GROWING MONTHS

Barnyardgrass: Summer annual which has tillers which lie flat and form secondary roots resulting in a mat formation, found in moist soils.

      4 5 6 7 8

Bedstraw/Catchweed: Winter annual. The leaves are in whorls containing 6-8 leaves around square stems. Spines at the base of leaves allow bedstraw to cling to objects.

1 2 3                11 12

Black medic: Annual, occurs where lack of good turf. Leaves in groups of 3 have prominent veins, center leaf on stalk. Use post-emergent when growing.

  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Broadleaf plantain: Low growing rosette with large round tapered leaves, perennial, appears in damp shaded soils. Treat in fall.

  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Buckhorn plantain: Tall stalks with foxtails at tip, growing from a rosette of elliptical leaves. Treat in fall, early summer.

    3 4 5 6 7 8 

Carpetweed: Summer annual with smooth prostrate branching stems forming circular mats. The flowers are white, contain five petals.

  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 

Chickory: Perennial, long coarse margin, nearly naked stem. Treat in spring or early summer.

  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Chickweed, Common: Cool season annual, disappears in heat. Leaves broad smooth oval. Use post-emergent when growing.

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Chickweed, Mouseear: Cool season annual, disappears in heat. Leaves hairy, long, and narrow. Use post-emergent when growing.

  2 3 4 5 

Clover, Hop: Leaves are shiny green in groups of 3, yellow blossoms, found in thin turf areas. Use post-emergent.

      4 5 6

Clover, Red/Crimsom: Cool season perennial, 3 dark green leaflets, and reddish blossoms. Use post-emergent when growing in fall.

1 2 3           9 10 11 12

Clover, White: Cool season perennial, 3 dark green leaflets, and white blossoms. Use post-emergent when growing in fall.

1 2 3           9 10 11 12

Common mullein: Erect biennial mostly found in pastures and along roadsides, but will invade landscape beds. Grey hair covers its leaves, five-petaled white or yellow flowers.

1 2 3 4

Corn speedwell: Winter annual. Low growing, turns upright as matures, heart shape seedpods along stem. Treat early spring.

1 2 3 

Crabgrass: Summer annual that germinates when soil reaches a consistent 55 degrees F and is generally killed at the first frost. It will root at the nodes.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 

Creeping beggarweed: Pea-like leaflets, creeps along ground, perennial, found in sandy soils, Bahia or St. Augustine. Treat in spring or early summer.

      4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Curly dock: Most active when turf is dry and heat-stressed, low growing rosette with one long stem, lance shaped leaves. Treat late spring.

      4 5 6 7 

Daisy, Oxeye: The stems grow erect, initially forms a rosette, has white flowers June - August.

  2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Dallisgrass: Warm season coarse perennial is light green, highly invasive, germinates in soil of 60 F and in hot humid conditions. Leaves are rolled in the bud.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Dandelion: Perennial, leafless stems with yellow flower, prostrate rosette on ground. Treat in spring or fall.

      4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

Day flower: An annual with multiple branches that spreads by taking root from nodes. Flowers have three blue petals, two of which are partly fused.

    3 4 5 6

Deadnettle, purple/red: Winter annual often confused with henbit. The leaves are triangular shaped.

1 2               10 11 12

Dodder: An annual plant of thin thread-like orange stems. It has no leaves and must extract carbohydrates from the host plant.

    3 4 5 6 7 8

Dog fennel: A short-lived summer perennial. The leaves are thread-like fern segments. The leaves will omit a foul odor. Flowers are small and white.

  2 3 4 

Dollarweed/Pennywort: Summar perennial. Leaves are dark green, glossy, and round. Has a flower of 5 white petals.

    3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Field bindweed/Morning glory: A summer perennial (morning glory) has arrow shaped leaves on long creeping stems, extensive root system extends 15 feet underground.

      4 5 6 7 8

Geranium: Semi-erect winter annual, leaves on long petioles divided into segmented leaflets and blunt toothed.

1 2 3 4

Goosegrass: Prostrate-growing summer annual with hairy silver color at base.

  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Ground ivy: Creeping stems, upright stems have blue-violet flowers, cool-season perennial, nearly round, toothed leaves. Post-emergent in spring.

  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Groundsel: Winter annual member of the aster family. Sparsely hairy leaves, yellow disk flowers.

1 2               10 11 12

Hawkweed: Erect stems, hairy leaves growing from rosette, flowers in yellow cluster, stolons run along ground. Treat in early spring.

      4 5 6 7 8

Henbit: Disappears in high temperature. Winter annual, hairy surfaces on leaves with rounded teeth, pink flowers. Treat in spring or fall.

