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Below are some leaves of common weeds. While leaves are the largest feature of most plants and are a good initial means of identifying a plant, the features which are more definitive are the flowers and fruit. Most of the pictures in the monographs for plants described on this site include a picture of the flowers and some fruit. Click on the leaf picture or title to go to the monograph for details and how to deal with them.
The leaves are arranged in groups according to growth habit although some could be in a category which applies only at certain times of the year, ie. many plants grow as basal rosettes or low clumps and produce flowering stems which can be many times taller.

LOW ROSETTES  LOW CLUMPS   UPRIGHT STEMS  SCRAMBLERS  GRASS-LIKE

LOW ROSETTES - grow close to the ground as a single plant, with leaves arising from a central growing point. (Most biennial plants could be in this section as they grow like this in their first season, but their tall flowering stem puts them in the Upright Stems section.) Dandelion Taraxacum officinale Autumn Hawkbit Leontodon autumnalis Broad-leaved Plantain Plantago major Ribwort Plantain Plantago lanceolata Hairy Bittercress Cardamine hirsuta New Zealand Bittercress Cardamine corymbosa Shepherd's Purse Capsella bursa-pastoris Thale Cress Arabidopsis thaliana Lesser Celandine Ranunculus ficaria Ramsons (Wild Garlic) Allium ursinum Long-headed Poppy Papaver dubium dubium Field Forget-me-not Myosotis arvensis Fox-and-cubs Pilosella aurantiaca Sheep's Sorrel Rumex acetosella Common Sorrel Rumex acetosa Herb Robert Geranium robertianum Meadow Buttercups Ranunculus acris Creeping Buttercups Ranunculus repens back to top /\

LOW CLUMPS - low mounds or rosettes which spread by rooting surfaces or undergroundu stems. White Clovers Trifolium repens Lesser Trefoils Trifolium dubium Wood Sorrels Oxalis corniculata Creeping Wood Sorrels Oxalis corniculata var. atropurpurea Red Dead-nettles Lamium purpureum Ground-ivys Glechoma hederacea Yellow Archangels Lamium galeobdolon 'Variegatum' Ivy-leaved Toadflaxs Cymbalaria muralis Ivy-leaved Speedwells Veronica hederifolia Chickweeds Stellaria media Common Mouse-ears Cerastium fontanum Ground Elderu Aegopodium podagraria Colt's Footu Tussilago farfara Winter Heliotropeu Petasites fragrans Pirri-Pirri-Burrs Acaena ovalifolia New Zealand Willowherbs Epilobium brunnescens Mind-your-own-businesss Soleirolia soleirolii Knotgrass Polygonum aviculare Blinkss Monita fontana Trailing Tormentils Potentilla anglica Parsley-pierts Aphanes arvensiss back to top /\

UPRIGHT STEMS - single or multiple stems, some grow at ground level for part of the year and produce upright flowering stems. Marsh Cudweed Gnaphalium uliginosum Broadleaved dock Rumex obtusifolius Redshank Persicaria maculosa Common Hemp-nettle Galeopsis tetrahit Marsh Woundwort Stachys palustris Hedge Woundwort Stachys sylvatica Stinging Nettle Urtica dioica Fat Hen Chenopodium album Oilseed Rape Brassica napus Japanese Knotweed Polygonum japonicum Common Figwort Scrophularia nodosa Purple Loosestrife Lythrum salicaria Rosebay Willow-herb Epilobium angustifolium Broad-leaved Willowherb Epilobium montanum Great Willowherb Epilobium hirsutum Spear Thistle Circium vulgare Creeping Thistle Cirsium arvense Prickly Sow-thistle Sonchus asper Smooth Sow-thistle Sonchus oleraceus Green Alkanet Pentaglottis sempervirens Foxglove Digitalis purpurea Nipplewort Lapsana communis Wall Lettuce Mycelis muralis Common Fumitory Fumaria officinalis Cow Parsley Anthriscus sylvestris Pineappleweed Matricaria matricarioides Common Ragwort Senecio jacobaea Bracken Pteridium aquilinum Feverfew Tanacetum parthenium Yarrow Achillea millefolium back to top /\

SCRAMBLERS - grow through other plants or objects to support their weak stems, sometimes just draping themselves over (eg. Cleavers), twining their stems (eg. Bindweed) or using tendrils to cling on (eg. Vetch) Bindweed Calystegia sepium Bittersweet Solanum dulcamara Birdsfoot Trefoils Lotus corniculatus Cleavers Galium aparine Corn Spurry Spergula arvensis Bush Vetch Vica sepium Common Vetch Vica sativa Tufted Vetch Vica cracca Greater Stitchwort Stellaria holostea back to top /\

GRASS-LIKE - obvious grasses are not featured. Field Woodrush Luzula Campestris Toadrush Juncus bufonius Pearlwort Sagina procumbens back to top /\

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