Your best bet: Get it when young. Creeping charlie. You can ID creeping charlie by its rounded, quarter-sized, scalloped leaves. Each of those flowers can mature to produce hundreds or thousands of new seeds that will create baby bindweeds for years to come. Bindweed comes back year after year and can both climb and sprawl enough to eventually cover whole evergreen trees. Wild strawberry. Although related to the tasty strawberries we cherish in June, this weedy relative seeds rampantly, spreads quickly, and puts down roots as it creeps.
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Each product we feature has been independently selected and reviewed by our editorial team. If you make a purchase using the links included, we may earn commission. Save Pin FB More. Don't let these pesky plants crash your garden party! The first step is to know your enemy. Start Slideshow. Tweet Email Send Text Message. Credit: Jacob Fox. Credit: Marty Baldwin. Type: Broadleaf perennial Size: 12 inches tall, 6 - 16 inches wide Where It Grows: Lawns and gardens in sun or shade Appearance: This common lawn weed has a long taproot ; leaves are deeply notched.
Type: Broadleaf perennial Size: To 20 inches tall Where It Grows: Sunny or shady landscape, lawn, or garden areas Appearance: This garden weed has light green leaves that look a little like clover and cup-shape yellow flowers in summer and fall. Type: Grassy annual Size: To 18 inches tall and 20 inches wide Where It Grows: Lawn, landscape, and garden areas in sun or shade Appearance: Crabgrass is exactly what it sounds like: A grassy weed. Type: Broadleaf perennial Size: Climbs 6 feet or more Where It Grows: Landscape and garden areas in sun Appearance: Identify this garden weed by its arrowhead-shape leaves on twining vines.
Type: Broadleaf perennial Size: inches tall, 12 inches wide Where It Grows: Lawn, landscape, and garden areas in sun to partial shade Appearance: White clover has three-lobe leaves and round white flower clusters. Type: Grass-like perennial Size: 2 feet tall, 1 foot wide Where It Grows: Lawn, landscape, or garden areas in sun or shade Appearance: Nutsedge has slender, grassy leaves, triangular stems, and small, nutlike tubers on the root system.
Type: Broadleaf perennial Size: 4 inches tall, several feet wide Where It Grows: Shady lawn, landscape, or garden areas Appearance: Identify this lawn weed and groundcover by its scalloped leaves, creeping stems, and clusters of purple flowers in late spring.
Type: Broadleaf annual Size: To 4 feet tall and 18 inches wide Where It Grows: Landscape and garden areas in sun or shade Appearance: Lamb's-quarter's scalloped, triangular leaves have gray undersides. Credit: Denny Schrock. Type: Broadleaf perennial Size: To 8 inches tall and 12 inches wide Where It Grows: Moist lawn and garden areas in sun or shade Appearance: When you're identifying weeds in your garden, if you spot broad, flat, oval-shape leaves arranged in a low rosette, you've likely found a plantain.
Type: Annual grass relative Size: To 30 inches tall and wide Where It Grows: Sunny or shady landscape areas Appearance: Dayflowers have dark green leaves sprouting from a stem and brilliant blue flowers through the summer. Type: Broadleaf annual Size: To 6 inches tall and 2 feet wide Where it grows: Dry, sunny landscape and garden areas Appearance: Identify this weed groundcover by its fleshy, dark green leaves and small yellow flowers at the ends of the stems.
Type: Broadleaf annual Size: To 6 feet tall and 3 feet wide Where It Grows: Fertile, sunny landscape and garden areas Appearance: Velvetleaf gets its name because of its large, velvety heart-shape leaves up to 10 inches across. Type: Broadleaf perennial Size: 6 inches tall, 6 inches wide Where It Grows: Shady lawn, landscape, or garden areas Appearance: Wild violet is a groundcover with heart-shape leaves and purple flowers in late spring.
Type: Broadleaf annual Size: To 42 inches tall and 30 inches wide Where It Grows: Sunny landscape and garden areas Appearance: Identify garden weeds like smartweed by its lance-shape leaves often marked with purple chevrons. Type: Broadleaf annual Size: To 2 feet tall and wide Where It Grows: Sunny landscape and garden areas Appearance: Quickweed has jagged, hairy leaves and small white daisy-shape flowers in summer.
Type: Broadleaf annual Size: 6 feet tall, 2 feet wide Where it grows: Sunny landscape or garden areas Appearance: Pigweeds are tall plants with a taproot. Type: Broadleaf perennial Size: To 6 feet tall and 3 feet wide Where It Grows: Sunny lawn, landscape, or garden areas Appearance: Canada thistle has spiny, gray-green leaves and purple flowers.
Type: Broadleaf annual Size: To 8 inches tall and 2 feet wide Where It Grows: Sunny or partly shaded lawn, landscape, or garden areas Appearance: Knotweed is an invasive groundcover with blue-green leaves sparsely appearing on long stems. Type: Broadleaf perennial Size: To 10 feet tall and 2 feet wide Where It Grows: Sunny landscape or garden areas Appearance: Identify this garden weed by its light green leaves, clusters of white flowers, and dark purple berries.
