Landscape Management, Weed Watch 2014
WEEDWATCH STANDING SENTINEL TO PROTECT PLANT HEALTH THREEFLOWER DWARF BEGGARWEED Desmodium tri orum For more information regarding these and other turf weeds and related control technologies and tips please visit www DowProvesIt com or call 800 255 3726 BROUGHT TO YOU BY LANDSCAPEMANAGEMENT NET DECEMBER 2012 38 PHOTOS DR FRED YELVERTON FAR LEFT FOREST KIM STARR STARRENVIRONMENTAL COM Recommended Dow AgroSciences solution Accord XRT II Recommended Dow AgroSciences solution Confront specialty herbicide ers are pink to rose color It can propagate through seed stolons or broken taproot CONTROL TIPS To minimize the establishment and spread of both Desmodium species maintain a lush lawn with proper mow height fertility and water management Repeat applications either pre or postbloom of a product containing triclopyr and clopyralid are recommended IDENTIFICATION TIPS This perennial grows from bulblets that emit a strong garlic or onion smell when crushed Its seedlings resemble those of a grass but have hollow round leaves that grow from a bulb The only stems that occur are lowering stems slender solid waxy and unbranched Small greenish white lowers grow from the tops of the lowering stems Smaller bulblets and brous roots may form at the base of the bulbs CONTROL TIPS Wild garlic is dif cult to eradicate because several bulblets will sprout and grow at different times from the same plant In actively growing turf areas sequential applications of two or three way herbicides containing 24 D applied in the winter and very early spring will provide control Additional treatments the following year may be needed In completely dormant bermudagrass or in noncrop areas a glyphosate product can provide control when applied twice in the winter months IDENTIFICATION TIPS This perennial has leaves with three small heart shaped lealets It propagates through seeds and stolons The prostrate hairy stems root at nodes It lowers in warm months Flowers are blue or purplish pink Its close relative creeping beggarweed Desmodium canuum has leaves with three lealets that vary in size and are elliptic pointed at the tip and rounded at base Canuum also has hairy stems ascending to erect Flow WILD GARLIC Allium vineale
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