Lawn Weeds With Little Blue Flowers

Creeping Charlie ground ivy is a perennial weed that spreads by seed and grows along the ground. Pull weeds by hand or spot-treat with a nonselective postemergence herbicide.

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There is also an annual species which like the perennial type has creeping stems with leaves on opposite sides and small blue or white flowers with only four petals.

Lawn weeds with little blue flowers. It has arrowhead-shaped leaves and flowers resembling small morning glories. It is often confused with spurge however this weed does not produce a milky sap. Flowers appear as a panicle often below mowing height.

Stems and runners are normally soft and pink to brown in colour. Dandelion is possibly the most common lawn weed worldwide. Knotweed forms a tough wiry mat of stems and blue-green leaves with small white flowers.

It commonly invades thin turfgrass stands neglected lawns and newly seeded lawns. Annual bluegrass Poa annua is a common clump-forming grass weed. Tiny blue flowers magnified 3X.

Chickweed Mouse Ear. The leaves grow opposite one another on the square creeping stems that take root at the nodes. Creeping charlie ground ivy produces round or heart-shaped leaves that are bright green and have scalloped edges.

Speedwell is a perennial broadleaf weed of the Veronica species. Flowers cluster along the pink or. Purslanes and Portulaca are a low growing 0 to 200mm high a prostrate to decumbent often flowing succulent annual weed.

Right next to the tiny blue flowers were a bunch of tiny white flowers. Corn speedwell is one of the most prevalent of the weedy Veronica species. A perennial weed field bindweed is one of the lawn weeds that is tough and difficult to eradicate.

Small perennial many-branched weed can reach 1m high but is usually smaller with round green slightly hairy leaves that feel sticky and small green pollen-filled flowers which appear throughout the year but particularly in spring. Dayflowers have dark green leaves sprouting from a stem and brilliant blue flowers through the summer. Knotweed is an annual weed common along sidewalks.

These little curiosities appear in the lawn each spring. They are very common in a variety of soil types especially after having been recently disturbed. Asthma weed pellitory sticky weed Parietaria judaica Description.

It usually thrives in dry compacted soils. Leaves are folded and smaller than many of our regular turfgrass species sometimes appearing as a lighter shade of green. Mulch the garden to prevent weeds or use a preemergence herbicide in spring.

The tiny white flowers seem to be a form of speedwell also with opposite leaves that are jagged or notched. Corn Speedwell Veronica arvensis is a low-growing weed with tiny blue flowers.

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