4 weeds needing ID

17 years ago

Background: I live in Northern Alabama. I have hybrid and common bermuda. I apologize if these have been identified by previous posters - i haven't had a chance to look at everything yet.

Weed 1: Leaves approx. 2 inches long

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Weed 2: roughly 6 inches wide. No matter how many times I pull these things, they come back.

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Weed 3: this is approx 4 inches wide and 4 inches tall, but I have some that are over 1 foot (I think I know what this one is, but I want to confirm)

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Weed 4: (2 pictures) these are about 3 inches tall. They are very hard to pull out of the ground and have a single tap root.

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Any guesses?? Thanks!!

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Comments (5)

janet400
17 years ago
#2 looks like a sasafrass tree seedling.
Beeone
17 years ago
#1 looks like a thistle, maybe sowthistle
#3 resembles marestail
#4 is alfalfa.
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User
17 years ago
# 2 looks like giant ragweed except you stated it comes back. Is it coming back from the roots or is the stem breaking and new shoots coming from break area?
hsvcara
Original Author
17 years ago
maifleur - when I pick them, i get part of the stem that goes underground - but not sure there's ever a real "root" that comes up with it. If i'm not getting the root, it must be pretty far down.

Common ragweed is a personal enemy of mine - maybe I need to go nuclear on its cousin too :(
dharma3
17 years ago
Thank you beeone, I have been trying to figure out what that marestail weed was for 4 days now! I have looked at so many pictures of so many weeds in the past few days I thought I was imagining the dang thing! Mine aren't as small as the OP though mine are about 4ft tall lol