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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