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Also called "Yellow Woodsorrel".
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Upright, herbacaeous perennial with hairy stems.
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Leaves, alternate, divided into three partly-folded, deeply cut, heart-shaped
leaflets.
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Foliage with sour, acrid taste.
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Flowers, bright yellow, with five petals on stalks bents below the fruit
and attatched to a common point.
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Fruit is a narrow-angled "okra-like" capsule.
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Creeping Woodsorrel has a more prostrate growth habit than
yellow woodsorrel; stolons readily root at the nodes.
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All specie reproduce by seed.
Control Methods
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Hand Removal or Hoeing
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Herbicides:
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Preemergence - atrazine*.
(Apply
in the fall)
* Excellent tolerance on centipede
and St. Augustine grass; use only on these grasses.
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Postemergence - dicamba** with
a combination of other products.
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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.
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Read the Label ------------------------
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Has "okra-like" fruit.
Creeping Woodsorrel
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