Common Weeds
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DANDELION
- Perennial
- Most common weed we’ll see in lawns.
- Tips of leaves are rounded and point backward toward stem
- Yellow Flowers
- Appears early spring to late fall
- Tolerates many soil types and cultural conditions
- Treatment: 7 Step Lawn Care Program
THISTLE
- Perennial & Biennial
- Leaves are dull, rough and grayish green
- Leaves are covered in spines
- Roots grow deep
- Prefers poor, open turf
- Flowers can be purple and generally produce from June through October
- Treatment: 7 Step Lawn Care Program
- Perennial (Cool and Warm Season)
- Leaves are rounded and veined
- Stems are square shaped
- Flowers are small, purplish blue and trumpet shaped and appear April to June
- Also known as Creeping Charlie
- Grows across the ground forming large patches
- Can take multiple applications to reduce presence and/or eradicate
- Treatment: 7 Step Lawn Care Program
- Specialty Program: Viney Weed Control
WHITE CLOVER
- Perennial (Cool-Season)
- Dark green with 3 leaflets
- White crescent-shaped mark on leaves
- Can grow in large patches if left untreated
- White flowers
- Treatment: 7 Step Lawn Care Program
- Specialty Program: Viney Weed Control
PLANTAINS
- All Plantains
- Perennial (Cool-Season)
- Grow wide and low to the ground
- Buckhorn Plantain
- Leaves are long narrow and pointed
- Veins prominent and parallel
- Seedheads are at the tip of long and thin stalks
- Broadleaf Plantain
- Leaves are large, oval with almost parallel veins
- Flowers in a long thin spike
- Treatment: 7 Step Lawn Care Program
WILD VIOLET
- Annual or Perennial (Cool-Season)
- Leaves are heart shaped and covered with fine hairs
- Flowers are purple and appear in early spring
- Treatment: 7 Step Lawn Care Program
- Specialty Program: Viney Weed Control
HENBIT
- Annual (Cool-Season)
- Leaves are kidney shaped, hairy and deeply veined
- Stems are squared
- Flowers are purple to pink to red and trumpet shaped and appear April through June
- Grows upright
- Treatment: 7 Step Lawn Care Program
OXALIS
- Perennial (Warm-Season)
- Grows upright
- Commonly mistaken for clover
- Yellow flowers with 5 petals
- Leaves have 3 heart shaped leaflets that are somewhat folded
- Treatment: 7 Step Lawn Care Program
- Specialty Program: Viney Weed Control
PURSLANE
- Annual (Warm-Season)
- Leaves are shiny and bright green
- Stems are thick, round and reddish
- Lies flat along the ground with tips raised
- Flowers yellow, July through September
- Treatment: 7 Step Lawn Care Program
- Specialty Program: Viney Weed Control
SPOTTED SPURGE
- Annual (Warm-Season)
- Leaves are oblong shaped and hairy
- Purplish spot on top of leaves
- Grows flat and mat like along the ground
- Damaged stems will exude a milky white sap
- Prefers hot, dry weather on sandy, nutrient poor soils
- Treatment: 7 Step Lawn Care Program
- Specialty Program: Viney Weed Control
KNOTWEED
- Annual (Warm-Season)
- Ochreas are present on the stems where leaves grow (bottom right picture)
- Prefers compacted soils that are not fertile
- Thrives in sunny areas where turf is thin
- Treatment: 7 Step Lawn Care Program
- Specialty Program: Viney Weed Control
- Annual
- Lie flat and spread wide
- Commonly seen around edges of driveways, sidewalks and streets, any dry hot areas
- Starts germinating when soil temperatures are 55-65 degrees consecutively and dies at the first frost
- Treatment: 7 Step Lawn Care Program
- Specialty Program: Sedge and Weedy Grass Control Program