Revised June 2007

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Weed identification

Summer annual broadleaf

Biennial broadleaf

Perennial broadleaf

Summer annual grass

Winter annual grass

Perennial grass

Plants resembling grasses

Herbicides

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Summer annual broadleaf

Pigweed, smooth (Amaranthus hybridus)

Smooth pigweed
Smooth pigweed

An erect summer annual that may reach as much as 6-1/2 feet in height. Cotyledons are narrow and have a reddish tint. First true leaves are alternate, ovate in shape, and slightly notched at the tip of the leaf blade. Hairs may occur on the leaf margins and along veins, especially along the lower leaf surfaces. Stems also have short hairs, more so than with redroot pigweed. Mature plants have leaves that are alternate, ovate in outline, and generally with less wavy margins than redroot pigweed. Flowers are inconspicuous and produced in dense, compact terminal and axillary panicles that are longer than those of redroot pigweed and not prickly to the touch.

Smooth pigweed
Wild thing

IPM1007, revised June 2007