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Common Lawn Weeds


Clover

  • Broadleaf weed.
  • All have leaves with three leaflets.
  • All reproduce by seed.
White Clover
  • Low growing perennial with creeping stems that root at the nodes.
  • Stems are smooth to sparsely covered with hairs.
  • Leaflets are elliptic to oval shaped with small marginal teeth.
  • Flowers are white, often with pink tinge, arranged in round heads.
Large Hop Clover
  • Winter annual with prostrate, hairy branched stems.
  • Leaflets are serrated from mid-blade to tip.
  • Numerous bright yellow flowers (20-30) in loose clusters on long stalks attatched at leaf axils.
  • May be confused with Small Hop Clover.
Small Hop Clover
  • Prostrate, freely-branched winter annual with hairy, reddish colored stems.
  • Leaflets with prominent veins; the terminal leaflet with a short stalk.
  • Flowers, 3 to 15, bright  yellow, in heads.
  • Similiar to Large Hop Clover but with smaller leaves and flower heads.
Spotted Burclover
  • Winter annual with smooth, prostrate stems.
  • Leaflets are wedge-shaped, as long as broad, and toothed from mid-blade to tip.
  • Leaflets have a conspicuos reddish-purple spot in the center.
  • Small, bright yellow flowers (2 to 5) borne in cluster.
Control Methods
  • Hand Removal or Hoeing
  • Herbicides:
    • Preemergence - atrazine*, simazine*
       
    * Excellent tolerance in centipede and St. Augustine grass. 
       Tolerance in DORMANT  bermuda and zoysia at low label rates.
       
       
    • 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 

White Clover


Large Hop Clover


Small Hop Clover


Spotted Burclover
 
 
 

 

 

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