Miscellaneous weeds

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1. I have a small, reddish-leaved clover type of weed that puts out tiny yellow flowers and spreads through flower beds and lawns very quickly. Does anyone know what it is and how I can totally get rid of it?
   

   - Carol Foster 7---0-2004



2. This is probably yellow oxalis (Oxalis corniculata) which spreads mainly by its seeds which are flung from the seedpod when it bursts. The seeds are sticky and will adhere to anything they hit. It does not spread vegetatively so hoe out the existing plants and any further seedlings that emerge to prevent any further seeding.
   

   - Bill Bond 7---0-2004



3. We have a weed growing in our back yard that we first thought was a sun flower by the leaves but is now seven feet tall and not a sun flower. It is completely green with no visible flowers. Its leaves are paired and broad (about 1 foot wide). Just curious as to what it might be. If you have any ideas please tell us. Thanks
   

   - sam saenger 8---0-2004



4. Not a lot to go on, the only thing I can suggest is Jeruslem artichoke which grows tall, is sunflower-like and does not always flower. If so it will form a tuber later in the year.
   

   - Bill Bond 8---0-2004



5. I have a climbing weed (I think) taking over my back fenced. Its very green in colour and the leaves are a kind of heart shape. No flowers that I can see at the moment. The leaves are not waxy in texture more fleshy. Any ideas??
   

   - Germaine Knight 5---0-2005



6. Victoria.. Nothing comes to mind that would fit your description. Perhaps if you could describe the flower in more detail and where the plant occurs we may think of something.
   

   - Bill Bond 6---0-2005



7. I have a vine (at least I think it is a vine) climbing my fence and rose bushes, taking them over really, it has heart shaped leaves that are about an inch long and flower clusters of about 20 little white-ish buds. Not much of a smell. Any help??!
   

   - Melissa Smith 7---0-2005



8. It may be black bindweed (Fallopia convolvulus), an annual weed which looks very like a bindweed but has small flowers and fibrous roots. If so it should just pull up relatively easily. The main thing is to stop it shedding seed that will become a future problem.
   

   - Bill Bond 7---0-2005



9. I have noticed a weed which has become very persistent in the garden. There are normally a group of medium to large leaves surrounding the base of the plant, and long tough stems appear above the plant that produce small yellow cloverlike flowers (normally just a few per stem.) Once the flowers have finished, round clusters of small green seeds appear with hooks on each that readily attach to clothing. Any help in identifying this plant would be appriciated!
   

   - Graham 9---0-2005



10. We have a weed overtaking our St. Augustine grass. It has long leaves, similar to blades of grass, and tiny purple flowers on rather long stems. Help!
    

    - Marilyn 1---1-2005



11. I have about 40 large cane like steams weeds growing in my garden, it doesnt flower and they grow to about 7ft. there in the flower beds grass and pushing up the patio.
    Pls Pls help
    

    - Danielle 5---0-2006



12. I have a weed that likes walls,pavements and crevices etc,but also grows elsewhere.it has red slightly hairy stems that spread out from the centre with three jaggedy leaves at the ebd of each stem and a pink flower.They have an unpleasant smellwhen disturbed and produce loads of seeds.
    

    - alan 5---0-2006



13. Danelle - this sounds very much like Japanese Knotweed and all the information we have is on the website but there are links to a lot of other information on this weed.
    
    Alan - this could be Herb Robert (Geranium robertianum). It is more a weed of gardens than an arable weed. It is easily pulled up to prevent seeding.
    
    

    - Bill Bond 5---0-2006



14. I am unsure if this vine is a weed or not! We have a heavily landscaped yard and have not been able to identify everything. I just noticed several vines that popped up along the fence and are wrapping around my roses, trees, birdhouses and anything else in the vicinity. The leaves are heart shaped and are a vibrant green with almost a copper color around the outermost surface, with a kind of waxy appearance. We also have clematis and silver lace so I don't know if this is just an additional vine that I didn't really notice last year. I think last year there may have been just one of the same vine that produced small brown pods. Any ideas? Any at all? Thanks!
    

    - Jennifer 5---0-2006



15. I have a plant that comes up all over my garden every year. It has a hairy square shaped stem and a downy heart shaped leaf with serated edges. There are tiny purple flowers along the top of the stem. (bees love it)
    Susan 30.5.06
    

    - Susan V 5---0-2006



16. I have a weed growing in my rose garden. When it originally started to grow, I thought it might have been a shoot off my roses because it had thorns and the standard three and five leaf branches. Now I noticed that the thorns are also on the underside of the leaf. It doesn't flower, but it is taking over everything. Does anyone know what this is and how do I get rid of it? Thanks.
    

