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Please Help ID this Grassy Weed (Update: New pics added.)

Posted on 7/23/15 at 10:20 pm
Posted by Marineaux
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Posted on 7/23/15 at 10:20 pm



Thanks for any help you can offer.
This post was edited on 7/24/15 at 4:49 pm
Posted by Polar Pop
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Posted on 7/23/15 at 10:27 pm to
Looks like Bermuda
Posted by WPsportsman
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Posted on 7/23/15 at 10:30 pm to
Bambo?
Posted by Hammertime
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Posted on 7/23/15 at 10:36 pm to
Looks like reefer ya damn hippie
Posted by Marineaux
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Posted on 7/23/15 at 10:44 pm to
Now that I'm Googling images of Bermuda, there are many that look like this weed, so I guess you could be right. I guess I always thought Bermuda was a much thinner, softer grass that was almost puffy. This stuff is very stiff and rigid.
Posted by AlxTgr
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Posted on 7/23/15 at 10:47 pm to
I'm not sure what it is, but it's not Bermuda. Looks a bit like Dallis, but probably something else.
Posted by hogdaddy
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Posted on 7/23/15 at 10:49 pm to
Look like tree onion.
Posted by AlxTgr
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Posted on 7/23/15 at 11:02 pm to
https://www.turfgrass.ncsu.edu/images/Plants/dallisgrass/web/Dallisgrass_DSC_3080.jpg
Posted by MrBobDobalina
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Posted on 7/23/15 at 11:06 pm to
Very hard to tell from just that one section of the plant, take some pictures of a rooted one with the florescence or fruit showing if you can and also, where does it grow?

Location alone can tell you more about it than anything. From that one picture it looks like Big Cordgrass (Spartina cy.) but that plant sticks to saltier or brackish waters for the most part. Also how tall is it growing?

Forgot a picture:

This post was edited on 7/23/15 at 11:09 pm
Posted by Marineaux
Member since Jul 2012
62 posts
Posted on 7/23/15 at 11:08 pm to
Thanks for the help so far. I'll post some more pictures of it tomorrow out in the yard. Maybe that'll help with the positive ID. I looked at the dallisgrass and it doesn't seem to grow out from the center away from the root base like that seems to in the pictures I've seen.
Posted by White Bear
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Posted on 7/23/15 at 11:09 pm to
I'd say torpedo grass, from the Scott's site.
Posted by Marineaux
Member since Jul 2012
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Posted on 7/23/15 at 11:13 pm to
Thanks MrBob. That Big Cordgrass looks quite tall. This stuff I have is encroaching from my neighbors yard. I have centipede grass and the stuff doesn't grow any taller than that over the course of a week or so between cuttings. I would have included a picture of it out in the yard rooted, but I got this idea a little too late in the evening. This is just some I went out there and picked.
Posted by MrBobDobalina
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Posted on 7/23/15 at 11:28 pm to
No worries, Update this with some more pictures of it growing and something to use for scale and someone will pop in and i.d. it.
Posted by Deege
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Posted on 7/24/15 at 5:40 am to
Torpedo Grass

This may help Nola.com article
Posted by cgrand
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Posted on 7/24/15 at 6:44 am to
that is torpedo grass, as noted above
much of it in the area comes from imported fill from the spillway

once it is established in your yard, it's a forever resident unless you start over
Posted by Marineaux
Member since Jul 2012
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Posted on 7/24/15 at 6:46 am to
I'm really hoping it isn't the torpedo grass because it seems like that stuff is hard to get rid of completely, but lots of things are. Here's some more early morning pics.. I can post more in full daylight when I get home if necessary.


Posted by jeffsdad
Member since Mar 2007
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Posted on 7/24/15 at 6:47 am to
Without the flower its extremely difficult. Torpedo grass probably. Not dallis or Bermuda definitely.
Posted by bootlegger
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Posted on 7/24/15 at 6:57 am to
Hate to break it to you, Marineaux, but those bottom pics are definitely Torpedo. Your yard was probably graded with sand, and then sodded. and now the Torpedo is coming through. I'm not sure of the price of the top of my head, but there is a chemical giving great results - Quinclorac. Three treatments, two weeks apart. I'm starting another round of it in the spring.....Torpedograss is the devil of turfgrasses...
This post was edited on 7/24/15 at 6:58 am
Posted by Marineaux
Member since Jul 2012
62 posts
Posted on 7/24/15 at 7:11 am to
Thanks so much for the positive ID folks. At least I kown what it is now and can start down the road to eradication. I have Vantage. Do you think that's worth a shot first bootlegger, or is Quinclorac my best bet? Also, is it safe to use with centipede?
Posted by bootlegger
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Posted on 7/24/15 at 7:18 am to
Let me get to my cabinet and read some labels...
This post was edited on 7/24/15 at 7:27 am
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