Grass Identification - Paging Craw

Might be dove weed. Celsius and Tibute Total I think have activity on it but may take several years of application to get rid of it.

Looks a little thin bladed compared to the Doveweed I get. Mine is also flatter to the ground compared to my turf. It’s the same color. Possible as well that I’ve mislabeled what I get each year in small struggling wet spots.

I’d Celsius it at medium rate and fully expect a second spray 2 weeks later. I can also say that Tenacity is working for me with 2 applications 2 weeks apart.

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Agree with this - mine looks thinner than what I've found on Google image search.

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Yours also looks more upright. Doveweed looks matted to me.

Is it carpet grass? Kinda weird it’d be growing in now.

The color and current temperature would suggest something like bluegrass or POA, but it doesn’t seem to match up to the leaf structure.

Is that growing in a low area or an area that stays wet. It looks like southern watergrass.

I wouldn't say it stays wet, but it's definitely at the end of a runoff area where my backyard slopes to as well as pool / gutter drainage terminates...so, possible that it would be wetter than other areas, if that makes sense.

What will kill it and not harm the common Bermuda that I'm trying to get to takeover?

Thanks.

Hopefully craw chimes because he would see southern watergrass more than I would seeing as I’m in dfw. I’m really towards that and you would have to use glyphosate

Last call for Craw....

Yes I saw the post earlier and I think ronk likely has/had the correct ID. Certainly not Doveweed. Initially I thought it looked like rescue grass but that’s a cool season weed so too early for that. So it could be very well be southern water grass.

Send the photo to Dr. Ron Strahan (rstrahan@agcenter.LSU.edu) weed extension specialist with the LSU AgCenter and see what thinks - he knows more about lawn weed ID than of us. He’s my go to resource if I can’t ID a weed.

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Since his promotion I'm not sure that he answers to weed ID emails any more.

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That’s generally not in the nature of extension professionals to do that (I was one and worked with bunch who also had administrative duties) - but he may have forwarded it to someone to answer and it fell through the cracks.

I’ll reach out to him via my AgCenter email and find out from him who has been given, or hired, to take over his former responsibilities, and share that.