Common Lawn Weeds

Plantain

  • Perennial summer broadleaf weed.
  • Distinctive rosette of leaves and a slender, fibrous root system.
  • Reproduces by seed
Buckhorn Plantain
  • Leaves narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped, often twisted or curled, with ribbon veins on lower surface.
  • Erect, leafless, hairy stalk terminated by dense, tapered, white to tannish flower spike.
Broadleaf Plaintain
  • Leaves broad, egg-shaped, with several main veins.
  • Erect, leafless stems terminate in dense, flower spikes.


Control Methods

  • Hand Removal or Hoeing
  • Herbicides:
    • Preemergence - NONE
     
     
    • Postemergence - combination of these products:
        • [dicamba**,  MCPP**,  2,4-D**, and/or  2,4-DP**]


    * Use lower rates on centipede and St. Augustine grass; See label.
        Do not use within the root zone of desirable plants, especially dicamba.
     

    ---------------------------  Always Read the Label  ------------------------


Distinctive rosette of leaves.


Buckhorn Plantain seedhead.


Broadleaf Plantain


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