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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Curly dock
(Rumex crispus): Buckwheat family; perennial; seed leaves succulent and
3 times longer than wide; young seedlings vary in color, from entirely green
to red tinged in cooler months; petioles of young seedlings ribbed with bases
extending onto stem.
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Dandelion
(Taraxacum officinale): Aster family; perennial; seed leaves green-yellow,
smooth, and range from circular to oval to spatulate; young leaves without hairs
and usually gray-green on lower surface, alternate, form basal rosette, and spatulate
or oval with long petiole; margins of third true leaf wavy with irregular, widely
spaced teeth.
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Dallisgrass
(Paspalum dilatatum): Grass family; perennial; first leaves rolled in
bud; ligule membranous and tall, with bluntly pointed or rounded tip; long, silky
hairs at collar; no auricles; sheaths flattened with prominent midrib; first
leaf sheaths softly hairy.
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Field bindweed
(Convolvulus arvensis): Morningglory family; perennial; seed leaves nearly
square, with shallow notch at tip; early true leaves spade shaped; petioles flattened.
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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.
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White clovers
(Trifolium spp.): Pea family; perennial; seed leaves spatulate, smooth;
blades taper into petiole; first leaf simple, truncated at base, round to broadly
oval; later leaves with 3 leaflets per leaf, smooth, alternate, lower surface
gray-green, upper surface green; usually light-green splotch near base of each
leaflet.
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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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