Weeds—A Pictorial of Some
Common Landscape Problems
The word weed in the basic sense is one with virtually no class value, because a weed is a weed only if it's growing where it's not wanted or needed. In some cases, plants that we call weeds are used as food or as integral parts of the garden.Weeds might be undesired for several reasons. Some are unattractive. Others force out more desirable plants, or limit the amount of light that desirable plants need to thrive. If you have poor soil, having weeds use nutrients earmarked for other plants can put them on the gardening hit list. Some others may pass on a disease. A few weeds are annoyances simply because they possess thorns or prickles, while others possess compounds that irritate the skin or are dangerous when consumed. Still others have seed systems that come off and affix to hair or clothing, or pets. Below is some information, pictures and remedies for some popular weeds widely claimed to be nuisances. Some of them look almost too pretty to be weeds, but the general consensus is that they're weeds. Broadleaf Weeds  |  |  | 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
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 |  |  | 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
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 |  |  | 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
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 |  |  | creeping beggarweed aka: zarzabacoa comun
| curly dock aka: Curley dock, narrowleaf dock, sour dock, yellow dock
| slender cudweed
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 |  |  | dandelion aka: common dandelion, blowball, dandelion, faceclock
| dichondra aka: Carolina ponysfoot
| English daisy aka: lawndaisy, European daisy
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 |  |  | 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
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 |  |  | Florida pusley aka: rough Mexican clover
| ground ivy aka: creeping charlie, gill-over-the-ground, groundivy, haymaids
| henbit aka: henbit deadnettle, common henbit, giraffehead
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Grassy Weeds |  |  | annual bluegrass aka: walkgrass
| barnyardgrass aka: cockspur, Japanese millet, large barnyard grass, watergrass
| bermudagrass aka: common bermudagrass, devilgrass
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 |  |  | 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
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Woody Plants |  |  | giant ragweed aka: blood ragweed, horseweed, perennial ragweed, tall ragweed
| atlantic poison oak
| eastern poison ivy aka: poison ivy, poisonivy
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Some of the information above was provided by The University of Georgia Center for Invasive Species and Ecosystem Health. From Weeds to Organic Fertilizers home page
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