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