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Common Lawn Weeds of Northeastern North America

I'm thinking specifically of weeds that occur abundantly in short, regularly-mowed lawns.
Please message me if you'd like to contribute or have species suggestions...
Definitely unfinished.

white clover 1
Trifolium repens
common dandelion 2
Taraxacum officinale
greater plantain 3
Plantago major
ground ivy 4
Glechoma hederacea
upright yellow woodsorrel 5
Oxalis stricta
Black Medic 6
Medicago lupulina
field bindweed 7
Convolvulus arvensis
Crabgrasses 8
Digitaria
Smooth Meadow-grass 9
Poa pratensis
ribwort plantain 10
Plantago lanceolata
avens 11
Geum
nipplewort 12
Lapsana communis
Cerastium 13

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