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Perennial summer broadleaf weed.
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Distinctive rosette of leaves and a slender, fibrous root system.
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Reproduces by seed
Buckhorn Plantain
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Leaves narrowly elliptic to lance-shaped, often twisted or curled, with
ribbon veins on lower surface.
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Erect, leafless, hairy stalk terminated by dense, tapered, white to tannish
flower spike.
Broadleaf Plaintain
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Leaves broad, egg-shaped, with several main veins.
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Erect, leafless stems terminate in dense, flower spikes.
Control Methods
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Hand Removal or Hoeing
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Herbicides:
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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; See label.
Do not use
within the root zone of desirable plants, especially dicamba.
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Distinctive rosette of leaves.
Buckhorn Plantain seedhead.
Broadleaf Plantain
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