Sunny or shady landscape lawn or garden areas appearance.
Carpet type weeds.
Carpetweed is a summer annual with a short tap root.
The best defense against carpetweed in lawns is a healthy well maintained turf.
Here is a handy photo identification page to help you determine the most common weeds that you might find in your gardens.
This garden weed has light green leaves that look like clover and cup shape yellow flowers in summer and fall.
The term weed is a subjective one as the old saying goes one person s weed is another s wildflower.
Seeds lie dormant over the winter then sprout slowly in the spring.
It does best in damp sandy soil and is traditionally found in tropical climates.
Veins in the leaves are often net like.
Although it withstands high foot and pet traffic it is not drought tolerant and can be invasive.
As their name suggests they have broad leaves that are wide and flat and set up on a stem much like a flower.
Carpet grass is a warm season perennial grass that grows well in areas where other types of grass will not grow.
But you can be assured.
Carpet grass can crowd out bermuda grass and weeds.
Pull oxalis weeds by hand or spray weeds with a postemergence herbicide in spring or fall.
Once the seeds have sprouted however it grows rapidly in the summer heat.
Broadleaf weeds are some of the most common and those with which we are most familiar.
To 20 inches tall where it grows.
Irrigate the lawn when there is less than 1 5 inches of rain in a week and fertilize regularly.
Some examples are dandelions ground ivy white clover chick weed carpet weed and violets.