Type: Broadleaf perennial Size: To 15 feet tall and wide Where It Grows: Sunny or shady landscape or garden areas Appearance: Poison ivy can be a vine, shrub, or groundcover. Type: Broadleaf annual Size: 2 feet tall, 2 feet wide Where It Grows: Landscape or garden areas with rich soil in sun or shade Appearance: Black nightshade can be a bushy or climbing plant with white or purple flowers and purple or red fruits. Credit: Peter Krumhardt.
Type: Broadleaf annual or short-lived perennial Size: feet tall, 1 foot wide Where It Grows: Poor, dry, soil in full sun Appearance: Identify this garden weed by its clover-type leaves and small, yellow flowers.
Type: Grassy perennial Size: To 3 feet tall and several feet wide Where It Grows: Landscape and garden areas in sun or shade Appearance: This garden weed has wheatlike flower spikes, which appear above slender clumps of grassy foliage. Type: Broadleaf perennial Size: To 4 feet tall and 2 feet wide Where It Grows: Landscape and garden areas in sun or shade Appearance: Dock produces large, wavy-edge leaves and large seed heads covered with brown seeds.
Type: Broadleaf annual Size: To 12 inches tall and wide Where It Grows: Lawn, landscape, and garden areas in sun or shade Appearance: This lawn weed is a low, creeping plant with scallop-edge leaves and purple flowers. Type: Broadleaf annual Size: 2 feet tall and 18 inches wide Where It Grows: Landscape and garden areas in sun to partial shade Appearance: Fleabane has slender leaves attached to an upright, branching stem. Type: Broadleaf perennial Size: To 6 feet tall and 3 feet wide Where It Grows: Garden areas with rich, moist soil Appearance: This garden weed has sawtooth-edge leaves and yellowish flower clusters covered with stinging hairs.
Type: Broadleaf annual Size: 3 inches tall, 18 inches wide Where It Grows: Lawn, landscape, and garden areas with dry soil Appearance: Green or purple-blushed leaves of prostrate spurge form dense mats.
Type: Broadleaf annual Size: 6 inches tall, 12 inches wide Where It Grows: Lawn, garden, and landscape areas with rich, moist soil in sun or shade Appearance: This garden and lawn weed creates lush green mats studded with small, star-shape flowers.
Type: Broadleaf biennial Size: To 6 feet tall and 18 inches wide Where It Grows: Landscape and garden areas in full sun Appearance: Musk thistle has prickly leaves growing off of tall stems topped by heavy 2-inch purple flowers. Type: Broadleaf annual Size: To 4 feet tall and 2 feet wide Where It Grows: Landscape and garden areas in sun or partial shade Appearance: Ragweed has finely cut green leaves that are almost fern-like. Type: Broadleaf annual Size: feet tall, inches wide Where It Grows: Landscape and garden areas Appearance: Identify this garden weed by its lanky branches, clover-like leaves, and fragrant yellow flowers.
Type: Broadleaf biennial or short-lived perennial Size: To 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide Where It Grows: Sunny landscape and garden areas Appearance: Spot yellow salsify by its gray-green leaves.
Clover is not a weed. Julie, all the points you made are correct but let me clarify why in a lawn the majority of people do consider Clover to be a weed. A plant that is not valued where it is growing and is usually of vigorous growth; especially : one that tends to overgrow or choke out more desirable plants 2 : a weedy growth of plants. In the majority of lawns the desirable plants are various grass species, yet there are certain grass species i. Crabgrass, Quackgrass et al that are not desirable.
The same can be said for broadleaf plant which clovers fit within this category. So you see to a homeowner, who puts all of his effort into maintaining a beautiful lawn, which this article is targeted too Clover is a weed. I like clover. There it is a weed. Yes Mark, there are certainly instances where using clover as a ground cover is very desirable.
On a slope that is difficult to maintain or areas that are difficult to keep on a routine maintenance schedule clover is an option as well as other ground covers. But is it the first choice for a manicured lawn? Thanks for sharing all this information about weeds, now we know why they keep coming back what ever we do and mowing the lawn too short I would never have known!
Thanks for sharing! We battle clover and some other weeds every year. At least now I can better identify some of them, and hopefully find a way to get rid of them for good!
Thanks for linking up with Merry Monday! Perhaps one might think of clover as a source of nectar for our endangered bee populations and just enjoy it. I make a terrificc white clover jelly so not all weeds are totally bad. LoL that was the stupidest question, I assume that you mean paint on the pesticide for poison ivy. Is there a home made recipe for poison ivy. Anything that is strong enough to kill the poison ivy, might hurt the tree as well. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment.
Press enter to begin your search. Now check your email to confirm your subscription. There was an error submitting your subscription. Please try again. First Name:. Email Address:. We use this field to detect spam bots. If you fill this in, you will be marked as a spammer. Join the discussion 29 Comments. Joel Thomas says:. Douglas Latham says:. Liz says:. Vickie Spitzengel says:. Seedlings often pop up in garden beds. Thistles Cirsium spp. Bull thistle is a biennial plant that grows in USDA zones 2 through In the first year, it only forms a basal rosette of highly-lobed leaves with large, stiff spines at the midrib and leaf margins.
During the second year, bull thistle grows 2- to 6-foot-tall stems that bear pink-magenta flowers. Bull thistle prefers sunny areas with rich soil, but it will also grow in various other places, including old fields and roadsides. Share this article. Related Articles.
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