Weeds of pastures in Mississippi

This website is an attempt to provide pictures that can be used to help identify weeds that commonly occur in pastures and along the fences around pastures in Mississippi. This is by no means a complete list, but does contain many weeds that occur in pastures. Additional pictures will be added as time progresses.

Broadleaf weeds with thorns
  • amaranth, spiny (also called hogweed or spiny pigweed)
    closeup of thorn
    seedhead
  • apple, tropical soda
    young plant
    seedlings in cow manure
    comparison of tropical soda apple and Carolina horsenettle characteristics
  • blackberry
  • buffalobur
    flower and fruit
  • burweed, lawn
    closeup of thorns
  • dewberry
  • horsenettle, Carolina
    fruits
  • nightshade, sticky
  • rose, multiflora
  • thistle
    closeup of flower
    closeup of rosette stage

    Woody plants with thorns
  • bois d'arc (also called osage orange)
    sapling
    closeup of thorn
    fruit
  • locust, honey
    closeup of thorns
  • trifoliate orange
    closeup of fruit and thorns

    Weedy vines
  • gourd, Texas
    seedlings
    small plant
    immature fruit
    mature fruits (some fruits have neck, others don't)
    comparison of smellmelon fruit and Texas gourd fruits (without necks)
  • honeysuckle, Japanese
  • kudzu
    closeup of flower
  • morningglory, cypressvine
  • morningglory, entireleaf
  • morningglory, ivyleaf
  • morningglory, pitted
  • passionflower, maypop
    fruit
    flower
  • peppervine
    closeup of leaf
    immature fruit
  • poison-ivy
  • smellmelon
    closeup of immature fruit

    Weeds with showy flowers
  • buttercup
    closeup of flower
  • milkweed, butterfly
  • milkweed, green
  • spring-beauty, narrowleaf
    single plant

    Grassy weeds
  • bahiagrass
    closeup of seedhead
  • barley, little
  • broomsedge
  • cogongrass
  • crabgrass, southern
    collar
    seedhead
  • dallisgrass
    seedhead
    ligule
  • foxtail, knotroot
    collar region
    seedhead
  • smutgrass
    closeup

    Weeds that look like grasses, but aren't
  • bulrush
  • garlic, wild
  • nutsedge, purple
    seedhead
  • nutsedge, yellow
    seedhead
  • sedge, Cherokee
  • pathrush

    Other broadleaf weeds that grow during summer
  • amaranth, Palmer
  • buttonweed, Virginia
  • croton, tropic
  • croton, woolly
  • dock, broadleaf
  • dock, curly
  • dogfennel (also called cypressweed)
  • ladysthumb
  • lespedeza, common
  • goldenrod
  • mint, perilla
    young plant
  • pigweed, redroot
  • pigweed, smooth
  • ragweed, common
  • sida, prickly (also called teaweed)
  • smartweed, Pale
  • smartweed, Pennsylvania
  • sneezeweed, bitter (also called bitterweed)

    Other broadleaf weeds that grow during winter
  • chickweed, common
  • chickweed, mouseear
  • dandelion, common
  • geranium, Carolina
  • henbit
  • wild mustard
  • individual mustard plant
  • vetch, common

    Woody plants
  • baccharis, eastern
    closeup of plant
  • hackberry
  • persimmon
  • sassafras
  • willow

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