Weed - Plants Often Considered To Be Weeds

Plants Often Considered To Be Weeds

A short list of some plants that often are considered to be weeds follows:

  • Bermuda grass - perennial, spreading by runners, rhizomes and seeds.
  • Bindweed
  • Broadleaf plantain – perennial, spreads by seeds that persist in the soil for many years
  • Burdock – biennial
  • Common lambsquarters - annual
  • Creeping Charlie – perennial, fast-spreading plants with long creeping stems
  • Dandelion – perennial, wind-spread, fast-growing, and drought-tolerant
  • Goldenrod – perennial
  • Japanese Knotweed
  • Kudzu – perennial
  • Leafy spurge – perennial, with underground stems
  • Milk thistle – annual or biennial
  • Poison ivy – perennial
  • Ragweed – annual
  • Sorrel – annual
  • St John's wort - perennial
  • Sumac – woody perennial
  • Tree of heaven - woody perennial
  • Wild carrot – biennial
  • Wood sorrel – perennial
  • Yellow nutsedge - perennial

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