    - Shirley 5---0-2006



17. I have a creeping weed that behaves like ground elder but has serrated, thin 5 or 7-pronged leaves on the end of a thin stem. It invades the grass, chokes plants in the borders and I would love to know how to get rid of it. It keeps growing back!
    

    - Geraldine 6---0-2006



18. We have what must be a weed climbing on our trellis. It has small leaves with shoots of tiny white flowers. Anyone know what it could be?
    

    - rita scholl 7---0-2006



19. I have a "plant" in my back yard that has grown 10 ft in 3 weeks, no joke. The leaves at their largest are almost 2 ft across. Any ideas as to what it is?
    

    - Rebecca 8---0-2006



20. We have a persistent weed with rhubarb like leaves which have prickly hairs on the underside.what could this be and how do we erradicate it?
    

    - Elizabeth 8---0-2006



21. I have what I think is a weed in my back garden. It has a central stem to which are attached at all sides narrow spear shaped leave which are dark green in colour. It's quite a attractive looking thing, but I haven't the foggiest what it could be! Any ideas?
    

    - Toria 8---0-2006



22. I have a vines growing in my fig trees 1 inch in diameter with briars like roses going up stems. they grow up to 20 to 25 feet and with alternating green leaves . The grow from huge tubers in the ground. I have been unable to identify from the internet. At the base of alternating leaf the is a little round growth on a tiny stem. This may be the bloom I don't know. Please help me identify this vine for it's trying to take over my fig trees.
    

    - Faye 8/20/06 8---0-2006



23. I have a weed that looks like an ivy and it wraps around everything around it but there are large pods approx 2-3 inches that have spikes on them. It pulls away from the plants easily but, is persistent. Any ideas?
    

    - Alyssa 9---0-2006



24. On my allotment there's a perennial weed with a taproot. leaves form round shape plant with everythin coming from centre and middle stems have red tinge. leaf a bit like geranium. In soil every bit of root left has a new 'bud'like growth on it. Leaf stems thicken up like geraniums do. What is it?
    

    - Jude 2---0-2007



25. I HAVE A LARGE,FUZZY, THICK AS MY WRIST VINE ON SOME
    OF MY TREES. THE PERSON WHO WAS CLEANING AROUND THE TREES NOW HAS AN AWFUL RED RASH ON THIER FOREARMS.THEY SAY THE RASH DOES NOT ITCH THE FOREARMS ARE SWOLLEN AND COVERED BY THIS RASH. WHAT IS THE VINE AND WHAT IS THE CURE FOR THE RASH?
    

    - ANITA 4---0-2007



26. We have had a weed spreading all over the garden. It appears to spread by the roots, originally someone told me it was Ground Elder but I have found a picture and the leaves are the wrong shape. This has sort of elongated leaves which run up the stalk and a head of tiny white flowers on top of each stem. Usually dies off during the winter but starts appearing Feb and is flowering by Mar/Apr. Any idea what it might be?
    

    - GAIL 5---0-2007



27. I have aweed/plant/tree? it has fury stem/branches,looks like deer's anklers. The leafs look like large fern leafs.Grows and spreads very quickly, if you cut it ,it spreads over a wide area.Spraying does not seem stronge enough.Nightmare.I have being told it is a Rush.HOW DO YOU GET RID OF IT.
    

    - jackie h 7---0-2007



28. I have a red stemmed weed with thorns and long seed things that look like and animal tail. This is all over my horse pastures and leaves their legs sappy and sticky... any ideas?
    

    - Hillary Brown 7---0-2007



29. I have a flower garden that used to never get weedy when my husbend kept the yard. He has since died and I dont know what he did to keep the weeds out. I have to pull massive weeds out weekly . How do I stop theis
    

    - Anon. 7---0-2007



30. I have something which is literally strangulating my hawthorn hedge, it has no leaves but small sticky balls. Does anyone know what this is and how to get rid of it?
    

    - Helen 9---0-2007



31. I have a clump of weed growing which I think may be some form of nightshade. It has red stem with green ovate leaves and is about 2metres high.If it is poisonous how do I get rid of it.
    

