- Annual or short-loved perennial with reclining or climbing stems.
- Leaves are alternate, compound with three to nine pairs of leaflets.
- Leaflet at the tip modified into a simple or branched tendril which enables plant to climb.
- Leaflets are very narrowly elliptic to oval, usually longer than broad.
- One to two blue, pale lavendar to purple flowers in leaf axils.
- Produces a stalkless fruit or short-stalked, flat pod with six to twelve seeds.
- Reproduces by seed.
- Found in turf, pastures, moist to wet woods, waste areas, and fields.
Control Methods
- Hand Removal or Hoeing
- Herbicides:
- Preemergence - atrazine*, simazine*.
(Apply in the spring after green-up)
* Excellent tolerance in centipede and St. Augustine grass only.
- Postemergence - combination of these products:
[dicamba**, MCPP**, 2,4-D**, and/or 2,4-DP**]
(Apply in spring/early summer to small weeds).
** Use lower rates on centipede and St. Augustine grass.
Do not use within the root zone of desirable plants, especially dicamba.
See label for appropriate grasses.
Always Read the Label
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Small levendar flowers on a stem
of many thin leaflets.
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