Weed Identification Photos

Featured seasonal weeds: Spring l Summer l Fall

Grassy Weeds
Broadleaf Weeds
Woody-Vining Weeds
Lawn Weeds
Invasive Plant Photos and Information

Important Tips for Weed Control

Identify the weed! And learn about its life cycle. This will help in control.
Minimize soil disturbance. Digging and cultivating brings weed seeds to the surface and when exposed to light they will germinate.
Do not let weeds flower and go to seed. At minimum cut them back or use a string trimmer.
Pull weeds when the soil is moist. This will make the job easier!
Cover bare soil with mulch or groundcovers. Bare soil is an invitation for weeds to move in.
Glyphosate (Roundup®) Information and Alternatives for Weed Management

Key: * invasive

Grassy weeds and sedges	Annual bluegrass	Bamboo	Bermudagrass
	Crabgrass	Dallisgrass	Foxtail
	Goosegrass	Japanese stiltgrass *	Kyllinga
	Nimblewill (right)	Orchardgrass	Quackgrass
	Wavyleaf basketgrass *	Yellow nutsedge

Broadleaf or Herb- aceous	American burnweed	Asiatic dayflower	Black medic
	Buttercup	Canada thistle *	Carpetweed
	Chicory	Clover	Common chickweed
	Common cinquefoil	Common cocklebur	Dandelion
	Deadnettle	Dock	Fleabane
	Galinsoga	Garlic mustard *	Giant hogweed *
	Ground ivy (Creeping Charlie)	Groundsel	Hairy bittercress
	Henbit	Horsenettle	Horseweed
	Indian mock strawberry	Jimsonweed	Knawel
	Knotweed	Lambsquarter	Lespedeza
	Lesser celandine *	Mallow	Mugwort
	Mulberry Weed	Pigweed	Plantain
	Pokeweed	Prostrate Spurge	Purslane
	Ragweed	Red sorrel (Sheep sorrel)	Shepherd's Purse
	Smartweed (Pennsylvania)	Speedwell	Star of Bethlehem
	Velvetleaf	Wild garlic	Wild violet
	Wood sorrel (Oxalis)	Yarrow

Woody and Vining Weeds	Autumn olive *	Bindweed	Border privet *
	Bradford pear *	Burning bush *	Butterfly bush *
	Chinese and Japanese Wisteria *	Dodder	English ivy *
	Exotic bush honeysuckle *	Honeysuckle *	Japanese barberry *
	Japanese knotweed*	Kudzu*	Mile a Minute*
	Multiflora rose *	Norway maple *	Oriental bittersweet *
	Paulownia *	Poison ivy	Porcelainberry *
	Smilax (Greenbrier)	Tree of Heaven *	Trumpet creeper
	Virginia creeper	Wineberry *	Winter creeper euonymus *

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