After putting in the effort to make your lawn appear nice and healthy It’s a shame to watch it disappear when weeds begin to take over the lawn. The weeds are undesirable plants that a large number of lawn owners must face. These invasive plants are able to infest a lawn, especially those that thrive in our humid and warm climate.
Apart from aesthetics, limiting and removing weeds is crucial to ensure the quality and appearance of the lawn. They can take nutrients from grass, plants, and even flowers. If they’re not managed the lawn can get messy, and even more, the flowers and grass might begin to die.
Before you get started eliminating these plants that are out of place or begin to control them, it is important to determine what you’re facing. It’s impossible to effectively remove and control the growth of weeds on your lawn when you don’t know the kind it is. To aid you Here are some of the weeds one might encounter on your Florida lawn.
Bull Thistle – Cirsium vulgare
Bull thistle grows in a biannual manner, that develops into a rosette that has large and fleshy leaves. In the second years, it’s a wooden flowering stalk will produce some rose-purple blooms. It produces smaller blossoms than Canada Thistle but all flowers are fertile.
Quackgrass – Agropyron repens
The blue-green, rough-bladed plant reproduces through seed and rhizomes that are aggressive. Stems that are upright, leaves rolled in buds, sheaths with hairy. Small membranous ligule with a huge, prominently with auricles that clasp. Spike seed head resembling perennial ryegrass. It spreads across lawns and the beds of ornamental plants. It is very difficult to control.
Broadleaf Plantain: Plantago rugelii Plantago major
A perennial rosette that reproduces from seeds. Leaves are huge round and deeply veined, with wavy edges as well as purple petioles. The stems of seeds resemble a rat’s tail and hold small seed and flower buds. The long tap root, which is like Dandelion can increase plant resistance to herbicides and stress.
Crabgrass Digitaria Sp.
Many species are annuals. Early summer is when germination begins to peak. The leaves are yellow green and rolled into the buds with rough edges. texture broad collar, membranous , liguile as well as a hairy outer. Blade flat, with a sharp point. Seed head made up comprised of 3 to 10 fingers like spikes or racemes. could appear as tan or purple in the color. The plant declines following seeding, accompanied by shorter days. It is killed by frost. It is found all across all of the U.S., although less in the North than.
Dandelions – Taraxacum offficnale
Perennial with a long tap root that produces seeds. The stems are short and emerge from a rosette, bearing lobed, oblong leaves. The large yellow flowers develop into round puffballs brimming with seeds that are distributed by the winds that travel across miles. The seeds usually germinate in the late summer.
Goosegrass – Eleusine indica
An annual rosette forming rosette from flat stems, typically with a silvery the center. Leaves are folded over the bud and encased in sheaths with overlaps. Membranous Ligule with sparse hairs on the collar. Seed heads form around ten to two fingers-shaped spikes, like zippers more wide than crabgrass. The seed head germinates earlier than crabgrass. The plant is tolerant of close mowing even on greens for putting.
Nutsedge : Cvperus esculentus (yellow) Cvperus rotundus (purple)
It is also known by the name nutgrass however, it is not a grass. Perennial, reproduces through nuts and seeds on roots. Stems erect triangular. Leaves 3-ranked, narrow, grass-like basal. Seeds on plants that are not mowed placed in narrow spikelets over umbel-like inflorescences. The yellow nutsedge is a single fleshy tubers at the end of roots. Purple nutsedge is a string of tubers that hang on rhizomes with a tangled structure.
Pennywort (Dollarweed) Hydrocotvle sp.
A perennial that grows from tubers, rhizomes and seeds. The leaves are upright with scalloped margins, on an extended petiole that is within the middle of an umbrella-like leaf.They are found in wet and moist areas. Most common in Transition Zone, South.
Spurge: Euphorbia maculate E. supine
An annual for the summer that begins with germination after temperatures of the soil exceed 85 degrees F and lasts throughout the summer. Small oval leaves that range in color from dark green to red, with a brown streak on the upper side. Stems that are reddish in low growth extend away from tap roots and create a thick mat. The milky sap is sticky. Highly productive seed producer, many thousands of seeds from one plant. The plant matures in just a couple of days during hot weather.
Matchweed – Phyla nodiflora
Matchweed is a perennial that forms mats with opposite leaves on branching stems that are hairy. Leaves have tiny teeth at the tip of the leaf. The white to purple flowers appear at the top of the stalk of seeds, giving an appearance resembling a matchhead. Matchweed is spread by seeds and stolons on prostrate stems.
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