Weeds and Leaf Structures

Flashcards covering key terms and definitions related to common weeds, their classifications, and leaf structures.

Fabaceae

A family of plants that includes legumes and peas such as lentils, peas, and fababeans.

Asteraceae

The sunflower family, which includes plants like dandelion and Canada thistle.

Chenopodaceae

Also known as the goosefoot family, includes plants like Kahia and Russian thistle.

Amaranthaceae

A family of flowering plants that includes red root pigweed and prostrate pigweed.

Leaf Shapes

Different forms of leaves such as linear, lanceolate, oblanceolate, oblong, oval, reniform, cordate, deltoid.

Compound Leaf

A type of leaf where leaflets are attached to a common stalk; includes palmate and pinnate.

Simple Leaf

A leaf type that is not divided into smaller leaflets; includes simple palmate, simple pinnate, and trifoliate.

Weed Categories

Classification of weeds into prohibited, noxious, and nuisance; with examples like poison hemlock for prohibited.

Prohibited Weeds

Weeds that are to be kept out and eradicated, such as poison hemlock and garlic mustard.

Nuisance Weeds

Weeds that are troublesome but not severe; includes dandelion and Russian thistle.