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Weeds

dandelion seeds, Rebekah D. Wallace, Bugwood.org

The word weed in the basic sense is one with virtually no class value, because a weed isn't a weed if it is growing somewhere it is supposed to be or is desired. Certainly, several weeds are found in landscapes or some other cultivated-plant surroundings.

Weeds might be undesired for several reasons: some may be unattractive, or forced out or limit lighting to much more appealing plants or make use of restricted nutritional requirements from your soil. They could have and pass on plant bad bacteria which contaminate and lower the caliber of crop or gardening plants. A few weeds certainly are a annoyance simply because they possess thorns or prickles, several possess compounds that cause pores and skin irritability or are dangerous when consumed, or have got parts that come off and affix to hair or clothing.

What I will be presenting is some information, pictures and remedies for some popular weeds we all claim to be a nuisance. Some of the weeds look almost too pretty to be a weed, now having said that those plants are generally classified as weeds.

Images of many common weeds

broadleaf weeds

field bindweed, Phil Westra, Colorado State University, Bugwood.org black medic, Forest & Kim Starr, U.S. Geological Survey, Bugwood.org broadleaf plantain, James H. Miller, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org
field bindweed aka: creeping jenny, European bindweed, morningglory, perennial morningglory, smallflowered morning glory
black medic aka: black medick, black medic clover, black medick, hop clover, hop medic, nonesuch, yellow trefoil
broadleaf plantain aka: common plantain, broadleaf plantain, buckhorn plantain, great plantain, rippleseed plantain

buckhorn plantain, John D. Byrd, Mississippi State University, Bugwood.org bur clover, Forest & Kim Starr, U.S. Geological Survey, Bugwood.org Canada thistle,Cirsium arvense (L.) Scop., L.L. Berry,Bugwood.org
buckhorn plantain aka: narrowleaf plantain, buckhorn plantain, English plantain, lanceleaf Indianwheat, lanceleaf plantain, ribgrass, ribwort
bur clover aka: burclover, bur clover, California burclover, toothed medick
Canada thistle aka: Californian thistle, creeping thistle, field thistle

carpetweed, Mollugo verticillata L., Rebekah D. Wallace, Bugwood.org common burdock, Arctium minus Bernh., John D. Byrd, Mississippi State University, Bugwood.org common chickweed Stellaria pallida (Dumort.) Crépin Rebekah D. Wallace, Bugwood.org
carpetweed aka: green carpetweed
common burdock aka: lesser burrdock, bardane, beggar's button, burdock, common burdock, small burdock, smaller burdock, wild burdock, wild rhubarb
common chickweed aka: chickweed, nodding chickweed, stitchwort, starwort

creeping beggarweed Desmodium incanum DC. Forest & Kim Starr, U.S. Geological Survey, Bugwood.org curly dock, Rumex crispus L.,  Steve Dewey, Utah State University, Bugwood.org slender cudweed, Gnaphalium exilifolium A. Nels.,  Dave Powell, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org,
creeping beggarweed aka: zarzabacoa comun
curly dock aka: Curley dock, narrowleaf dock, sour dock, yellow dock
slender cudweed

dandelion, Taraxacum officinale,  Dave Powell, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org dichondra, Dichondra carolinensis Michx., Rebekah D. Wallace, Bugwood.org English daisy, Bellis perennis L., UAF Cooperative Extension Archive, University of Alaska - Fairbanks, Bugwood.org
dandelion aka: common dandelion, blowball, dandelion, faceclock
dichondra aka: Carolina ponysfoot
English daisy aka: lawndaisy, European daisy

evening primrose,  Oenothera biennis L., Forest & Kim Starr, U.S. Geological Survey, Bugwood.org false dandelion,  James H. Miller, USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org redstem filaree  Forest & Kim Starr, U.S. Geological Survey, Bugwood.org
evening primrose aka: common eveningprimrose, evening primrose (common), hoary eveningprimrose, king's-cureall
false dandelion aka: Carolina desert-chicory, Carolina desert chicory, Carolina false dandelion, Carolina false-dandelion
redstem filaree aka: redstem stork's bill, alfilaree, alfilaria, California filaree, cutleaf filaree, filaree, red-stem stork's-bill, redstem, redstem filaree, stork's bill, storksbill

Florida pusley,  Richardia scabra L., Rebekah D. Wallace, Bugwood.org ground ivy, Glechoma hederacea L., John D. Byrd, Mississippi State University, Bugwood.org henbit,  Lamium amplexicaule L., John D. Byrd, Mississippi State University, Bugwood.org
Florida pusley aka: rough Mexican clover
ground ivy aka: creeping charlie, gill-over-the-ground, groundivy, haymaids
henbit aka: henbit deadnettle, common henbit, giraffehead

GRASSY WEEDS

annual bluegrass, Poa annua L., Steve Dewey, Utah State University, Bugwood.org, barnyardgrass, Echinochloa crus-galli,  Charles T. Bryson, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org bermudagrass, Cynodon dactylon,  Steve Dewey, Utah State University, Bugwood.org
annual bluegrass aka: walkgrass
barnyardgrass aka: cockspur, Japanese millet, large barnyard grass, watergrass
bermudagrass aka: common bermudagrass, devilgrass

crabgrasssouthern,  Digitaria ciliaris,  Ted Bodner, Southern Weed Science Society, Bugwood.org dallisgrass,  Paspalum dilatatum Poir., Rebekah D. Wallace, Bugwood.org foxtail giant  Setaria faberi Herrm.  John D. Byrd, Mississippi State University, Bugwood.org
southern crabgrass aka: fingergrass, Henry's crabgrass, kukaepua'a, saulangi, smooth crabgrass, Southern crab grass, tropical crabgrass
dallisgrass aka: dallas grass, dallis grass, herbe de miel, herbe sirop, hiku nua, palpalum dilate, water grass
giant foxtail aka: Japanese bristlegrass, Chinese foxtail, Chinese millet, giant bristlegrass, nodding foxtail

WOODY PLANTS

giant ragweed, Ambrosia trifida,  Theodore Webster, USDA Agricultural Research Service, Bugwood.org, atlantic poison oak, Toxicodendron pubescens P. Mill.,  Ted Bodner, Southern Weed Science Society, Bugwood.org eastern poison ivy,  Toxicodendron radicans,  Mark Czarnota, University of Georgia, Bugwood.org
giant ragweed aka: blood ragweed, horseweed, perennial ragweed, tall ragweed
atlantic poison oak
eastern poison ivy aka: poison ivy, poisonivy

kudzu, Pueraria montana var. lobata,  Rebekah D. Wallace, Bugwood.org kudzu


Thanks for the information provided above by The Bug Network.


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