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Weed guide
The common garden weeds, one page each: how to spot it, what it is often confused with, and what to do about it. Every page lists the official sources it was checked against.
Lawn weeds
The ones that turn up in grass.
Dandelion
Taraxacum officinale agg.
Bindii
Soliva sessilis
White clover
Trifolium repens
Black medic
Medicago lupulina
Crabgrass
Digitaria sanguinalis
Winter grass
Poa annua
Creeping oxalis
Oxalis corniculata
Broadleaf plantain
Plantago major
Ribwort plantain
Plantago lanceolata
Creeping Charlie
Glechoma hederacea
Lawn daisy
Bellis perennis
Nutgrass
Cyperus rotundus
Wild onion and wild garlic
Allium canadense and Allium vineale
Wild violet
Viola sororia and Viola odorata
Paspalum
Paspalum dilatatum
Speedwell
Veronica species
Capeweed
Arctotheca calendula
Garden beds
Fast annuals that seed into bare soil.
Hairy bittercress
Cardamine hirsuta
Chickweed
Stellaria media
Spurge
Euphorbia maculata and Euphorbia peplus
Henbit
Lamium amplexicaule
Fleabane
Conyza bonariensis and Conyza canadensis
Creepers and tough perennials
Weeds that come back from roots, runners or bulbs.
Field bindweed
Convolvulus arvensis
Horsetail
Equisetum arvense
Ground elder
Aegopodium podagraria
Onion weed
Nothoscordum borbonicum and Allium triquetrum
Couch grass
Cynodon dactylon
Broad-leaved dock
Rumex obtusifolius
Creeping thistle
Cirsium arvense
Harmful to touch
Plants whose oil or sap can burn or blister skin. Handle with care.
Poison ivy
Toxicodendron radicans
Giant hogweed
Heracleum mantegazzianum
Stinging nettle
Urtica dioica and Urtica urens
Serious invaders
Weeds that escape gardens and damage bushland and waterways.