    - robert 9---0-2007



32. I HAVE A PLANT THAT GROWS IN MY GARDEN THAT I THINK IS A WEED. IT GROWS ABOUT 3FT AND IS MADE UP OF LONG THIN STEMS (ALMOST SPIKEY LIKE) AND IT GETS VERY THICK AROUND THE BASE AND THESE STEMS GROW FROM IT. THEY SOMETIMES HAVE A VERY TINY FLOWER TYPE GROWTH ABOUT TWO INCHES FROM THE TIP OF THE STEM AND I THINK THIS IS CAUSING IT TO SPREAD. IT IS INCREDIBLY HARD TO DIG UP AND THE BASE IS SO THICK AND DEEP ROOTED BUT JUST COMES BACK (AND NOW THERE ARE ABOUT 5 DIFFERENT SITES) THERE WAS ONE LAST YEAR THAT GOT ABOUT 5 FT HIGH AND KILLED THE LAVENDER BUSH NEXT TO IT. IT IS SO HARD TO DESCRIBE IT AND IF ANY ONE KNOWS ANY GOODS SITES THAT I CAN LOOK AT PICTURES THIS MIGHT HELP ME TO IDENTIFY IT, THEREFORE KNOW HOW TO ERADICATE. THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ANY HELP YOU CAN OFFER.
    

    - Debby 0---1-2007



33. Debbie- without more information on things like location etc. it is difficult to be sure what your weed is. It sounds like it could be Japanese Knotweed which is becoming a big problem in the UK. Some of the correspondents above seem to have the same problem. Look on our webpage devoted to this weed . Failing that you could send a few pictures to us at the email address on the contact us page.
    

    - Gareth Davies 0---1-2007



34. I have a huge number of rosettes of leaves which, in shape, resemble the rib plantain, but which have small white, vicious thorns throughout their surfaces. When they mature, they stand around a foot tall, with yellow flowers.
    

    - Victoria Clarke 3---0-2008



35. I have a dreadful weed that seems to be miles long . the stems are squarish & clingy& the leaves long. It's covered in tiny sticky balls & clings to every thing.Whenever my dogs play in the garden ,they get all these sticky balls stuck in their coats. It's an endless task to remove them all & one none of us enjoy. Can you identify this weed for me & tellme how to get rid of it.Thank you.
    

    - Molly 3---0-2008



36. We have thick, vines that grow in the grass. Parts of these vines look like grass. They criss-cross over each other and seem to connect into the ground every few inches where the grass-looking part grows. The vines are thick and tough and especially difficult to pull out when green. I have not seen any flowers to it.
    

    - Sarah Kessler 3---0-2008



37. I live in a mobile home park that has the hard, red clay type dirt & on one end of my home is some kind of weed my dad used to call "Moody Grass". He also said that it would smother anything you plant around it. Does anyone know the real name for it & how to get rid of it so I can plant my flowers, bushes etc......?
    

    - Kathey 4---0-2008



38. We have a weed which has appeared over the last month or so. Hundreds of them in our lawn. It has a 2 inch red stem. The first 2 leaves which emerge are long and thin (just under 2 inches long by half an inch across) with no obvious veins but feint straight lines on the under side. The subsequent leaves are red/green and shaped like a christmas tree. It has pink/purple flowers. Any ideas
    

    - Jeremy 4---0-2008



39. I have weeds including dandelions growing around the edges of my home against the external walls. Can you help me to eliminate these also when we dig them up we find hundreds of wood lice come out of the weeds
    

    - sue blake 5---0-2008



40. I have a weed that travels under ground with long white roots, it has fern like leaves and yellow flowers / Can somebody tell me what it is called and how to get rid of it, please.
    

    - Janet stenson 7---0-2008



41. i have weeds growing from my stone wall in the garden. the roots are forcing the waal appart. every year i cut them back and try to dig out the root but they just seem to come back. they do grow quite tall and can get really thick at the base. they have a purply flower at the top...
    

    - jason crabbe 7---0-2008



42. My grass is becoming overwhelmed by this strange weed that looks like a fern. I have mowed it but that doesnt help. Will just pulling it work?
    

    - Vicki 7---0-2008



43. I have a small plant with very green leaves and thorns growing along the center of each leaf. Can you tell me what it is?
    

    - migdalia cordero 7---0-2008



44. Our grass has been taken over by something that looks like a vine....during the early spring, while we were away it covered the whole yard, piling up almost a foot high....Green, tiny flowers, long roots...Any idea what this might be?
    

    - Melissa 7---0-2008



45. I have a plant about 40cm high but has not flowered. th eleaves are about 15-20cm hairless with lobed/pointed margins.The petioles and veins are purplish. There are viscious thorns growing out of the veins on the leaves. Any ideas?
    

    - Judy 8---0-2008



46. I have I think a weed with tiny white flowers and green heart shaped leaves, it isn't bindweed. the flowers are not much bigger than a pin head and the leaves are about 1cm
    

    - sian 8---0-2008



47. I have a yellow stringy vine, the diameter of silly string with white flowers that is choking my shasta daisies. I can't seem to find where in the ground it comes from but it wraps itself around the flower stems. The nurseries I have visited don't know what this is. Any help on what this is and how to get rid of it?
    

