Common Lawn Weeds — Dandelion

* Perennial broadleaf weed.
* Deeply taprooted, stemless.
* Leaves, basal, slightly to deeply cut, with lobes that point back towards base.
* Single yellow flowers at end of each long, smooth hollow stalk.
* Seed are brown, long stalked with parachute of hairs forming a “globe.”
* Reproduces by seed and can form new plants from fragments of broken taproots.

Control Methods

* Hand Removal or Hoeing
* Herbicides:
o Preemergence - atrazine*

* Excellent tolerance in centipede and St. Augustine grass.
Tolerance in DORMANT bermuda and zoysia at low label rates. See label for appropriate
turfgrass.

o Postemergence - combination of these products:
[dicamba**, MCPP**, 2,4-D**, and/or 2,4-DP**]

** Use lower rates on centipede and St. Augustine grass.
Do not use within the root zone of desirable plants, especially dicamba.
Always Read the Label

Common Lawn Weeds — Purple Deadnettle

* Winter annual broadleaf weed.
* Sparsely-hairy weed with greenish to purplish, tender, four-sided stems.
* Leaves are opposite, broadly egg-shaped with bluntly toothed margins.
* Lower leaves on long petioles, upper leaves on short petioles (as opposed to no petioles on upper leaves of henbit).
* Leaves often reddish or purplish tinged.
* Flowers are reddish purple with darker coloring in spots on lower petal; arranged in whorls.
* Reproduces by seed.

Control Methods

* Hand Removal or Hoeing
* Herbicides:
o Preemergence - atrazine*, benefin, pendimethalin, oryzalin, isoxaben.
(Apply in early fall).
* Excellent tolerance in centipede and St. Augustine grass.

o Postemergence - combination of these products:
[dicamba**, MCPP**, 2,4-D**, and/or 2,4-DP**]
(Apply in the fall or early winter to small weeds, but before blooming).

** Use lower rates on centipede and St. Augustine grass.
Do not use within the root zone of desirable plants, especially dicamba.
Always Read the Label