• Also called "Yellow Woodsorrel".
• Upright, herbacaeous perennial with hairy stems.
• Leaves, alternate, divided into three partly-folded, deeply cut, heart-shaped leaflets.
• Foliage with sour, acrid taste.
• Flowers, bright yellow, with five petals on stalks bents below the fruit and attatched to a common point.
• Fruit is a narrow-angled "okra-like" capsule. 
• Creeping Woodsorrel  has a more prostrate growth habit than yellow woodsorrel; stolons readily root at the nodes.
• All specie reproduce by seed.

• Hand Removal or Hoeing
• Herbicides:

• Preemergence - atrazine*. (Apply in the fall) 
 
* Excellent tolerance on centipede and St. Augustine grass; use only on these grasses.
 
 
• Postemergence - dicamba** with a combination of other products.
 
   - MSMA***


**  See label for appropriate turfgrass.
       Do not use within the root zone of desirable plants, especially dicamba.

***  MSMA  kills centipede and St. Augustine grass; use only on bermuda and zoysia.
 

  Always Read the Label 

Has "okra-like" fruit.

Creeping Woodsorrel