Wild Buckwheat – Flowers
Wild Buckwheat Polygonum convolvulus L. An annual with twining or trailing stems to 2.0 m long. Leaves are alternate, smooth and heart- to arrow-head shaped with pointed tips. They have a short, papery sheath at the leaf axils. Flowers are small, drooping, greenish...
Wild Buckwheat – Leaves
Wild Buckwheat Polygonum convolvulus L. An annual with twining or trailing stems to 2.0 m long. Leaves are alternate, smooth and heart- to arrow-head shaped with pointed tips. They have a short, papery sheath at the leaf axils. Flowers are small, drooping, greenish...
Wild Buckwheat – Mature Plant
Wild Buckwheat Polygonum convolvulus L. An annual with twining or trailing stems to 2.0 m long. Leaves are alternate, smooth and heart- to arrow-head shaped with pointed tips. They have a short, papery sheath at the leaf axils. Flowers are small, drooping, greenish...
Sticky Groundsel – Pappus
Sticky Groundsel Senecio viscosus L. An erect, branched annual with alternate, oblong, deeply-lobed leaves. The entire plant is covered with short, sticky hairs - hence its name. The flower is a compound, vase-shaped head with small, yellow disc and ray florets that...
Sticky Groundsel – Bracts
Sticky Groundsel Senecio viscosus L. An erect, branched annual with alternate, oblong, deeply-lobed leaves. The entire plant is covered with short, sticky hairs - hence its name. The flower is a compound, vase-shaped head with small, yellow disc and ray florets that...
Sticky Groundsel – Flower Cluster
Sticky Groundsel Senecio viscosus L. An erect, branched annual with alternate, oblong, deeply-lobed leaves. The entire plant is covered with short, sticky hairs - hence its name. The flower is a compound, vase-shaped head with small, yellow disc and ray florets that...
Sticky Groundsel – Young Plant
Sticky Groundsel Senecio viscosus L. An erect, branched annual with alternate, oblong, deeply-lobed leaves. The entire plant is covered with short, sticky hairs - hence its name. The flower is a compound, vase-shaped head with small, yellow disc and ray florets that...
Pale Smartweed – Flowering Spike
Pale Smartweed P. lapathifolium L. Pale Smartweed is similar to lady's-thumb but it is larger, it lacks prominent hairs on the leaf sheath and the flowers are green to white-pink . The leaves have a similar dark spot but the undersides of the lower leaves are hairy...
Lady's Thumb – Flowering Spike
Lady's Thumb Polygonum persicaria L. Lady's-thumb is a slender, semi-erect annual with smooth, usually reddish stems up to 80 cm long. Leaves are smooth, lance-shaped with a dark 'thumb print' on the upper surface. Stem nodes are swollen and leaf axils are surrounded...
Lady's Thumb – Nodes
Lady's Thumb Polygonum persicaria L. Lady's-thumb is a slender, semi-erect annual with smooth, usually reddish stems up to 80 cm long. Leaves are smooth, lance-shaped with a dark 'thumb print' on the upper surface. Stem nodes are swollen and leaf axils are surrounded...
Lady's Thumb – Leaf
Lady's Thumb Polygonum persicaria L. Lady's-thumb is a slender, semi-erect annual with smooth, usually reddish stems up to 80 cm long. Leaves are smooth, lance-shaped with a dark 'thumb print' on the upper surface. Stem nodes are swollen and leaf axils are surrounded...
Lady's Thumb – Mature Plant
Lady's Thumb Polygonum persicaria L. Lady's-thumb is a slender, semi-erect annual with smooth, usually reddish stems up to 80 cm long. Leaves are smooth, lance-shaped with a dark 'thumb print' on the upper surface. Stem nodes are swollen and leaf axils are surrounded...
Redroot Pigweed – Immature Flowering Head
Redroot Pigweed Amarathus retrojlexus L. A coarse, erect, branching annual 1.0 to 2.0 m tall with a red taproot and often reddish stem covered with hair. Leaves are alternate, dull green, diamond-shaped and sparsely hairy. Small, inconspicuous flowers are clustered in...
Redroot Pigweed – Tap Root
Redroot Pigweed Amarathus retrojlexus L. A coarse, erect, branching annual 1.0 to 2.0 m tall with a red taproot and often reddish stem covered with hair. Leaves are alternate, dull green, diamond-shaped and sparsely hairy. Small, inconspicuous flowers are clustered in...
Redroot Pigweed – Mature Spike
Redroot Pigweed Amarathus retrojlexus L. A coarse, erect, branching annual 1.0 to 2.0 m tall with a red taproot and often reddish stem covered with hair. Leaves are alternate, dull green, diamond-shaped and sparsely hairy. Small, inconspicuous flowers are clustered in...














