Go to Midwest Weeds and Wildflowers Home Page

(updated September 8, 2023) 

List of All Weeds by Common Name in Alphabetical Order: (in progress)

• African Rue

• Ailanthus

• Air Potato Vine

• Alkali Poisonvetch

• Alligatorweed

• Amazon Sprangletop

• American Burnweed

• American Germander

• American Lotus

• American Pondweed

• American Starthistle

• Amur Honeysuckle

• Amur Privet

• Annual Bluegrass

• Annual Bursage

• Annual Dropseed

• Annual Marshelder

• Annual Prickly Poppy

• Annual Ryegrass

• Annual Sedge

• Annual Sowthistle

• Annual Sunflower

• Apple-of-Peru

• Arkansas Ironweed

• Arrowgrass

• Ashy Sunflower

• Asiatic Dayflower

• Asiatic Smartweed

• Atlantic Poison Oak

• Autumn Olive

• Bachelor Buttons

• Baldwin Ironweed

• Balloonvine

• Barnyardgrass

• Basketflower

• Beach Wormwood

• Bearded Beggarticks

• Bearded Sprangletop

• Bedstraw

• Beefsteak Plant

• Bermudagrass

• Biennial Evening Primrose

• Biennial Gaura

• Biennial Wormwod

• Big Sagebrush

• Bigleaf Periwinkle

• Bigroot Morningglory

• Birdseye Pearlwort

• Bishop's Goutweed

• Birdsfoot Trefoil

• Birdsrape Mustard

• Bishop's Flower

• Bitter Nightshade/Bittersweet Nightshade

• Bitter Sneezeweed

• Black Henbane

• Black Knapweed

• Black Locust

• Black Medic

• Black Mustard

• Black Nightshade

• Black Samson

• Black-Spine Greenbriar

• Blackseed Plantain

• Bladder Campion

• Blanket Flower

• Blue Field Madder

• Blue Lettuce

• Blue Mustard

• Blue Pimpernel

• Blue Vervain

• Bog Yellowcress

• Boneset

• Bouncing Bet

• Boxelder

• Bracken Fern

• Bracted Plantain

• Bracted Vervain

• Bristly Foxtail

• Bristly Greenbriar

• Bristly Starbur

• Broadleaf Dock

• Broadleaf Milkweed

• Broadleaf Plantain

• Broadleaf Signalgrass

• Broom Snakeweed

• Broomsedge

• Brown Knapweed

• Buckbrush

• Buckhorn Plantain

• Buffalobur

• Buffalogourd

• Bulbous Bluegrass

• Bull Thistle

• Burcucumber

• Burdock

• Burr Ragweed

• Bushy Aster

• Bushy Wallflower

• Butterfly Milkweed

• Butterfly Weed

• Butterweed

• Buttonweed

• California Amaranth

• Camelthorn

• Camphorweed

• Canada Milkvetch

• Canada Thistle

• Cardinal Climber Morningglory

• Carolina Elephantsfoot

• Carolina Geranium

• Carpetweed

• Catchweed Bedstraw

• Caucasian Bluestem

• Chamisa

• Chara

• Cheat, Cheatgrass

• Chicory

• Chinese Mustard

• Chinese Yam

• Cinnamon Vine

• Clammy Groundcherry

• Clasping Pepperweed

• Common Blue Violet

• Common Broomweed

• Common Burdock

• Common Catsear

• Common Cattail

• Common Chickweed

• Common Cocklebur

• Common Fleabane

• Common Groundsel

• Common Lambsquarters

• Common Lespedeza

• Common Mallow

• Common Milkweed

• Common Moonseed Vine

• Common Mullein

• Common Orach

• Common Ragweed

• Common Reed Grass

• Common Sneezeweed

• Common Teasel

• Common Vetch

• Common Waterhemp

• Common Yarrow

• Corn Gromwell

• Corn Speedwell

• Corn Spurry

• Cornflower

• Cow Parsley

• Cow Parsnip

• Cream Milkvetch

• Creeping Bellflower

• Creeping Buttercup

• Creeping Spurge

• Creeping Yellow Fieldcress

• Creeping Yellow Woodsorrel

• Crownvetch

• Cupid's Shavingbrush

