Bermudagrass
(Cynodon dactylon): Grass family; perennial; first leaves with somewhat
rough surface; ligule surrounded by ring of hairs with tuft of long hairs on
either side; auricles absent; stem flat, wiry, and without hairs.
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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.
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Field bindweed (perennial)
(Convolvulus arvensis): Morningglory family; perennial, with most new
shoots and seedlings emerging in spring; seed leaves nearly square, with shallow
notch at tip; early true leaves spade shaped; petioles flattened.
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No photo available.
(Seedlings rarely occur, most plants from rhizomes and/or tubers)
Purple nutsedge
(Cyperus rotundus ): Sedge family; perennial; (young plant) young shoot
is somewhat stiff, upright, and light green with a fairly prominent whitish midvein;
no auricle or ligule; triangular stem solid or pithy and rarely hollow as in
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Johnsongrass
(Sorghum halepense): Grass family; perennial; persists and spreads via
underground stems (rhizomes), which are thick, fleshy, and segmented; roots and
shoots can rise from each rhizome segment; leaves have a prominent whitish midvein.
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