1 2 3                11 12

Knotweed, Prostrate: Low growing, mat like growth habit. Annual. Treat when weed is young. Found mostly in pasture.

1 2 3           9 10 11 12

Lambsquarter: Summer annual, leaves grayish green underneath, edges ragged, toothed.

   3 4 5 6 7 8

Marestail: Annual weed, winter or summer, leaves are oblanceolate, stems simple, unbranched. The inflorescence is a panicle of heads with pink to white flowers.

  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 

Moss: Perennial primitive plant, lacks true roots, develops spores.

  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 

Nimblewill: A perennial grass that browns in the winter, produces short stolons, but no rhizomes, leaf blades are narrow white-green.

    3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Nutsedge: Sedges have triangular stems with waxy grass-like leaves which alternate. Sedges are not grass plants, but seedlings may be mistaken for grass.

        5 6 7  

Poison ivy: Poison ivy can be an erect woody shrub or a climbing vine. The leaves alternate on red stems. They are glossy and have 3 leaflets.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Poison oak: Poison oak is identified by 1 ½ to 3 inch long leaflets with two to seven deep lobes resembling oak leaves. Lateral leaflets appear without stalks on viny stems, leaflets are grouped three per leaf, and flowers are yellowish.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Prickley lettuce/Compass plant: The leaves form in a basal rosette, a row of spines along the mid-vein of the lower surface.

  2 3 4 

Puncture vine: A summer annual, flowers are solitary with 5 yellow petals, The leaves are even-pinnately compound composed of 8-16 hairy leaflets, are prostrate mat.

  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Purslane: Winter annual. Erect stems. Pre-emergent in Sept-Oct.

  2 3 4 5

Quackgrass: A blue-green perennial. The leaves are rolled in the bud, upper surface of the leaf blade is rough.

      4 5 6 7 8 9 

Sandbur: A summer annual grass, leaves are folded in the bud, the ligule is a fring of hairs, seedhead is a spike that catch on clothing or animal fur.

  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Sheep sorrel: A summer perennial. Leaves form a basal rosette, have smooth oval leaves.

  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 

Shepherds purse: A winter annual basal leaves are deeply lobed, pointing away from the base.

1 2                  11 12

Spotted spurge: Warm season annual. Prostrate growth, ooze milky fluid when broken. Pre-emergent in late spring.

  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 

Star-of-Bethlehem: The leaves are thick, waxy, and grass like. Has dark green blades and a white-grooved mid-rib. White flower containing 6 petals.

1 2                  11 12

Thistle, Bull: Biennial. Bushy clump of spiky leaves. Treat in late spring. Germinates Spring - fall.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Thistle, Canadian: Biennial. Long narrow, very spiky leaves. Purplish thistle flower. Treat in fall. Germinates June - Sept.

          6 7 8 9 

Thistle, Musk: Biennial. Rosette of long, spiky leaves, large purple flowers. Treat in late spring. Germinates June - Sept.

          6 7 8 9 

Thistle, yellow: Winter annual. Bushy clump of spiky leaves. Treat in late spring. Germinates Spring - fall.

1 2               10 11 12

Virginia buttonweed: Prostrate-growing perennial with lance-shaped hairy stems, prefers moist, wet conditions.

    3 4 5 6 7 8 9 

Virginia creeper: A perennial deciduous woody vine, leaves are compound, containing 5 leaflets, often confused with poison ivy.

      4 5 6 7 8 9 

Wild carrot: Lacy fern like leaves develop in a basal rosette form, flowers of wild carrot are small and white and forms a flat umbrella.

1 2               10 11 12

Wild garlic/onion: Winter perennial, waxy, upright needle shaped leaves growing 8-12 inches long.

1 2               10 11 12

Wild strawberry: A low trailing winter perennial, spreading by stolons. The leaves are like cultivated strawberries, with 5-petal flowers and red strawberry fruit.

1 2               10 11 12

Wild violet: Perennial. Heart shaped leaves, pansy-like flowers. Appears in moist, shady soil. Treat in May-June.

    3 4 5 6 

Yarrow: Perennial. Fernlike leaves along stem, flat clusters of white flowers. Treat in early summer.

  2 3 4 5 6 7 8   

Yellow Foxtail: A summer annual which germinates when soil temperatures reach 65 degrees F. The leaves are rolled in the bud, hairs near base, grows erect.

  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9  

Yellow rocket: Biennial or perennial. Shiny round bright green lower leaves, yellow flowers on stalks. Treat in early spring. Germinates Nov - March.

1 2 3             10 11 12

Yellow woodsorrel: Three heart-shaped hairy leaves, creeping stems, small yellow flowers with 5 petals. Use post-emergent in late spring.

  2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9