• Curly Dock

• Curlycup Gumweed

• Cutleaf Evening Primrose

• Cutleaf Geranium

• Cutleaf Ironplant

• Cutleaf Nightshade

• Cutleaf Teasel

• Cypress Spurge

• Cypress Vine

• Daisy Fleabane

• Dallisgrass

• Dalmatian Toadflax

• Dames Rocket

• Dandelion

• Darnel

• Dayflower

• Deadnettle

• Death Camass

• Desert Goosefoot

• Devil's Beggarticks

• Devilsclaw

• Diffuse Knapweed

• Dodder

• Dogfennel

• Dollarweed

• Dovefoot Geranium

• Downy Bromegrass

• Downy Lettuce

• Downy Sunflower

• Duckweed

• Dwarf Fleabane

• Dwarf Sumac

• Eastern Baccharis

• Eastern Black Nightshade

• Eastern Red Cedar

• Eclipta

• Engelmann's Daisy

• English Daisy

• Entireleaf Morningglory

• Erect Dayflower

• Erect Knotweed

• Eurasian Watermilfoil

• European Buckthorn

• European Field Pansy

• European Marsh Thistle

• European Sticktight

• European Swamp Thistle

• Fall Panicum

• False Boneset

• False Buckwheat

• False Chamomile

• False Garlic

• False Nutsedge

• False Goldenaster

• False Sunflower

• False Tarragon

• Fat Hen

• Fetid Marigold

• Field Bindweed

• Field Horsetail

• Field Pansy

• Field Paspalum

• Field Pennycress

• Field Pepperweed

• Field Sagewort

• Field Sandbur

• Field Snakecotton

• Field Speedwell

• Field Thistle

• Field Violet

• Filamentous Algae

• Flixweed

• Flodman Thistle

• Florida Wild Lettuce

• Florda Tasselflower

• Flowering Spurge

• Fourpoint Evening Primrose

• Foxtail Barley

• Fringed Quickweed

• Fringed Sagebrush

• Frost Aster

• Garlic Mustard

• Giant Foxtail

• Giant Hogweed

• Giant Knotweed

• Giant Ragweed

• Giant Reed Grass

• Giant Sumpweed

• Globe Flatsedge

• Globe-Podded Hoary Cress

• Glossy Buckthorn

• Goldenaster

• Goldenrod

• Goosegrass

• Gray-Green Woodsorrel

• Gray Rabbitbrush

• Great Ironweed

• Great Plains Flatsedge

• Great Plains Goldenrod

• Greater Knapweed

• Green Antelopehorn Milkweed

• Green Foxtail

• Green Kyllinga

• Green Sagewort

• Greenbriar

• Greenflowered Pepperweed

• Ground Ivy

• Hackelia

• Hairy Aster

• Hairy Beggarticks

• Hairy Bittercress

• Hairy Buttercup

• Hairy Galinsoga

• Hairy Lettuce

• Hairy Nightshade

• Hairy Vetch

• Hairy Whitetop

• Halberd-Leaf Orach

• Halogeton

• Hardgrass

• Hardheads

• Heal-All

• Heath Aster

• Hedge Bindweed

• Hedge Mustard

• Hemp

• Hemp Dogbane

• Hemp Sesbania

• Henbit

• Hoary Alyssum

• Hoary Cress

• Hoary Vervain

• Hog Potato

• Hollow-Stemmed JoePye Weed

• Honeylocust

• Honeyvine Milkweed

• Hophornbeam Copperleaf

• Horsenettle

• Horseweed

• Houndstongue

• Hyssop Spurge, Hyssopleaf Spurge, Hyssopleaf Sandmat

• Indian Mock Strawberry

• Indian Mustard

• Ironweed

• Italian Thistle

• Ivyleaf Morningglory

• Ivyleaf Speedwell

• Jagged Chickweed

• Japanese Bromegrass

• Japanese Hedge Parsley

• Japanese Honeysuckle

• Japanese Knotweed

• Japanese Stiltgrass

• Japanese Wild Hops

• Jerusalem Artichoke

• Jerusalem Oak

• Jimsonweed

• Johnsongrass

• Jointed Goatgrass

• Junglerice

• Khakiweed

• Lanceleaf Ragweed

• Largeleaf Pennywort

• Late Boneset

• Late JoePye Weed

• Late Thoroughwort

• Lemon-Yellow Goldenaster

