Weeds
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Learn More about Herbicides to Control Lawn Weeds
When you go to the lawn and garden store to buy weed control products, it can be a bit daunting. Let's try to simplify your choices for controlling the vast majority of weeds that can spring up in your yard.
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Know When to Apply Herbicides
Now that you understand a little more about the active ingredients in weed control products, it's good to also review the timing of herbicide applications.
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Crabgrass
For all the fear "crabgrass" strikes in homeowners, it is a relatively simple plant to control.
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Giving Perennial Weeds a One-Two Punch
No matter how hard you pull, how often you spray or how loud you scream, some weeds always seem to pop up in your lawn.
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Creeping bent grass (Agrostis palustris)
Creeping bent grass loves to creep up in cooler weather. It grows relatively low and has slender, pointed, light-green leaves.
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Ground ivy (Glechoma hederacea)
Ground ivy grows low and shows no mercy when overtaking an area.
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Purple nutsedge (Cyperus rotundus)
The darker version of its yellow cousin, purple nutsedge has almost identical properties apart from the purple color of its flower.
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Quack grass (Agropyron repens)
A weed that loves the winter, quack grass actually spreads its rhizomes during the winter.
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Smooth crabgrass (Digitaria ischaemum)
The enemy of barefoot walks across your lawn, smooth crabgrass is a warm-season, annual grass weed.
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Spotted spurge (Euphorbia maculata)
This summer broadleaf weed spreads rapidly to form dense mats on bare areas of ground.
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Virginia buttonweed (Diodia virginiana)
Virginia buttonweed surfaces in warm weather with sprawling, wide branches.
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Common chickweed (Stellaria media)
The teardrop leaves of this winter weed keep low if they're mowed often enough, but spring up if left unchecked.
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Dallis grass (Paspalum dilatatum)
The source of those unsightly spiked patches in your lawn, dallis grass is a very coarse warm-season perennial.
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Get Those Weeds Under Control!
Weeds are, by simplest definition, plants out of place. They're growing where we want other things - like a nice lawn - to grow.
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Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)
This yellow-topped weed is a familiar lawn nemesis.
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Goosegrass (Eluesine indica)
This summer weed grows flat with its stems forming a small white- or silver-centered rosette.
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Large crabgrass (Digitaria sanguinalis)
The big brother of smooth crabgrass, this weed is just as unappealing, and perhaps a bit more difficult to deal with.
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Prostrate spurge (Euphorbia supina)
This low, broadleaf weed shows up in the summer sporting multiple stems that radiate from a central taproot.
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White clover (Trifolium repens)
White clover is a creeping weed widespread among home lawns.
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Yellow nutsedge (Cyperus esculentus)
A grassy plant with light-green, triangular stems and straw-colored flowers, yellow nutsedge can grow with annoying speed.
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New Ways to Save on Weed Prevention Products
Whether they're dandelions (broadleaf weeds) or crabgrass (grassy weeds), nothing irks lawn and garden lovers like these stubborn sprouters.