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Common Lawn Weeds
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Carolina Geranium
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- Winter annual broadleaf weed
- Diffusely-branched semi-erect weed.
- Stems are greenish-pink to red, densly hairy.
- Leaves with long petioles, hairy, dissected into various segments, margins blunt toothed.
- Small flowers are pink to purplish with five petals.
- Fruit is a five-parted capsule that forms a "stork's bill" up to 0.5 inch long.
- Reproduces by seed.
Control Methods
- Hand Removal or Hoeing.
- Improve sunlight, fertilization, soil pH.
- Herbicides:
- Preemergence - atrazine*, benefin, pendimethalin.
* Excellent tolerance in centipede and St. Augustine grass.
Tolerance in DORMANT bermuda and zoysia at low label rates. See label for
appropriate turfgrass.
- Postemergence - combination of these products:
[dicamba**, MCPP**, 2,4-D**, and/or 2,4-DP**]
(Apply late fall or winter during warm period above 60 ºF).
** 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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"Stork's bill" capsule fruit.
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