Weed Identification and Control Training Course

Identified weeds include:

b. Types of Weeds:

(1) Broadleaf Weeds

(a) Annuals

(1) Summer Annuals (Warm Season Annuals):
(a) Beggarticks
(b) Chickweed
(c) Wooly Croton
(d) Lambsquarters
(e) Redroot Pigweed
(f) Rough Pigweed
(g) Prostrate Pigweed
(h) Tumbling Pigweed
(i) Prickly Lettuce
(j) Annual Morningglory
(k) Bedstraw
(l) Prostrate Spurge
(m) Spotted Spurge
(n) Puncturevine
(o) Purslane
(p) Common Ragweed
(q) Common Sunflower
(r) Annual Sowthistle Prickly Lettuce

(2) Winter Annuals: (Cool Season Annuals): Dicamba works well on most of these.
(a) Bur Buttercup
(b) Pennycress
(c) Henbit
(d) Kochia
(e) Tansy Mustard
(f) Purple Mustard
(g) Fieldcress
(h) Flixweed
(i) Jim Hill Mustard
(j) Common Mustard
(k) Wild Mustard
(l) Larkspurs
(m) Wooly Locoweed
(n) Hoary Pea (Goatsrue)
(o) Mayweed
(p) Field Madder
(q) Russian Thistle
(r) Shepherd's Purse Kochia
(s) Tumble Mustard
(t) Yellow Rocket (Mustard)

(b) Biennials:
(1) Bur Clover
(2) Burdock
(3) Cocklebur
(4) Chamomile
(5) Wild Carrot
(6) Spotted Knapweed
(7) Mullein
(8) Prickly Poppy
(9) Bull Thistle
(10) Musk Thistle
(11) Common Sow Thistle
(12) Yellow Star Thistle

(c) Perennials

(1) Simple Perennials:
(a) Jerusalem Artichoke
(b) Catnip
(c) Chickory
(d) Yellow Clover
(e) Dandelion
(f) Broadleaf Dock
(g) Curly Dock
(h) Narrowleaf Goldenrod
(i) Groundcherry
(j) Gumweed
(k) Broadleaf plantain
(l) Mallow (Cheeseweed)
(m) Milkweed
(n) Texas blueweed
(o) Prickly pear

(2) Creeping Perennials:
(a) Field Bindweed
(b) Wild Buckwheat
(c) Canada Thistle
(d) Russian Knapweed
(e) Mouseear Chickweed Gumweed
(f) Virginia Creeper

(2) Grasses

(a) Annuals
(1) Summer Annuals:
(a) Crabgrass
(b) Foxtails
(c) Barnyardgrass
(d) Goosegrass
(e) Sandbur
(f) Witchgrass
(g) Wild oats

(2) Winter Annuals:
(a) Annual Bluegrass
(b) Foxtail Barley
(c) Fall Panicum
(d) Rescuegrass
(e) Downy Brome
(f) Wild Rye

(b) Perennial Grasses

(1) Simple Perennials:

(a) Buffalograss
(b) Rice Cutgrass
(c) Orchard Grass
(d) Gramma Grass
(e) Common Rush
(f) Perennial Ryegrass
(g) Reed Canarygrass

(2) Creeping Perennials:
(a) Bentgrass
(b) Bermuda Grass Rescuegrass
(c) Dallisgrass
(d) Johnsongrass
(e) Bluegrass
(f) Yellow Nutsedge
(g) Purple Nutsedge
(h) Quackgrass

Additional classifications may place weeds that occur in any of the above categories special categories. Weeds in special categories may require special practices to control them. Special categories have particular distinguishing features. Such distinguishing features may include special toxins dangerous to humans or livestock, woody stems, or aquatic habitats.

(1) Toxic Plants:
(a) African rue
(b) Woody Aster
(c) Foxglove
(d) Castor plant
(e) Poison Hemlock
(f) Hemp Dogbane
(g) Locoweed (Stemless, Wooly, etc.)
(h) Bitterweed
(i) Jimson Weed
(j) Silverleaf Nightshade
(k) Black Nightshade
(l) Groundcherry
(m) Perennial Broomweed
(n) Goldenrod
(o) Buffalo Bur

Toxic Plants Injurious to Humans
(1) Poison Ivy
(2) Poison Sumak
(3) Poison Oak
(4) Spurge (Bull) Nettle
(5) Stinging Nettle
(6) Slender Nettle

(2) Woody plants and brush:
(a) Elm Species
(b) Creosote
(c) Greasewood
(d) Coniferous trees & shrubs: Juniper, Cedars, Pine, Fir, and Spruce
(e) Maple Species
(f) Mesquite
(g) Oak Species
(h) Rose Species
(i) The Willow & Cottonwood Family Stinging Nettle

(3) Aquatic Plants See TLC?s Aquatic Environment?s Course

(a) Algae:
(1) Single celled Algae
(2) Filamentous Algae
(3) Chara

Submerged Seed Plants
(1) Water Millfoil
(2) Hornwort
(3) Coontail
(4) Water Weed
(5) Pond Weed

Floating Weeds
(1) Water lilies (yellow & white)
(2) Water Hyacinth
(3) Duckweeds

Emergent Weeds
(1) Arrowhead
(2) Pipewort
(3) Cattails Spurge (Bull) Nettle
(4) Bulrushes