Carpet Like Weeds

Sunny or shady landscape lawn or garden areas appearance.

Carpet like weeds.

The term weed is a subjective one as the old saying goes one person s weed is another s wildflower. Carpetweed is a distinctive weed that as its name suggests spreads rapidly on the ground to form a prostrate mat. 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. The best defense against carpetweed in lawns is a healthy well maintained turf.

Post emergent weed controls fight weeds that have already germinated. Choosing the right weed control product requires understanding the weed you want to fight and its stage of growth. This garden weed has light green leaves that look like clover and cup shape yellow flowers in summer and fall. Irrigate the lawn when there is less than 1 5 inches of rain in a week and fertilize regularly.

To 20 inches tall where it grows. Mulch garden areas in spring to prevent weeds. Carpet grass grows well in wet poorly drained soil. Carpetgrass seed stalks have the ability to rapidly grow to a height of about a foot and bear unattractive seed heads that give the lawn a weedy.

But you can be assured. The term weed is used in a variety of senses generally centering around a plant that is not desired within a certain context. Pre emergent weed controls sometime called preventers work to keep weed seeds from germinating and developing. 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.

Weeds can also be grass like broadleaf or sedge. Carpet grass produces crabgrass like tall seed heads in the summer which gives a weedy appearance. 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. Pull oxalis weeds by hand or spray weeds with a postemergence herbicide in spring or fall.

Here is a handy photo identification page to help you determine the most common weeds that you might find in your gardens. Carpetgrass gets its name from the carpet like mats the grass forms on a lawn where established. Carpetweed is a summer annual weed which grows low to the ground forming a sort of matted carpet like appearance hence their name.