Bermudagrass Johnsongrass Medusahead Quackgrass Field Bindweed Hoary Cress Diffuse Knapweed Russian Knapweed Spotted Knapweed Squarrose Knapweed Purple Loosestrife Perennial Pepperweed Leafy Spurge Yellow Starthsitle Canada Thistle Musk Thistle Scotch Thistle Dyer's Woad Back to main weeds page   Goatsrue Galega officinalis   Rosette Stems are green from the ground up. Leaves are compound pinnate with five to eight pairs of leaflets. Adult Goatsrue is a very prolific, taprooted, perennial legume growing from two to five feet in height. Flower Purple, blue or white flowers grow along the tops of stems, and produce one-inch spike shaped seedpods. Bloom occurs in late spring. Weed Infestation Goatsrue is native to the Middle East. It grows best in moist areas, especially along waterways, also along field edges, roadsides, and pastures. It reproduces by seed that spread mainly by irrigation flows. In Utah it is known to exist only in Cache County. Seed pods Several thousand one to two inch long seed pods are produced by each plant. Back to main weeds page   Buffalobur Common Burdock Camelthorn Goatsrue Jointed Goatgrass Poison Hemlock Black Henbane Houndstongue Blue-Flowering Lettuce Western Whorled Milkweed Silverleaf Nightshade Yellow Nutsedge Puncturevine Russian-Olive Saltcedar St. Johnswort Bull Thistle Dalmatian Toadflax Yellow Toadflax Velvetleaf