Carpet Like Weeds

Here is a handy photo identification page to help you determine the most common weeds that you might find in your gardens.

Carpet like weeds.

The term weed is a subjective one as the old saying goes one person s weed is another s wildflower. It is low maintenance and. Choosing the right weed control product requires understanding the weed you want to fight and its stage of growth. Carpetgrass gets its name from the carpet like mats the grass forms on a lawn where established.

But you can be assured. Carpetweed is a summer annual weed which grows low to the ground forming a sort of matted carpet like appearance hence their name. Weeds with tap roots like dandelions or have a basal rosette leaves clustered close to the ground like plantain are easier to pull than weeds such as bermudagrass wiregrass or creeping charlie ground ivy that spread with stolons or creeping stems that root along the ground. Post emergent weed controls fight weeds that have already germinated.

Carpetweed seeds germinate later than most other summer weeds and as a result they can fall under the radar when treating your lawn depending upon the timing of the treatment. Weeds can also be grass like broadleaf or sedge. The term weed is used in a variety of senses generally centering around a plant that is not desired within a certain context. Mollugo verticillata is in the carpetweed family molluginaceae previously included in the larger family aizoaceae a group of tropical and subtropical herbaceous plants and dwarf shrubs with fleshy or succulents leaves primarily in southern africa.

The best defense against carpetweed in lawns is a healthy well maintained turf. Pre emergent weed controls sometime called preventers work to keep weed seeds from germinating and developing. Carpetweed is a distinctive weed that as its name suggests spreads rapidly on the ground to form a prostrate mat. Sunny or shady landscape lawn or garden areas appearance.

It produces unsightly weeds that resemble crabgrass and the lawn can appear coarse and unmown. To 20 inches tall where it grows. Pull oxalis weeds by hand or spray weeds with a postemergence herbicide in spring or fall. Choose a type of lawn grass that grows well in your area and maintain it according to the needs of the specific type of grass.

Mulch garden areas in spring to prevent weeds. Carpet grass grows well in wet poorly drained soil. Irrigate the lawn when there is less than 1 5 inches of rain in a week and fertilize regularly.