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Please Help ID this Grassy Weed (Update: New pics added.)
Posted on 7/23/15 at 10:20 pm
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 on 7/23/15 at 10:36 pm to Marineaux
Looks like reefer ya damn hippie
Posted on 7/23/15 at 10:44 pm to Polar Pop
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 on 7/23/15 at 10:47 pm to Marineaux
I'm not sure what it is, but it's not Bermuda. Looks a bit like Dallis, but probably something else.
Posted on 7/23/15 at 11:02 pm to Marineaux
https://www.turfgrass.ncsu.edu/images/Plants/dallisgrass/web/Dallisgrass_DSC_3080.jpg
Posted on 7/23/15 at 11:06 pm to Marineaux
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:
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 on 7/23/15 at 11:08 pm to AlxTgr
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 on 7/23/15 at 11:09 pm to Marineaux
I'd say torpedo grass, from the Scott's site.
Posted on 7/23/15 at 11:13 pm to MrBobDobalina
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 on 7/23/15 at 11:28 pm to Marineaux
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 on 7/24/15 at 5:40 am to Marineaux
Posted on 7/24/15 at 6:44 am to Deege
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
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 on 7/24/15 at 6:46 am to Deege
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 on 7/24/15 at 6:47 am to cgrand
Without the flower its extremely difficult. Torpedo grass probably. Not dallis or Bermuda definitely.
Posted on 7/24/15 at 6:57 am to Marineaux
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 on 7/24/15 at 7:11 am to bootlegger
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 on 7/24/15 at 7:18 am to Marineaux
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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