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Upcoming Events:
  • Subject: New Leaf Program
    Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
    Location: Alexander City Senior Activity Center(Charles E. Bailey Sportplex), 1685 Arena Road, Alex City, AL
    Calendar: ACES Human Nutrition Diet & Health
    02/13 - New Leaf Program
  • Subject: County 4-H Public Speaking and Baked Foods Contest
    Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    Location: 125 N Broadnax St Dadeville Al - Courthouse
    Calendar: ACES 4-H & Youth Development
    02/16 - County 4-H Public Speaking and Baked Foods Contest
  • Subject: Pasture / Hayfield Improvement Series
    Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    Location: 1st Baptist Church, Dadeville Alabama
    Calendar: ACES Animal Science & Forages
    Event Website
    02/16 - Pasture / Hayfield Improvement Series
  • Subject: New Leaf Program
    Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
    Location: Alexander City Senior Activity Center(Charles E. Bailey Sportplex), 1685 Arena Road, Alex City, AL
    Calendar: ACES Human Nutrition Diet & Health
    02/20 - New Leaf Program
  • Subject: Pasture / Hayfield Improvement Series
    Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    Location: 1st Baptist Church, Dadeville Alabama
    Calendar: ACES Animal Science & Forages
    Event Website
    02/23 - Pasture / Hayfield Improvement Series
  • Subject: New Leaf Program
    Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
    Location: Alexander City Senior Activity Center(Charles E. Bailey Sportplex), 1685 Arena Road, Alex City, AL
    Calendar: ACES Human Nutrition Diet & Health
    02/27 - New Leaf Program
  • Subject: New Leaf Program
    Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
    Location: Alexander City Senior Activity Center(Charles E. Bailey Sportplex), 1685 Arena Road, Alex City, AL
    Calendar: ACES Human Nutrition Diet & Health
    03/05 - New Leaf Program
  • Subject: New Leaf Program
    Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
    Location: Alexander City Senior Activity Center(Charles E. Bailey Sportplex), 1685 Arena Road, Alex City, AL
    Calendar: ACES Human Nutrition Diet & Health
    03/12 - New Leaf Program
  • Subject: New Leaf Program Graduation
    Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
    Location: Alexander City Senior Activity Center(Charles E. Bailey Sportplex), 1685 Arena Road, Alex City, AL
    Calendar: ACES Human Nutrition Diet & Health
    03/19 - New Leaf Program Graduation
  • Subject: Alabama BCIA Sponsored Cattlemen's College #3
    Time: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
    Location: 700 Monroe Street SW, Huntsville, AL 35801
    Calendar: ACES Animal Science & Forages
    Event Website
    03/31 - Alabama BCIA Sponsored Cattlemen's College #3



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Common Lawn Weeds


Annual
Lespedeza

  • 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:
    • Preemergence - atrazine*
     
    * 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

Three obovate to oblong,
smooth leaflets.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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