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Types of Lawn Weeds

Broadleaf Plantain
Broadleaf Plantain

Broadleaf Plantain Lawn Weed ID and Control Tips. How to identify and manage broadleaf plantain Plantago major (also called "common plantain"). Weed photos are included to help with weed id. Plantain is a very common lawn weed -- almost as common as dandelions -- and is found throughout the United States.

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Common Daisy
Common Daisy

Learn how to identify and remove common weeds ... Learn how to identify and remove common weeds that may be taking over your lawn ... Dig them out using a daisy ...

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Common Dandelion
Common Dandelion

A common weed, often found on nutrient-rich soil, white clover has small, three-lobed leaves and white or sometimes pinkish flowers. It is a perennial weed and spreads by runners that can quickly smother the lawn; lift these with a rake, then mow.

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Creeping Buttercup
Creeping Buttercup

Controlling buttercup weeds is important in livestock areas, where the plant is toxic, but also in the home garden unless you like a tumble of interlocked foliage covering up your chosen specimens. Buttercup Weed Information. Creeping buttercup is in the Ranunculus family and known for its lovely flowers.

Creeping Thistle
Creeping Thistle

Ground Ivy Glechoma hederacea L. or Creeping Charlie is an aggressive lawn weed that is difficult to control when established in lawns. Its creeping stems will root at the nodes, forming new plants.

Dandelion
Dandelion

Dandelion is a good example of a Weed Plant that you can go after in the fall. It is much easier to attack the deep-rooted weed in a lawn made wet by the rain and overnight dew. If you wait until spring, it becomes much trickier to get to the weed without hurting your lawn, too.

Ground-ivy
Ground-ivy

This annoying weed is also known as ground ivy, Creeping Jenny, Ground-Over-the-Gill and probably a few more that I've forgotten. It is Glechoma hederacea, a perennial with square, running stems or stolons, that produce clusters of leaves at the nodes. More importantly, it can also root at each of these clusters.

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Heal-all
Heal-all

Self Heal Weed Control. Self heal is also referred to as healall, carpenter’s weed, wild sage or just prunella weed. but whatever you call it, the fact remains that it thrives in grassy areas and is most certainly the bane of the obsessive lawn manicurist. Managing self heal plants, or rather eradicating them, is a difficult task.

Rumex Acetosella
Rumex Acetosella

Red sorrel (Rumex acetosella) research and weed control advice at the WinLAWN Lawn Care Guide. Research lawn weeds and turf care topics.

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Slender Speedwell
Slender Speedwell

Slender Speedwell [Veronica filiformis] General Information: Slender Speedwell is a perennial weed and is becoming more of a problem on lawns in throughout the UK. They spread by both underground and over ground runners.

Stinking Willie
Stinking Willie

State noxious weed lists for 46 states. State agriculture or natural resource departments. Cal-IPC: California Invasive Plant Council. 2006. California Invasive Plant Inventory. Cal-IPC Publication 2006-02 (1 February 2007). California Invasive Plant Council. Berkeley, California. SWSS: Southern Weed Science Society. 1998. Weeds of the United States and Canada.

White Clover
White Clover

White clover is a perennial weed that grows low to the ground. While it can grow in many different places, it is typically found in lawns, especially sparse lawns where the competition from grass is weak. The leaves on white clover grow in sets of 3 leaflets.

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