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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 Herb Robert Geranium robertianum Lesser Celandine Ranunculus ficaria Ramsons (Wild Garlic) Allium ursinum Long-headed Poppy Papaver dubium dubium Field Forget-me-not Myosotis arvensis 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 Birdsfoot Trefoils Lotus corniculatus Wood Sorrels Oxalis corniculata Red Dead-nettles Lamium purpureum Chickweeds Stellaria media Blinkss Monita fontana Creeping Wood Sorrels Oxalis corniculata var. atropurpurea Ivy-leaved Toadflaxs Cymbalaria muralis Ivy-leaved Speedwells Veronica hederifolia Trailing Tormentils Potentilla anglica Parsley-pierts Aphanes arvensiss Ground Elderu Aegopodium podagraria Colt's Footu Tussilago farfara Winter Heliotropeu Petasites fragrans Creeping Buttercups Ranunculus repens Pirri-Pirri-Burrs Acaena ovalifolia new Zealand Willowherbs Epilobium brunnescens 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 Sorrel Rumex acetosa Rumex acetosella 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 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 Yarrow Achillea millefolium Pineappleweed Matricaria matricarioides Common Ragwort Senecio jacobaea Giant Hogweed Heracleum mantegazzianum Bracken Pteridium aquilinum Cow Parsley Anthriscus sylvestris back to top /\

SCRAMBLERS - grow through other plants or objects to support their weak stems. Bindweed Calystegia sepium Cleavers Galium aparine Bush Vetch Vica sepium Corn Spurry Spergula arvensis 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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