re: What weed is this and how to rid it?

There is a perfect dampness you can sorta feel out after it has rained and dried just the right amount that the roots will be willing to give up and come out all at once. Otherwise they'll force you to just sever the grass where you grab.

I've had a lot of luck clearing my yard little bit at a time every day by waiting on the right pulling conditions.

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I don’t know why most everyone on this board thinks you can’t kill Dallis grass or Crabgrass with an over the counter chemical. We all use Celsius on stuff like that over here in the Mobile area and it kills it. Yes I know the label says it only suppresses it, but the stuff never has come back in my yard or my immediate neighbors next door or across the street. Sprayed that Celsius on my dozen or so clumps of Dallis Grass every other week for 3 weeks and it did not grow back and that was 2-3 years ago.

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Then you are one lucky SOB. Cause I’ve sprayed the dallisgrass in my yard repeatedly with Celsius and all it ever did was turn it different colors. Never killed it. The only thing that’s been working for me is spot spraying it with a strong glyphosate concentration.

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If it’s not enough to kill centipede, it’s not enough to tickle Dallisgrass. Regardless, the OPs patches of dallisgrass are so large that there is no grass growing there to kill anyway. Nuke it and resod.

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Wonder why it killed about a dozen mounds of what I call Dallis Grass then? It killed the hell out of some crabgrass he had in the back. There is another kind of grass weed that it killed within days. I call it Johnson grass. Two sprayings on those Dallis mounds and it killed that stuff dead. Agree about nuking the stuff if nothing else works. For some reason the Celsius I use kills the hell out of what the OP showed in his picture. It’s only supposed to suppress it but it’s completely rid my yard of that Dallis 2-3 years ago. We never had serious weed issues in my neighborhood until after Hurricane Sally blew through here. Now the whole neighborhood is spraying everything known to science on their yards and there are still people struggling with controlling the difficult weeds and for some reason there are massive die offs of centipede. I didn’t think you could kill centipede unless you sodded it in a shady area or somewhere with extremely high traffic.