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Guide to 7 Common Lawn Weeds Get a handle on some of the most common weeds by learning how to identify them and how to kill them. Dandelion See it. Mow high and feed your lawn regularly to promote healthy grass. Both products feed to promote a thick lawn and kill existing dandelions, tap root and all. Control: Prevent pokeweed with a deep layer of mulch.
Once the plant grows, hand-pull or spot-treat it with an herbicide. Appearance: Poison ivy can be a vine, shrub, or groundcover. The weed has leaves divided into three leaflets and can sprout clusters of green berries. Control: Prevent poison ivy with a deep layer of mulch.
If the weed starts to grow in your yard, spot-treat it with an herbicide or wrap your hand in a plastic bag, pull the plant up, roots and all, and carefully invert the plastic bag around the plant, seal, and throw away.
Test Garden Tip: The plant contains oils that cause a severe allergic skin reaction in many people when touched. These oils are present even on dead leaves and can become airborne and inhaled if the plant is burned. Appearance: Black nightshade can be a bushy or climbing plant with white or purple flowers and purple or red fruits. Control: Mulch your garden to prevent black nightshade.
Pull the weed by hand or treat with a postemergence herbicide. Test Garden Tip: All parts of this plant are poisonous including the fruits if swallowed. Where It Grows: Poor, dry, soil in full sun. Appearance: Identify this garden weed by its clover-type leaves and small, yellow flowers.
It grows as a dense mat, thanks to its creeping stems. Control: Mulch to prevent black medic in gardens. Pull or dig out weeds by hand or use a postemergence herbicide.
Discourage it by keeping the soil well watered and amended with organic matter such as compost. Appearance: This garden weed has wheatlike flower spikes, which appear above slender clumps of grassy foliage. Control: Mulch your garden well to prevent quackgrass. Dig plants out by hand, being sure to remove every bit of root.
Spot treat with a nonselective weed killer. Where It Grows: Landscape and garden areas in sun or shade. Appearance: Dock produces large, wavy-edge leaves and large seed heads covered with brown seeds. Control: Mulch to prevent dock. Pull and dig up plants or treat with a postemergence herbicide. Appearance: This lawn weed is a low, creeping plant with scallop-edge leaves and purple flowers. Control: Mulch to prevent henbit in gardens or use preemergence herbicide in spring. Pull plants by hand or treat in lawns with a broadleaf, postemergence herbicide.
Appearance: Fleabane has slender leaves attached to an upright, branching stem. It produces puffy white to pale lavender daisies. Control: Mulch your garden to prevent fleabane or use a preemergence herbicide in spring. Pull plants by hand or spot-treat with a postemergence herbicide. Appearance: This garden weed has sawtooth-edge leaves and yellowish flower clusters covered with stinging hairs. Control: Mulch to prevent nettle. Dig out weeds or treat with a postemergence herbicide.
Test Garden Tip: Always wear gloves when working around this plant the sharp hairs can irritate skin. Appearance: Green or purple-blushed leaves of prostrate spurge form dense mats. Control: Mulch your garden to prevent prostrate spurge or use a preemergence herbicide in lawns. Pull weeds when young or spot-treat with a postemergence herbicide. Where It Grows: Lawn, garden, and landscape areas with rich, moist soil in sun or shade. Appearance: This garden and lawn weed creates lush green mats studded with small, star-shape flowers.
Control: Mulch to prevent chickweed in gardens or use a preemergence herbicide in early spring. Pull weeds by hand. Where It Grows: Landscape and garden areas in full sun. Common chickweed Stellaria media L.
It germinates in fall or late winter. Corn Speedwell Veronica arvensis is a low-growing weed with tiny blue flowers.
It commonly invades thin turfgrass stands, neglected lawns and newly seeded lawns. Corn speedwell is one of the most prevalent of the weedy Veronica species. Henbit Lamium amplexicuale L. Square stems and purple to pink trumpet-shaped flowers that bloom in the spring.
Prefers moist fertile soils. Broadleaf Plantain Plantago major Broadleaf Plantains can be found in thin lawns that need to be fertilized. Characterized by rosettes of rounded leaves and short seed spikes. Dandelions Taraxacum officinale Danelions are one of the most common lawn weeds. Buckhorn Plantain Plantage lanceolata has rosettes lance-like leaves and bullet-like seedhead on wiry-stemmed seed stalks. They common in thin lawns with infertile soils.
Mouse-Ear Chickweed Cerastium vulgatum indicates moist, compacted soils. It spreads by creeping stems and has a dense growth habit that forms patches in lawns. Ground Ivy Glechoma hederacea L. Its creeping stems will root at the nodes, forming new plants. White Clover Trifolium repens L. It used to be considered an important part of lawn seed mixtures - many people now consider it a weed.
Bull Thistle Cirsium vulgare is a deep-rooted biennial. This weed is found throughout the United States. Primarily growing in pastures and roadside ditches. Annual Bluegrass Poa annua is a winter annual that grows vigorously in moist, cool, shaded conditions and tolerates compacted soils.
Smooth Crabgrass Digitaria ischaemum : Crabgrass is a warm-season annual grass, which means it sprouts from seed in late spring and summer and will die when the first hard frost arrives in the fall. Weed Name: Ground Ivy Characteristics: Rounded, scalloped leaves Four-sided, mint-family, squared stems Small, funnel-shaped, purple flowers Weed Type: Broadleaf, mat-forming perennial with a distinctive odor when crushed. How it Spreads: By seed and above-ground runners, known as stolons, that root at the nodes.
Different types of weeds call for different controls, and some Southern lawn grasses, such as St. Augustinegrass and Centipedegrass, are sensitive to some weed-control products. Always check the label to make sure the product you choose is suitable for your lawn grass. Germination starts in spring, once soil temperatures reach approximately 55 degrees Fahrenheit — the same temperature that sends forsythia shrubs into bloom.
Proper weed management works to stop those seeds from germinating and rid your lawn of any that sneak through. Pennington UltraGreen Crabgrass Preventer Plus Fertilizer III inhibits germination and root development of crabgrass and stops many weed grasses and broadleaf weed seeds when applied in early spring, before weed seeds germinate. While controlling weeds for three to five months, this nitrogen-rich product continues to feed your lawn.
Pennington UltraGreen Crabgrass Preventer Plus Fertilizer III prevents crabgrass germination, suppresses other weed grass and broadleaf weed seeds and controls weed grass for three to five months while feeding your lawn with slow-release nitrogen. Augustinegrass lawns, kill and suppress tough existing broadleaf weeds and control new weeds for up to three months in established lawns. Targeted Weed Control: When existing perennial weeds continue to be a problem, or when new weed seeds germinate and seedlings emerge, a targeted post-emergent herbicide is the answer.
IMAGE All-in-One Weed Killer herbicide offers a broad spectrum of selective weed control for difficult sedges, crabgrass and broadleaf weeds, killing weed roots, shoots and nutlets. These weed killers target weeds only and are suitable for most cool- and warm-season lawn grasses. Augustinegrass and Centipedegrass provide targeted, selective control of tenacious, emerged weeds.
Keeping your lawn grass healthy and competitive provides the best defense against lawn weed invasions.
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