    - Donny 8---0-2008



48. I have NO CLUE what this plant/weed is. It grows very quickly. I cut it down when it was 6ft tall...(the root is impossible to pull out.. it must be dug out).. who knows how much taller it would have grown. The stem is smooth, it has a red tinge to it at the bottom, and then at the top it's green. There are a few stocks coming out of the roots and the stocks are about 2-4 inches in diameter. When you cut it, it's juicy. It also has round oval-like leaves...no flower. It kind of looks like it could flower, but nothing ever happened. I thought it might be a Jerusalem artichoke,but I dont think that's it. The roots are huge and carrot-like. Please help!
    

    - Jen 8---0-2008



49. I have a weed/tree that drops green balls the size of a baseball. They smell like nasty. I have cut it down and it just growsback. It is about 30 feet high. some one told me it was a weed??????
    

    - Tom 9---0-2008



50. i live in NH and have about a half acre. i left for iraq a year and a half ago and when i got home in august, about 1/4 of my yard was taken over by this weed:
    
    It is an ivy like vine which has a red stem and vine. the leaves are very small (half inch and smaller) and it is growing very thick as a ground covering killing grass and spreading fast. it puts shallow roots down near the flowers everywhere it touches and spreads more vines.
    
    does anyone know what this is or how to get rid of it?
    

    - Henry 9---0-2008



51. I have a weed that looks a bit like charlock, its stems bleed a neon orange like sap. Can you identify
    

    - CarolPrice 1---1-2008



52. I am trying to identify a plant that is growing in one of our flower beds. The flower looks like a very small daisy with an orange center and white petals. The stem is about 3 feet tall and has about 50 of the flowers.
    

    - Linda W 1---1-2008



53. to tom, I think I have the same tree. It has branches with leaves that look like they belong in the jungle and it drops golf ball size "fruits", but ours smell like tea. I have no idea what kind of tree/weed it is...does anyone know??
    

    - johanna 1---1-2008



54. HELP! We have a super healthy looking weed (it might even be a proper plant!). Large oval leaves erupting from the base of the plant and a huge single root (approx 2cm diameter). Quite pretty blue flowers a little later in the year. Despite digging it out every year it comes back bigger than ever. Any ideas what it is?
    

    - Martin 3---0-2009



55. HELP! We have a super healthy looking weed (it might even be a proper plant!). Large oval leaves erupting from the base of the plant and a huge single root (approx 2cm diameter). Quite pretty blue flowers a little later in the year. Despite digging it out every year it comes back bigger than ever. Any ideas what it is?
    

    - Martin 4---0-2009



56. I think I have identified a weed in my yard and rose bed from a web site. But when I enter the name for a search for irradicating it I get an error. I has long slender stems w/ spaces between leaf sections which alternate right off the main stem. tends to grow in short vine like manor. It produces small purple flowers in clusters of three. The leaf shape is slender like those of a young fern leaf. The name I came up w/ is Narrowleaf Vetch or Vicia sativa L. I would like to know the best way to get rid of it in the lawn and the rose bed w/o damaging the roses and grass.
    

    - Kimberly 4---0-2009



57. I have a bunch of weeds, they are very small and they kinda look like trees. I know they are not trees, but know whey they are and how to get ride of them.
    

    - Chad Hissong 4---0-2009



58. i also have a rhubarb like plant and don't know if i should pull it or not
    

    - mooster 1---1-2009



59. Susan V 3005 2006 Your weed sounds like hedge woundwort to me. You gave a brilliant description.
    

    - Lynn Wilson 1---1-2009



60. Chad Hissong 21-04-2009
    Your 'trees' are probably "Horsetail" which is almost impossible to eradicate.
    

    - Lynn Wilson 1---1-2009



61. I have a creaping weed that vines out and has small blue flowers on it - what is it and how do I get rid of it - you can pull on one of the vines and it will lead you to the center of the plant and then pull it up from there - but there are alot of them to pull - HELP
    

    - Sandy 1---1-2009



62. I HAVE A WEED IN MY GARDEN ,I THINK ITS A STICKIE WILLIE,JUST READ SOMTHING THAT SAYS DONT TOUCH THIS WEED IT CAN CAUSE A RASH , IS THERE A WEED KILLER I CAN SPRAY ON IT,? IT IS TAKEING OVER,AND DONT WANT IT TO CHOKE THE REST OF MY PLANTS.
    HELP
    

    - jackie 1---1-2009