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Is this Lespedeza?

Posted on 12/5/23 at 8:51 am
Posted by TheWiz
Third World, LA
Member since Aug 2007
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 8:51 am
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Posted by Sir Saint
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Member since Jun 2010
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Posted on 12/5/23 at 9:59 am to
No. Others can chime in on what this might be, I'm not sure. Lespedeza is all dead now from recent cold snaps.
Posted by ronk
Member since Jan 2015
6184 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:12 am to
Probably spurge. Lespedeza will have stripes on the leaf so you can look for that.
Posted by TheWiz
Third World, LA
Member since Aug 2007
11675 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:16 am to
This is a hard stemmed weed. Grows straight up. Sometimes it hooks. Sometimes the tops have little tufts.
Posted by TheWiz
Third World, LA
Member since Aug 2007
11675 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:20 am to
I thought I found it one day and it was something that started with a V, but now I can't remember the name
Posted by bayoubengals88
LA
Member since Sep 2007
18906 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:24 am to
Is that the bitch?

Chamber Bitter? Can't tell. Try not to tear it up and photograph it from above.

Does it look like this?

Posted by TheWiz
Third World, LA
Member since Aug 2007
11675 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 10:26 am to
That might be it. I'll look for some in the yard at lunch.
Posted by ronk
Member since Jan 2015
6184 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 12:12 pm to
It could be young chamberbitter. Take a close up picture of it growing in the yard.
Posted by CrawDude
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2019
5264 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 12:35 pm to
quote:

It could be young chamberbitter. Take a close up picture of it growing in the yard.

yeah- this one where it will probably easier to ID from a lawn photo than a close up - usually not what we ask for.
Posted by jmtigers
1826.71 miles from USC
Member since Sep 2003
4970 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 1:27 pm to
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Lespedeza is all dead


Not at my house. I'm starting to think this stuff is impossible to control.

Of course my yard is also greener than it was all summer in the drought.
Posted by TheWiz
Third World, LA
Member since Aug 2007
11675 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 1:35 pm to
Of course I can only find one tiny arse specimen this week. I thought spurge grew out like a spider web?

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Posted by CrawDude
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2019
5264 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 4:36 pm to
I think that is young chamberbitter - I just walked outside and checked a landscape bed where I have a little chamberbitter and a few of the young plants look that that - some of the cool weather has damaged it and turned the stems “reddish”.

You have good eyesight to pick that up in the lawn.
Posted by TheWiz
Third World, LA
Member since Aug 2007
11675 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 4:50 pm to
How do I wax it's arse? It's fairly prevalent in the summer. Not bad. Just annoys me.
Posted by CrawDude
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2019
5264 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 5:20 pm to
quote:

How do I wax it's arse? It's fairly prevalent in the summer. Not bad. Just annoys me.


Clemson has a good fact sheet on control LINK. Atrazine, Trimec herbicide or Weed Free Zone now, or the winter weed cocktail of atrazine + weed free zone - but cold should kill it soon enough. Then an appropriate pre-emergent in Spring, but Prodiamine or Dimension don’t have good efficacy on it. During warm months Celsius for post-emergent control.
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
53866 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 6:33 pm to
One of the most helpful apps I've downloaded is the iNaturalist app. You can take a pic of any plant, bug, fungus, weed, etc. upload it and compare it to their recommendations narrowed down to your location. Other users can agree or make another suggestion. I've used it to identify all sorts of stuff.
Posted by TheWiz
Third World, LA
Member since Aug 2007
11675 posts
Posted on 12/5/23 at 6:37 pm to
Makes sense on the Celsius. Hit the yard around September and then did pre-em around 10/15.
Posted by Sir Saint
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Member since Jun 2010
5323 posts
Posted on 12/6/23 at 10:33 am to
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I'm starting to think this stuff is impossible to control.


MSM turf will nuke it. Whatever you have will die in the winter, so don't worry about it now, but keep in mind for next summer.
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