Transcript Stellaria media

Aphanes microcarpa (belly
plant)
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In the rose family –
Rosaceae
Palmately lobed leaves
Leaves are alternately
placed along the stem
Cardamine hirsuta
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Brassicaceae
Rosette forming annual
Pinnately compound
leaves
Sausage-like fruit
Little white flowers
Capsella bursa-pastoris
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Has heart-shaped fruit
Finely divided leaves
Cerastium glomeratum
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mouse ear shaped leaves (opposite)
Hairy stems and leaves compared to Stellaria media
Distance between internodes is shorter than Stellaria
media
Dichondra carolinensis
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Viny/Creeping perennial weed
Has round/kidney shaped leaves
Facelis retusa
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Herbaceous
Bicolor leaves –green top and whitish
bottom
Leaf has spine at tip
Introduced weed
Galium spp.
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Square stems
Whorled leaves, elongate
Covered with small hairs, so it sticks on
surfaces.
White flower
Geranium carolinianum
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Native geranium
Palmately dissected leaf
Small, purplish flower
Fruits look like a crane’s bill or stork’s bill
Houstonia sp
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Tiny flowering plant
4-petaled blue flowers
Lamium amplexicaule
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Square stems
Clasping bracts (amplexus) under purple flowers
Lamium purpureum
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Square stems
Reddish leaves on the top of
plant
Purple flowers tucked with
the leaves (pagoda like
appearance)
Rumex sp.
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Large elongate leaf
Curly leaf margin
Strong loopy venation present underneath the
leaf
Sherardia arvensis
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Square stems
Whorled leaves, broader leaf than Galium
Lavender flower
Soliva sessilis
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Carrot-like leaf
Deeply divided leaf
Leaves in rosette when plant young
Makes inflorescence with spiny tips when mature
Stellaria media
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Opposite leaves
Less hairy compared to Cerastium
glomeratum
Taraxacum sp.
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Rosette forming perennials
Mitotic seed production (agamospermy)
Leaf tip shaped like an arrowhead
Yellow inflorescence
Bleeds milky juice
Trifolium incarnatum
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3 leaflets
Common roadside flower (red)
Relatively large leaves
Has nitrogen fixing bacteria Rhizobium
Trifolium dubium
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Yellow flowers
Trifolium repens
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Has white flowers
Veronica arvensis
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Heart-shaped fruit
Fruit is in axil of the leaf
Blue flower
Veronica hederifolia
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Palmately lobed leaf
Globose fruit hangs off the plant
Long hair compared to V. arvensis
Vicia spp.
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Alternate, pinnately compound leaves
Legume
Tendrils at the tip of the leaf
Extrafloral nectaries on stipules (the brown
spots)
Viola spp.
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Large stipules
Purplish pansy-like flower