The lists presented here contain only some of the most common weeds found in the pastures and hayfields of Ohio. For a complete list of weeds in Ohio, a publication called Weeds of the North Central States, North Central Region Research Publication No. 281, is published by the University of illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Station. A perennial, reproducing by seed. Flower are numerous, petals inconspicuous, in short cylindrical spikes at ends of stems.
Seedpods are two-seeded, splitting across the middle.
Seeds are small, brown, shiny, smooth, boat-shaped, with an indentation in the middle of one side, and sticky when damp. There is also a Broadleaf Plantain that has broad, egg-shaped leaves with petioles, and the seed pods are in a cylindrical pattern on the upper several inches of the stem. A perennial reproducing from seeds and horizontal roots. Roots extend several feet deep and some distance horizontally. Leaves usually with crinkled edges and spiny margins, somewhat lobed, and smooth.