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Common Lawn Weeds
Annual
Lespedeza
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- Summer annual broadleaf weed.
- Sometimes called "Japanese clover" or "common lespedeza".
- Weed of drought-prone sites, compacted dry sites.
- Plants are tough, wiry, dark green resembling clover.
- Looks like barbed wire with small brown stipules at each node.
- Prostrate, spreading growth habit with strong taproot.
- Leaves have three obovate to oblong, smooth leaflets with distinct white parallel veins.
- Very small, single, pink to purple flowers at each node.
- Reproduces by seed.
Control Methods
- Hand Removal or Hoeing
- Proper watering, mowing height
- Herbicides:
* Excellent toleranace in centipede and St. Augustine grass. Apply only in spring
after turf green-up.
- 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
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Three obovate to oblong,
smooth leaflets.
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