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Peach
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Perennial Weeds You May See—Bloom Season
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White clover
(Trifolium repens): Pea family; perennial; seed leaves spatulate, smooth; blades taper into petiole;
first leaf simple, truncated at base, round to broadly oval; later leaves trifoliolate (3 leaflets per
leaf) smooth, alternate, lower surface gray-green, upper surface-green; usually light green splotch near
base of each leaflet. |
Johnsongrass (Sorghum halepense): Grass family; perennial;
first leaves with white midvein, 8 times longer than wide and rolled in bud; ligule membranous below and
fringed or toothed above; no auricles. |
Dallisgrass
(Paspalum dilatatum): Grass family; perennial; first leaves rolled in bud; ligule membranous and
tall, with bluntly pointed or rounded tip; no auricles; sheaths with prominent midrib and flattened; first
leaf sheaths softly hairy. |
Yellow nutsedge
(Cyperus esculentus): Sedge family; perennial; grasslike; light-green blades, flat, slender; leaf
tip long and drawn out; nutlets globe shaped, smooth, and almond flavored. |
Bermudagrass
(Cynodon dactylon): Grass family; perennial; first leaves with somewhat rough surface; ligule present;
tuft of long hairs on either side of ligule; stem flat, wiry, and without hairs. |
Field bindweed
(Convolvulus arvensis): Morningglory family; perennial;
seed leaves nearly square, with shallow notch at tip; early
true leaves are spade shaped; petioles are flattened. |
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