CFAES Seed ID Workshop

Seed ID Workshop

Department of Horticulture and Crop Science
The Ohio State University

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Families

Caryophyllaceae

Scrophulariaceae

Sorted by Common Name

alfalfa
alyssum, hoary
artichoke
asparagus
bachelor’s-button, cornflower
balloonvine; heartseed
barley
barley, foxtail
barnyardgrass
bean, field; garden bean
bean, lima
bean, mung
bean, scarlet runner
bedstraw
beet; sugar beet
bentgrass, colonial
bentgrass, creeping
bentgrass, velvet
bermudagrass
bermudagrass, giant
bindweed, field
bindweed, hedge
blackberry; raspberry
bluegrass, annual
bluegrass, bulbous
bluegrass, Canada
bluegrass, Kentucky
bluegrass, rough
bluegrass, wood
bluestem, big
bluestem, Caucasian
bluestem, little
bluestem, sand
bluestem, yellow
bottle gourd
bristlegrass, knotroot
bristlegrass, yellow; yellow foxtail
broadbean; fava-bean; horsebean
broccoli; cauliflower
brome, blando; soft chess
brome, downy
brome, hairy; hairy chess
brome, mountain
brome, prairie; rescue
brome, ripgut
brome, smooth
brussels-sprouts
buckwheat, wild; black bindweed
buffalobur
buffalograss
buffelgrass, hairy
bullrush
bur cucumber
burdock, great
buttercup, smallflower
buttonweed, rough
cabbage
cabbage, Chinese pe-tsai
campion
campion, bladder
campion, red; red cockle
canarygrass
canarygrass, reed
caraway
carpetgrass
carrot
carrot, wild; queen Anne’s-lace
castorbean
cat’s-ear, spotted
catchfly, night-flowering
catnip
celeriac
celery
chamomile, field
Chard, Swiss
cheat; chess
chervil
chickweed, common
chickweed, mouse-ear
chives
cinquefoil
clover, alsike
clover, arrowleaf
clover, crimson
clover, large hop
clover, red
clover, rose
clover, strawberry
clover, subterranean; subclover
clover, suckling; small hop clover
clover, white; ladino clover
cockle, white; white campion
cocklebur
cocklebur, common
corn
corncockle
cotton
cow-cockle
crabgrass, large; hairy crabgrass
crabgrass, smooth
cress, garden
crotalaria
crotalaria, showy; showy rattlepod
cucumber
dallisgrass
dandelion
darnel
deadnettle, purple
dichondra
dill
dock, broadleaf; bitter dock
dock, curly; sour dock
dock, golden
dock, pale; smooth dock; tall dock
dodder
dragonhead, American
dropseed, annual
dropseed, sand
eggplant
endive
evening-primrose
falseflax, littleseed
fanweed; frenchweed, field pennycress
fescue, chewings
fescue, meadow
fescue, rattail
fescue, sheep
fescue, tall
fiddleneck
fir
flat-pea
flax
foxtail, giant
foxtail, green
foxtail, water
gallium; cleavers
garlic, wild
gaura
geranium
geranium, Carolina
geranium, cutleaf
germander, American
goatgrass, jointed
goosefoot
goosegrass
grama, black
grama, blue
grama, side-oats
gromwell, corn; gromwell, field
groundcherry
guineagrass
hairgrass
hawksbeard, smooth
heal-all; self-heal
hedgeparsley
hemlock, poison
hemp; marijuana
horsenettle, Carolina; bullnettle
horsenettle, white; purple nightshade; silverleaf nightshade
indiangrass, yellow
indigo, hairy
jimsonweed
johnsongrass
kale, Siberian
kale; collard; ornamental kale
kleingrass
knapweed, Russian
knotweed, prostrate
kochia
kodo; thin paspalum
kohlrabi
ladysthumb
lambsquarter, common
leek
lentil
lespedeza, common; striate lespedeza
lespedeza, Korean
lettuce
lovegrass, Boer
lovegrass, sand
madder, field
mallow, little
mallow, prickly
mallow, roundleaf
marigold
mayweed; dogfennel
medic, black
milkweed, common
millet, broomcorn, proso millet
millet, browntop
millet, foxtail; Italian millet
millet, Japanese
moonflower, purple; giant morning-glory
moonflower; white morning-glory
morning-glory
morning-glory, ivyleaf
morning-glory, tall, wild, or woolly
muskmelon; cantaloupe; honeydew
mustard, black
mustard, brown, Indian, India
mustard, white
mustard, wild; wild turnip; charlock
needlegrass, green
nightshade, black
nightshade, eastern black
nutgrass, purple; purple nutsedge
nutgrass, yellow; yellow nutsedge
oat
oat, wild
oatgrass, tall
okra
onion
onion, wild
orchardgrass
oxtongue, bristly
pak-choi
parsley
paspalum, field
pea, black-eyed; cowpea; southern-pea
pea, field; garden pea
pea, yellow; yellow vetchling
pepper
peppercress; peppergrass
peppergrass, field
peppermint
pepperweed, Virginia
pigweed
pimpernel, scarlet
pine
pinks
plantain, bracted
plantain, broadleaf
plantain, buckhorn
plantain, paleseed; Virginia plantain
poppy
povertyweed, mouse-ear sumpweed
puncturevine
purpletop
quackgrass
radish
radish, wild
ragweed, bur; povertyweed
ragweed, common
ragweed, giant
rape, annual
redtop
rhodesgrass
rhubarb
rice
ricegrass, Indian
rose, multiflora
rose, wild
rough-pea; Austrian winter-pea
rush
rush, path
russianthistle, common
rutabaga
rye
ryegrass, Italian; annual ryegrass
ryegrass, perennial
ryegrass, Persian; Persian darnel
sacaton, alkali
safflower
sage
salsify
salsify, meadow; yellow goatsbeard
saltbush, fourwing
sandbur, field
sedge
sesame
shepherd’s purse
signalgrass, broadleaf
smartweed, pale
sorghum, almum
sorghum; broomcorn; milo
sorrel, sheep; red sorrel
sorrel; garden sorrel
sourclover
sowthistle, annual
sowthistle, perennial
sowthistle, spiny
soybean
spinach
spinach, New Zealand
sprangletop, green
spurge
spurge, leafy
spurge, spotted
squash, winter (large); pumpkin, mammoth
squash, winter (small); pumpkin (small)
St. John’s-wort, common; klamathweed
starthisle, yellow
sudangrass; sorghum-sudangrass
sweetclover, white
sweetclover, yellow
switchgrass
tarweed
Texas blueweed
thistle, blessed
thistle, bull
thistle, Canada
thistle, musk; nodding thistle
thistle, plumeless
three-seeded mercury
timothy
tobacco
tomato
trefoil, big
trefoil, birdsfoot
turnip, annual turnip rape; bird rape
tussock, serrated
velvet leaf; butterprint
vernalgrass, sweet
vervain
vetch, common
vetch, hairy
vetch, Hungarian
vetch, purple
vetch, showy
watercress
watermelon
wheat, common
wheatgrass, fairway crested
wheatgrass, intermediate
wheatgrass, Siberian
wheatgrass, slender
wheatgrass, standard crested
wheatgrass, tall
wheatgrass, thickspike; streambank
wheatgrass, western
whitetop, hairy; ball cress
whitetop; heartpod hoarycress
wildrye, Canada
wildrye, Russian
wildrye, Virginia
wintercress, bitter; yellowrocket
wintercress, early; cress, upland
witchgrass
woodsorrel, yellow
yellowcress

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