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Please help identify this weed

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by: Peabody Active Indicator LED Icon  OP  New Member
~ 7 years ago   Sep 11, '16 7:10pm  
Some type of weed is rapidly spreading throughout my Kingwood St. Augustine grass lawn. My best guess is buttonweed from a Google search. However, there are lots of plants that look similar and I'd like to get the treatment correct the first time. It grows in patches that are spreading out in multiple locations. I'm hoping that someone here can help me identify it. If I can identify it then I can figure out how to get rid of it. Apparently Scott's Weed and Feed doesn't prevent this one, or I'm not using enough of it.Weed adjacent to St. Augustine. Shoe for scale. Weed has little white flowers.Closeup of some strands I pulled out.A patch of the weed below. 4951
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AuthorMan Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 7 years ago   Sep 11, '16 7:24pm  
Had some of that earlier this summer.I pulled what I could up and then put some Scott's 'weed and feed' on it.Must have killed it- it is gone. 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Sep 11, '16 7:31pm  
Some type of weed is rapidly spreading throughout my Kingwood St. Augustine grass lawn. My best guess is buttonweed from a Google search. However, there are lots of plants that look similar and I'd like to get the treatment correct the first time. It grows in patches that are spreading out in multiple locations. I'm hoping that someone here can help me identify it. If I can identify it then I can figure out how to get rid of it. Apparently Scott's Weed and Feed doesn't prevent this one, or I'm not using enough of it.Weed adjacent to St. Augustine. Shoe for scale. Weed has little white flowers.Closeup of some strands I pulled out.A patch of the weed below.
 
@Peabody:
Virginia buttonweed
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Cajunmom Active Indicator LED Icon 5
~ 7 years ago   Sep 11, '16 7:48pm  
@buddyboy is right.  It's Virginia buttonweed.  I know because my backyard is infested with Virginia buttonweed and something called quack grass ... besides sod webworms. 4951
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Fallon Active Indicator LED Icon 18
~ 7 years ago   Sep 11, '16 7:54pm  
Removed By Request 4951
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buffaloglenn Active Indicator LED Icon 11
~ 7 years ago   Sep 11, '16 7:59pm  
@Cajunmom, and the for dang sure the pos webworms will NOT eat that!  Heck no.  The bat rastards leave every single weed in the yard.  
 
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Exactly. Those damn sod webworms only kill the grass, leaving the weeds, which then flourish. I've got that Virginia buttonweed all over my yard. My yard is a mess. 4951
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Cajunmom Active Indicator LED Icon 5
~ 7 years ago   Sep 11, '16 8:01pm  
I am paying my derelict children minimum wage to weed the yard.  4951
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Fallon Active Indicator LED Icon 18
~ 7 years ago   Sep 11, '16 8:03pm  
Removed By Request 4951
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Maisey1 Active Indicator LED Icon 9
~ 7 years ago   Sep 11, '16 8:12pm  
@buffaloglenn and @Cajunmom, I am scared to weed, I may would only have dirt left if I pulled up my weeds!  
 
@Fallon: We moved into a house like that. The only green in the yard was weeds. We were renting for a short period of time and didn't have much interest in spending the money to re-sod the yard so we just mowed the weeds. It looked nice and green from the street...
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Peabody Active Indicator LED Icon  OP  New Member
~ 7 years ago   Sep 11, '16 8:12pm  
Thanks buddyboy 4951
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cgm10sne1 Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 7 years ago   Sep 11, '16 8:45pm  
Uuugh. Yep. Pita! 4951
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justanirishgirl Active Indicator LED Icon 10
~ 7 years ago   Sep 11, '16 9:52pm  
wow! it looks like really pretty ground cover! If you let it grow, you'll never have to mow again! Just use a weed wacker to keep it low!  4951
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~ 7 years ago   Sep 11, '16 11:47pm  
i call it "sticky weed" scotts bonus S and Viagro make it go away fast.  it will take over but once you mow its gone . 4951
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~ 7 years ago   Sep 12, '16 1:06am  
Some type of weed is rapidly spreading throughout my Kingwood St. Augustine grass lawn. My best guess is buttonweed from a Google search. However, there are lots of plants that look similar and I'd like to get the treatment correct the first time. It grows in patches that are spreading out in multiple locations. I'm hoping that someone here can help me identify it. If I can identify it then I can figure out how to get rid of it. Apparently Scott's Weed and Feed doesn't prevent this one, or I'm not using enough of it.Weed adjacent to St. Augustine. Shoe for scale. Weed has little white flowers.Closeup of some strands I pulled out.A patch of the weed below.
@Peabody:  I think it is nut grass.  I hate it!
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Annie Active Indicator LED Icon 18
~ 7 years ago   Sep 12, '16 5:38am  
@Peabody:  I think it is nut grass.  I hate it!
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If you are thinking Sedge, I disagree.
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FoFa Active Indicator LED Icon 17
~ 7 years ago   Sep 12, '16 7:45am  
A southern lawn spray weed killer works on it. Not as good as some of the other weeds, so you have to use a stronger mix and drench it with the sprayer, and if some comes back, do it again.  4951
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