant for only a single day. The flowers
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Dandelion
(Taraxacum officinale).
AKA (Blowball,
lionstooth, cankerwort, doon-head-clock) One of the most common broadleaf weed in lawns
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Common Ragweed
Ambrosia artemisiifolia .
Very invasive.
Annual
Warm-season Broadleaf Weed
Look a like -
Mugwort (Ariemisia vnlgaris) AKA Chrysanthemum weed,
wormwood. |
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Giant Ragweed
Ambrosia trifida
Annual Warm-season Broadleaf Weed
Giant ragweed is an erect summer annual that may grow 16 feet
high. The leaves usually have three lobes (sometimes five). |
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Pokeweed
(Phytolacca americana) (pokeweed family) AKA Pokeberry,
Virginia poke, inkberry, pokeroot, inkberry, poke.
Its roots and berries
are poisonous. Also it is a native American wildflower. |
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Pokeweed berries |
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Velvetleaf (Autilon theophrasti)
AKA Butterprint, Indian mallow,
pieprint, cottonweed, American jute, Indian hemp.
This plant has broad, velvety, heart-shaped
leaves. Yellow five-petaled flowers form singly in leaf axils (angle formed by leaf and
stem.) Capable of growing to a height of 6 ft.
Broadleaf weed |
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Ground ivy (Glechoma bederacea.) AKA
Gill-over-the-ground, creeping-charlie, field balm. A member of the mint family. The
leaves are opposite, rounded, slightly hairy, and heavily-veined with scalloped edges.
A
perennial creeper in Zone 7a. Very invasive.
Broadleaf weed |
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Ground ivy
In flower |
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Climbing night Shade
(Solanum
dulcamara) Caution the entire plant is
poisonous -- Do not let kids eat or play with it.
Broadleaf weed |
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Nightshade Eastern
Solanum Broadleaf weed |
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Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
aka mifoil, fernweed, bloodwort,
thousand-leaf. There are close to 100 species of Achillea, but less than a dozen are
cultivated as cut flowers. |
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Lambsquarter
Young
(Chenopodium
album) - AKA Fat hen, white pig weed, white goosefoot. It's a host plant for
beet leaf-hoppers, which transmit curlytop virus.
Broadleaf weed |
