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W EED ID EN T IFI CAT I O N G UI DE BRO A DLE A F W E E DS G RAS SES & S ED G E S Carpetgrass • Mat-forming perennial • Smooth leaf blades w/ rounded tips • Hairs on leaf base • Southeastern US (especially in Centipedegrass) Green Kyllinga Carolina False Dandelion • Mat-forming perennial sedge • Winter annual or biennial • Dark green leaves and stems, up to 6" in height • Erect, branched pale green stems with bright yellow flowers • Seedhead starts pale green but turns brown • Sharply-pointed leaves with deeply-lobed margins • 3 short leaves just below seedhead • Southeastern US, north to PA and west to KS and TX • Southern US Clumpy Rye Yellow Nutsedge •Low-growing winter annual or perennial • Erect, perennial sedge •Tufted, hairless grass without stolons or rhizomes • Light green, smooth, grass-like leaves with pointed tips, arranged in sets of 3 •Dark green leaves • Leaves lack collars, ligules and auricles - Upper surface – prominent parallel veins • Reproduce by single tubers grown from rhizomes - Lower surface – smooth and glossy •Throughout US including HI, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands • Can grow up to 3' high • Throughout US Purple Nutsedge Large Crabgrass • Summer annual • Leaf blades longer than 2", usually hairy • Erect perennial sedge Creeping Beggarweed Broadleaf Plantain • Large, taprooted perennial • Perennial herb • Long, multi-branched, hairy runners rooting at nodes • Distinctive basal rosette of leaves and fibrous root system • Elliptical-shaped, pointy-tipped, trifoliate leaves of varying sizes • Egg-shaped leaves with parallel main veins • Throughout FL and southern TX • Throughout US, excluding Northeast Carolina Geranium Dichondra • Winter annual or biennial Prostrate Knotweed • Mat-forming, summer annual • Semi-erect, 8"-28" tall • Creeping, prostrate perennial • Greenish-pink to red, densely hairy stems • Roots at the nodes • Smooth, blue-green leaves, oblong to linear shaped • Light, pale green leaves are round to kidney-shaped • Alternating leaves joined to stem by sheathing membrane • Moist turf and woods from VA to TX • Flowers from late spring until frost • Round to oval, hairy leaves, with blunt-toothed margins • Throughout US, including HI • Throughout US Carpetweed Dogfennel Purple Cudweed • Dark green, smooth, grass-like leaves with rounded tips, arranged in sets of 3 • Prostrate summer annual • Tall-growing, short-lived perennial • Smooth, light green, spoon-shaped leaves • Upright summer or winter annual (cooler climates) • Leaves lack collars, ligules and auricles • Leaves are arranged in whorls of 5-6 per node • Feathery leaves are deeply dissected, with hair-like linear segments • Also a biennial (warmer climates) • Lower leaves are opposite, while upper leaves alternate • Spike-like flowers bloom from Apr – Oct • Germinates in early spring • Reproduce by chains of tubers grown from rhizomes • Throughout US, except FL • Can grow to around 1' high • Southeastern & Western States, CA, OR and some Midwest & Mid-Atlantic states • Tiny, white flower clusters of 2-5, mid-summer through early fall • Develops from a basal rosette of leaves • Upper leaf surface covered with woolly, white hairs • Throughout US • From MA, south to FL and west to TX and AR Cat’s-ear Dandelion Dollarweed Common Purslane •Perennial • Summer perennial with several species • Prostrate, mat-forming summer annual • Multiple yellow upright flowers resemble Dandelions • Shiny, bright green leaves, approximately 1" in diameter • Alternating or nearly opposite leaves • Leaves are toothed and edges slightly pointed • Leaves are round with scalloped margins • Eastern seaboard, west to MS • Warm-season states like FL and TX • Throughout US Poa annua Dallisgrass • Small, clumped, winter annual • Warm-season clumpy perennial • Tall, pointed, membranous ligule • Flat, wide leaves with fine hairs • aka Caterpillar Grass • Southeastern US, north to mid-Atlantic states and west to TN Doveweed • Smooth, yellow-green leaf blades with keeled or boat-shaped tips • Leaf sheath is smooth, compressed and keeled • aka Annual Bluegrass • Throughout US in excessively wet, compacted soils Rescuegrass • Summer annual, but germinates later in the season • Cool-season perennial bunchgrass • Narrow, lance-shaped leaves with short sheaths • Flat leaf blades, up to 1' long • Leaf stems root at nodes • Grows 2'-4' high • Southern US • Summer annual • Flattened stems radiating from white/gray center • Smooth leaves folded in bud • Short-toothed, membranous ligule at leaf base • Temperate and warm regions of US Gophertail Lovegrass • Erect summer annual • Smooth leaves with rolled vernation • Hairs on upper margins of leaf sheaths • NJ, south to FL and