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  • Malva neglecta / cheeseweed

    Malva neglecta / cheeseweed

    • leaves look like grocery store geraniums (Pelargonium)
    • flowers are small, pink-ish and often buried in the foliage
    • fruits are small (ca. 1/2 in) and round
  • Melilotus spp / sweetclover

    Melilotus spp / sweetclover

    • yellow or white, floppy, tubular flowers in long-ish clusters (racemes)
    • 3 small, pointy leaflets with petioles
    • rangy, unkempt branching
    • roadsides, waste places and sometimes in fields, grasslands
  • Mentha canadensis / American cornmint

    Mentha canadensis / American cornmint

    • crushed leaves smell like peppermint
    • clusters of teeny white-blue-pink flowers in the axils of stem leaves
    • square stems, lance-shaped leaves
    • shaded, moist areas
    • may form large clones
  • Nasturtium officinale / watercress

    Nasturtium officinale / watercress

    • emergent aquatic in slow-ish flowing steams
    • four petaled white flowers in clusters
    • thick, shiny leaves
    • often in dense colonies
  • Phalaris arundinacea / reed canarygrass

    Phalaris arundinacea / reed canarygrass

    • large, coarse, erect grass
    • long, flat blades with pointy tips...  from base
    • distinct ligule—membranous and long
    • large but compact inflorescences (panicles)
    • often in dense monocultures, e.g. on river banks
  • Plantago major / broadleaf plantain

    Plantago major / broadleaf plantain

  • Polygonum aviculare / prostrate knotweed

    Polygonum aviculare / prostrate knotweed

    • long, prostrate stems around a central point
    • copious red-edged white flowers
    • small green leaves
    • along roadsides, parking lots and wherever trampling occurs
    • an ugly weed you'll see on most of your walks around town
  • Potentilla recta / sulfur cinquefoil

    Potentilla recta / sulfur cinquefoil

    • perennial
    • 8 to 30 stems per plant, each with 1-60 flowers
    • petals are light yellow; centers are darker, sulfur yellow
    • shiny, erect hairs arise at right angles to the stems.
    • leaves are alternate and palmately compound, 5-9 leaflets per leaf
    • invades both disturbed and undisturbed habitats
  • Pteridium aquilinum / common bracken

    Pteridium aquilinum / common bracken

    • a fern with large, triangular fronds, up to 4 ft tall
    • fronds subdivided into triangular leaflets
    • herbaceous perennial
    • deciduous with annual regrowth first appearing as fiddleheads in spring
    • wide range of habitats, including full sun
  • Rhamphospermum arvense / Charlock

    Rhamphospermum arvense / Charlock

    • yellow-flowered brassica; flowers larger than most mustards
    • large-ish leaves with toothed margins
    • erect stems; look for a reddish purple ring at stem junctions
    • disturbed areas, road sides and waste places; prefers high nutrients
    • 1" siliques point out or up, but not down
  • Rumex crispus / curly dock

    Rumex crispus / curly dock

    • rather large, lance-shaped leaves
    • curly leaf margins, like crisped bacon or "crinkly-wavy"
    • tall flowering stalks with many, many small yellow/green-ish flowers
    • fruits are just like the flowers but deep red
    • widespread and very much a weed
  • Sisymbrium altissimum / tumble mustard

    Sisymbrium altissimum / tumble mustard

    • inflorescence a raceme with yellow, teeny flowers
    • long, thin seed pods (siliques)
    • blooms throughout the spring and summer
    • shoots look like a bunch of sticks glued together
    • dries and breaks off, then tumbles

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