Identifying weeds in nurseries and landscapes
The information presented here about weed identification in nurseries and landscapes was developed from the publication An IPM Pocket Guide for Weed Identification in Nurseries and Landscapes by Steven A. Gower and Robert J. Richardson.
This plastic-coated scouting guide with its 3.5" X 5.0" pages fits in your pocket for easy use in the field. It contains many color pictures and descriptions. Purchase the guide from MSU Extension Bookstore (publication E2982).
For reference:
Common weeds found in nurseries and landscapes
Identify weeds by:
Common name
- Annual bluegrass
- Annual sowthistle
- Asiatic (common) dayflower
- Barnyardgrass
- Birdseye pearlwort
- Birdsfoot trefoil
- Black medic
- Blackseed plantain
- Brambles
- British elecampane
- Broadleaf dock
- Broadleaf plantain
- Buckhorn plantain
- Bull thistle
- Canada goldenrod
- Canada thistle
- Carpetweed
- Common blue violet
- Common chickweed
- Common cottonwood
- Common eveningprimrose
- Common groundsel
- Common lambsquarters
- Common mallow
- Common purslane
- Corn speedwell
- Creeping woodsorrel
- Curly dock
- Cutleaf eveningprimrose
- Dandelion
- Easternblack nightshade
- English ivy
- Entireleaf morningglory
- Field bindweed
- Field horsetail
- Field pennycress
- Field violet
- Giant foxtail
- Green foxtail
- Ground ivy
- Hairy bittercress
- Hairy galinsoga
- Healall
- Hedge bindweed
- Henbit
- Horsenettle
- Horseweed
- Ivyleaf morningglory
- Knawel
- Ladysthumb
- Large crabgrass
- Liverworts
- Marsh yellowcress
- Mile-a-minute
- Mosses
- Mouseear chickweed
- Mugwort
- Northern willowherb
- Pale smartweed
- Pennsylvania smartweed
- Perennial sowthistle
- Pineapple weed
- Pitted morningglory
- Poison ivy
- Powell amaranth
- Prostrate knotweed
- Prostrate pigweed
- Prostrate spurge
- Prickly lettuce
- Purple deadnettle
- Purslane speedwell
- Quackgrass
- Red Clover
- Redroot pigweed
- Redstem filaree
- Scouringrush
- Shepherd’s purse
- Slender speedwell
- Smallflowered bittercress
- Smooth crabgrass
- Smooth pigweed
- Spiny sowthistle
- Spotted spurge
- Stinging nettle
- Swamp smartweed
- Tall morningglory
- Tartary buckwheat
- Tumble pigweed
- Velvetleaf
- Venice mallow
- Vetches
- Virginia creeper
- White clover
- Wild buckwheat
- Wild mustard
- Yellow fieldcress
- Yellow foxtail
- Yellow nutsedge
- Yellow rocket
- Yellow woodsorrel
Scientific name
- A. hybridus
- A. powellii
- Abutilon theophrasti
- Amaranthus albus
- Amaranthus blitoides
- Amaranthus retroflexus
- Artemisia vulgaris
- Barbarea vulgaris
- C. arvense
- Calystegia sepium
- Capsella bursa-pastoris
- Cardamine hirsuta
- Cardamine parviflora
- Cerastium fontanum
- Chamaesyce humistrata
- Chamaesyce maculata
- Chenopodium album
- Cirsium vulgare
- Commelina communis
- Convolvulus arvensis
- Conyza canadensis
- Cyperus esculentus
- Digitaria ischaemum
- Digitaria sanguinalis
- E. hyemale
- Echinochloa crus-galli
- Elymus repens
- Epilobium ciliatum
- Erodium cicutarium
- Equisetum arvense
- Fagopyrum tataricum
- Galinsoga quadriradiata
- Glechoma hederacea
- Hedera helix
- Hibiscus trionum
- I. hederacea
- I. lacunosa
- I. purpurea
- Inula britannica
- Ipomoea hederacea
- Lactuca serriola
- Lamium amplexicaule
- Lamium purpureum
- Lotus corniculatus
- Malva neglecta
- Matricaria discoidea
- Medicago lupulina
- Mollugo verticillata
- O. laciniata
- Oenothera biennis
- Oxalis corniculata
- Oxalis stricta
- P. amphibium
- P. lapathifolium
- P. perfoliatum
- P. persicaria
- P. rugelii
- Parthenocissus quinquefolia
- Plantago lanceolata
- Plantago major
- Poa annua
- Polygonum aviculare
- Polygonum convolvulus
- Polygonum pensylvanicum
- Populus deltoides
- Portulaca oleracea
- Prunella vulgaris
- R. obtusifolius
- Rorippa palustris
- Rorippa sylvestris
- Rubus
- Rumex crispus
- S. asper
- S. faberi
- S. glauca
- S. oleraceus
- Sagina procumbens
- Scleranthus annuus
- Senecio vulgaris
- Setaria viridis
- Sinapis arvensis
- Solanum carolinense
- Solanum ptycanthum
- Solidago canadensis
- Sonchus arvensis
- Stellaria media
- T. pratense
- Taraxacum officinale
- Thlaspi arvense
- Toxicodendron radicans
- Trifolium repens
- Urtica dioica
- V. papilionacea
- Veronica arvensis
- Veronica filiformis
- Veronica peregrina
- Vicia
- Viola arvensis