west to TX Florida Betony Chamberbitter • Upright perennial herb • Warm-season annual • Smooth or hairy • 2 rows of leaves arranged oppositely on branchlets • Lance-shaped leaves with rounded margins arranged oppositely along stem • Leaves are thin, with smooth margins • Freely-branched from slender underground stems with segmented tubers • aka Gripeweed, Little Mimosa • Southern US from FL to TX, also in the tropics • Southeastern US Goosegrass • aka Pennywort • Native to FL, now north to VA and west to TX American Burnweed • Robust summer annual • Flat, hairy to almost smooth leaf blades • Creeping stems root at nodes • Short rhizomes can form a clump • Compound leaves divided into 3 leaflets • Alternating, oval-shaped leaves, slightly rough with hairy margins • aka Bull Paspalum • White band may encircle leaflet base • Throughout US, primarily along eastern corridor • Throughout US, including HI Tropical Signalgrass Common Chickweed Lawn Burweed • Warm-season perennial • Mat-forming winter annual • Trailing, creeping stems root at nodes • Short-lived perennial in temperate regions • Low-growing, freely-branched winter annual • Flat, hairy leaf blades and sheaths • Shiny green, alternating, egg-shaped leaves • Propagated by seeds and stolons - Upper leaves – without petiole • FL, GA, HI, Puerto Rico and MD - Lower leaves – long, hairy petiole • Spiraling, alternating, elliptic-to lance-shaped leaves • Flowers late spring through fall • Yellow to orange-yellow flowers with 5 tiny teeth on petal edges • aka Fireweed • Eastern, Central and Southern US • Flowering stalks branch from top of plant • PA, south to FL and west to LA • Throughout US, including HI and AK • Freely-branched summer annual legume • 3 oblong to egg-shaped leaves with short spur at tips • Leaves have prominent midveins with parallel veins • PA, south to FL and west to TX and KS Black Medic • Taprooted summer annual, also a winter annual or biennial • Dark green leaves with three leaflets on long petioles • Commonly found in unmaintained turf • Throughout US, including HI • Broken stems have a “milky” sap • Southeastern, Northeastern and Midwestern US • Eastern US, west to ND and TX, and into CA and OR • aka Prostrate Spurge Shiny Cudweed • Erect summer or winter annual or biennial • Prominent rosette of basal leaves - Upper surface – bright, shiny green - Lower surface – dense white hair • Coastal Plain and Piedmont regions of Southeastern US states, west to TX • Throughout Southeastern US, north to NY, west to KS and TX, also OR Mouse-ear Chickweed Virginia Buttonweed • Winter perennial • Mat-forming perennial herb • Alternating, oblong leaves covered with hair • Shiny, dark green leaves, elliptic to lance-shaped • Prostrate overall, with several upright stems • Leaves joined across stem by lightly hairy membrane • White flowers containing 5 petals with notched ends • White tubular flowers at each leaf axil • Throughout US Annual Lespedeza • SC, south to FL and west to AL • Germinates in spring • Leaves are twice divided into narrow lobes • Flowers change to white puff balls containing seeds • Flowers mid-through late-summer • White, tubular, clustered flowers at branch tips • Leaves alternate with sparse hair • Single yellow flower at end of each hollow stem • Hairy leaves are opposite, with differentiating base and teeth on margins • Freely-branched, prostrate, mat-forming stems • Branched, densely hairy stems • Deep taprooted, stemless perennial • Erect, hairy, branched stems • Taprooted summer annual • Low-growing perennial • Warm-season annual • Taprooted, warm-season annual • Taprooted summer annual • Warm-season perennial Dandelion Garden Spurge Spotted Spurge White Clover Asiatic Hawksbeard • Throughout US, common in Northwest, less so in Pacific Northwest Florida Pusley Thin Paspalum • Throughout US • Spoon-shaped leaves rounded at tip, narrowed at base Corn Speedwell • Throughout Southeastern US, north to NJ, and west to MO Yellow Woodsorrel Bracted Plantain • Low-growing winter annual • Two levels of leaves • Taprooted winter annual -Lower leaves – rounded with toothed margins • Long, dark green, grass-like leaves are hairy to smooth - Upper leaves – smaller and more linear • Throughout US and HI, not as common in the Northeast and Southwest • Throughout the US, excluding the Rocky Mountain region • Herbaceous perennial • Found in warmer climates, as an annual in cooler areas • Alternating, green to yellow-green leaves • Leaves divided into 3 heart-shaped, partly-folded lobes • Eastern and Central US Revolver ® ALWAYS READ AND FOLLOW LABEL INSTRUCTIONS Bayer CropScience LP, 2 TW Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709. 1-800-331-2867. www.BackedByBayer.com. 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