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Common Lawn Weeds


Wild Violets

  • Diverse group composed of winter annuals and perennials. 
  • Perenials have spreading or creeping growth habit by rhizomes or stolons.
  • Many with heart shaped leaves on  long petioles, other species with linear leaves or leaves palmately divided.
  • Produces violet or pansy like flowers of many different colors or shades ranging from purple to white to pink to yellow.
  • Some reproduce by seed; others by rhizomes and seed.
Control Methods
  • Hand Removal or Hoeing
  • Herbicides:
    • Preemergence - NONE
     
    • Postemergence - combination of these products: [dicamba*,  2,4-DP*]
        •  
              - glyphosate - none selective control in shaded
                sensitive areas.
                 
    * Use lower rates on centipede and St. Augustine grass. 
        Do not use within the root zone of desirable plants, especially dicamba.

      Always Read the Label 


Bird-foot Violet


Sweet Violet
 
 

 

 

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