ROADWEEDS OF THE UPPER PENINSULA


The list of species included on this website.

Purple/Blue Flowers   Yellow/Orange Flowers
Purple Loosestrife
Spotted Knapweed
Wild Bergamot
Thistles
Asters
Fireweed
Common Milkweed
Swamp Milkweed
Alfalfa
Self-heal
Red Clover
Bouncing Bet
Chicory
Lythrum salicaria
Centaurea maculosa
Monarda fistulosa
Cirsium spp.
Aster spp.
Epilobium angustifolium
Asclepias syrica
Asclepias incarnata
Medicago sativa
Prunella vulgaris
Trifolium pratense
Saponaria officinalis
Cichorium intybus

Cinquefoil
Wild Parsnip
Sow Thistle
Butter n'Eggs
Common Mullein
Goldenrods
Common Tansy
Black-eyed Susan
Hop Clover
Birdfoot Trefoil
St. Johnswort
Buttercups
Hawkweed
Indian Paintbrush
Potentilla spp.
Pastinaca sativa
Sonchus arvensis
Linaria vulgaris
Verbascum thapsis
Solidago spp.
Tanacetum vulgare
Rudbeckia hirta
Trifolium aureum
Lotus corniculata
Hypericum perforatum
Ranunculus spp.
Hieracium spp.
Castilleja coccinea

White/Green Flowers   Grasses    
Fleabane
Daisies
Queen Anne's Lace
Wild Strawberry
Sweet Clover
Burdock
Plantain
Curly Dock
Erigeron annuus
Chrysanthemum leucanthemum
Daucus carota
Fragaria vesca
Melilotus alba
Arctium minus
Plantago major
Rumex spp.
Timothy
Smooth Brome
Reed Canary
Beach
Red Top
Phleum pratense
Bromus inermis
Phalaris arundinacea
Ammophila breviligulata
Festuca rubra

This site created and maintained by Bill Cook, MSU Extension Forester for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, now retired.  He continues to respond to suggestions, questions, and corrections. Contact him at cookwi@msu.edu.