• Lens-Pod Whitetop

• Lens-Podded Hoary Cress

• Lesser Swinecress

• Little Mallow

• Louisiana Wormwood

• Low Cudweed

• Low Hopclover

• Malta Starthistle

• Marestail

• Marijuana

• Marsh Cudweed

• Marsh Yellowcress

• Marshelder

• Maximilian Sunflower

• Mayweed Chamomile

• Meadow Thistle

• Mexican Whorled Milkweed

• Mohave Thistle

• Mountain Cornflower

• Mouse-ear Chickweed

• Mugwort

• Musk Thistle

• Naked Sunflower

• Narrowleaved Coneflower

• Narrowleaved Milkweed

• Nepalese Browntop

• Nettleleaf Goosefoot

• Nodding Beggarticks

• Nodding Thistle

• Oriental Ladysthumb

• Oxeye

• Pale Milkvetch

• Pennsylvania Pellitory

• Perilla Mint

• Persian Speedwell

• Philadelphia Fleabane

• Pitseed Goosefoot

• Plains Coreopsis

• Plains Grass-Leaved Goldenrod

• Plains Milkweed

• Platte Thistle

• Plumeless Thistle

• Poison Hemlock

• Poison Ivy

• Pacific Poison Oak

• Poison Sumac

• Poorjoe

• Powell Amaranth

• Prairie Fleabane

• Prairie Goldenaster

• Prairie Sage

• Prostrate Pigweed

• Purple Amaranth

• Purple Coneflower

• Purple Cudweed

• Purple Nutsedge

• Purslane Speedwell

• Queen Anne's Lace

• Rampion Bellflower

• Redroot Pigweed

• Redstem Filaree

• Rice Button Aster

• Rice Flatsedge

• Ricefield Flatsedge

• Roundleaf Greenbriar

• Roundleaf Mallow

• Rubber Rabbitbrush

• Russian Knapweed

• Sand Sagebrush

• Saw Greenbriar

• Sawtooth Sunflower

• Scarlet Gaura

• Seaside Joyweed

• Shining Sumac

• Showy Milkweed

• Silver Sagebrush

• Skeletonleaf Ragweed

• Slim-leaf Milkweed

• Smallflower Galinsoga

• Small-Seeded False Flax

• Smallflower Geranium

• Smallflower Hawksbeard

• Smooth Hawksbeard

• Smooth Pigweed

• Smooth Sumac

• Southern Brass Buttons

• Spanish Needles

• Spearscale

• Spiny Amaranth

• Spotted JoePye Weed

• Spotted Knapweed

• Spreading Chervil

• Spreading Dogbane

• Spreading Orach

• Spring Whitlow Grass

• Squarrose Knapweed

• Staghorn Sumac

• Swamp Beggarticks

• Swamp Marigold

• Swamp Milkweed

• Swamp Thistle

• Sweet JoePye Weed

• Swinecress

• Stickseeds

• Syrian Rue

• Tall Beggarticks

• Tall Blue Lettuce

• Tall Boneset

• Tall JoePye Weed

• Tall Lettuce

• Tall Thistle

• Tall Thoroughwort

• Tall Tickseed Coreopsis

• Tall Waterhemp

• Tall White-Top

• Tarragon

• Texas Blueweed

• Texas Goldentop

• Thymeleaf Sandwort

• Tickseed Beggarticks

• Tree of Heaven

• Tropical Amaranth

• Tropical Milkweed

• Tumble Pigweed

• Venus' Looking Glass

• Water Hemlock

• Waterhemp

• Wavyleaf Thistle

• Waxleaf Goldenweed

• Weakleaf Bur Ragweed

• Weakleaf Bursage

• Western Beggarticks

• Western Ironweed

• Western Ragweed

• Western Sunflower

• Western Whorled Milkweed

• Western Yarrow

• White Heath Aster

• White Sage

• White Snakeroot

• Whorled Milkweed

• Wild Carrot

• Wild Chervil

• Wild Fennel

• Wild Parsnip

• Wild Turnip

• Willowleaf Sunflower

• Winged Sumac

• Woodland Lettuce

• Woolly Burdock

• Woolly Bursage

• Woollyleaf Bursage

• Yellow Chaff Flower

• Yellow Joyweed

• Yellow Nutsedge

• Yellow Starthistle

• Yellow Thistle

• Yellowspine Thistle

Go to Midwest Weeds and Wildflowers Home Page