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Aphanes microcarpa (belly plant). In the rose family –Rosaceae Palmately lobed leaves Leaves are alternately placed along the stem. Cardamine hirsuta. Brassicaceae Rosette forming annual Pinnately compound leaves Sausage-like fruit Little white flowers. Capsella bursa-pastoris.
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Aphanes microcarpa (belly plant) • In the rose family –Rosaceae • Palmately lobed leaves • Leaves are alternately placed along the stem
Cardamine hirsuta • Brassicaceae • Rosette forming annual • Pinnately compound leaves • Sausage-like fruit • Little white flowers
Capsella bursa-pastoris • Has heart-shaped fruit • Finely divided leaves
Cerastium glomeratum • mouse ear shaped leaves (opposite) • Hairy stems and leaves compared to Stellaria media • Distance between internodes is shorter than Stellaria media
Dichondra carolinensis • Viny/Creeping perennial weed • Has round/kidney shaped leaves
Facelis retusa • Herbaceous • Bicolor leaves –green top and whitish bottom • Leaf has spine at tip • Introduced weed
Galium spp. • Square stems • Whorled leaves, elongate • Covered with small hairs, so it sticks on surfaces. • White flower
Geranium carolinianum • Native geranium • Palmately dissected leaf • Small, purplish flower • Fruits look like a crane’s bill or stork’s bill
Houstonia sp • Tiny flowering plant • 4-petaled blue flowers
Lamium amplexicaule • Square stems • Clasping bracts (amplexus) under purple flowers
Lamium purpureum • Square stems • Reddish leaves on the top of plant • Purple flowers tucked with the leaves (pagoda like appearance)
Rumex sp. • Large elongate leaf • Curly leaf margin • Strong loopy venation present underneath the leaf
Sherardia arvensis • Square stems • Whorled leaves, broader leaf than Galium • Lavender flower
Soliva sessilis • Carrot-like leaf • Deeply divided leaf • Leaves in rosette when plant young • Makes inflorescence with spiny tips when mature
Stellaria media • Opposite leaves • Less hairy compared to Cerastium glomeratum
Taraxacum sp. • Rosette forming perennials • Mitotic seed production (agamospermy) • Leaf tip shaped like an arrowhead • Yellow inflorescence • Bleeds milky juice
Trifolium incarnatum • 3 leaflets • Common roadside flower (red) • Relatively large leaves • Has nitrogen fixing bacteria -Rhizobium
Trifolium dubium • Yellow flowers
Trifolium repens • Has white flowers
Veronica arvensis • Heart-shaped fruit • Fruit is in axil of the leaf • Blue flower
Veronica hederifolia • Palmately lobed leaf • Globose fruit hangs off the plant • Long hair compared to V. arvensis
Alternate, pinnately compound leaves Legume Tendrils at the tip of the leaf Extrafloral nectaries on stipules (the brown spots) Vicia spp.
Viola spp. • Large stipules • Purplish pansy-like flower