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Annual or short-loved perennial with reclining or climbing stems.
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Leaves are alternate, compound with three to nine pairs of leaflets.
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Leaflet at the tip modified into a simple or branched tendril which enables
plant to climb.
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Leaflets are very narrowly elliptic to oval, usually longer than broad.
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One to two blue, pale lavendar to purple flowers in leaf axils.
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Produces a stalkless fruit or short-stalked, flat pod with six to twelve
seeds.
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Reproduces by seed.
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Found in turf, pastures, moist to wet woods, waste areas, and fields.
Control Methods
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Hand Removal or Hoeing
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Herbicides:
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Preemergence - atrazine*,
simazine*.
(Apply in the spring after green-up)
* Excellent tolerance in centipede
and St. Augustine grass only.
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Postemergence - combination of these products:
[dicamba**,
MCPP**, 2,4-D**,
and/or 2,4-DP**]
(Apply in spring/early summer to small weeds).
** Use
lower rates on centipede and St. Augustine grass.
Do not use within the root zone of desirable plants, especially dicamba.
See
label for appropriate grasses.
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Small levendar flowers on a stem
of many thin leaflets.
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