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Summer annual broadleaf weed.
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Sometimes called "Japanese clover" or "common lespedeza".
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Weed of drought-prone sites, compacted dry sites.
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Plants are tough, wiry, dark green resembling clover.
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Looks like barbed wire with small brown stipules at each node.
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Prostrate, spreading growth habit with strong taproot.
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Leaves have three obovate to oblong, smooth leaflets with distinct white
parallel veins.
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Very small, single, pink to purple flowers at each node.
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Reproduces by seed.
Control Methods
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Hand Removal or Hoeing
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Proper watering, mowing height
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Herbicides:
* Excellent toleranace in centipede
and St. Augustine grass. Apply only in spring
after turf
green-up.
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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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Three obovate to oblong,
smooth leaflets.
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