Identify Common Lawn Weeds in Ohio

Dandelions

Dandelions - This broadleaf weed can be most easily identified by its yellow bloom and hollow stalks. These pesky weeds go to seed usually within 5-8 weeks.

Wild Violets

Wild Violets - This perennial weed can be easily identified by their heart shaped leaves and small purple flowers.

Ground Ivy

Ground Ivy - This perennial creeping weed can be easily identified by it� s heavily veined appearance and round, scalloped edged leaves.

Spurge

Spurge - This annual weed can be easily identified by its flat, mat-like growth and purplish splotched leaves.

Black Medic

Black Medic - This annual weed can be most identified by its 3 clover-like leaflets and small bright yellow flowers.

Chickweed

Chickweed - This annual weed can be most easily identified by its tiny pointed oval un-toothed leaves and its slender delicate stems with tiny white flowers.

White Clover

White Clover - This perrenial weed can be most easily identified by its 3 trifoliate egg shaped leaf stems and its white flowering nodes.

Oxalis

Oxalis - This perennial weed can be most easily identified by its 3 somewhat folded heart shaped leaflets with yellow flowers.

Thistle

Thistle - The perennial weed can be most easily identified by its long leaves with sharp spines. This particular weed grows very aggressively in the hotter months.

Purselane

Purselane - This low lying creeping annual weed can be most easily identified by its thick, round reddish stems and paddle shaped leaves.

Buckhorn Plantain

Buckhorn Plantain - This perennial weed can be most easily identified by its long slender leaves approx. 1 inch across and its slender spike found at the tip.

Knotweed

Knotweed - This annual weed can be most easily identified by its numerous slender wiry stems. Leaves are blue-ish green in color with narrow oval shaped leaves.

Speedwell

Speedwell - This creeping annual weed can be most easily identified by its bright green, round leaves with scalloped edges. Leaves are tiny and are light blue in color.

Nutsedge

Nutsedge - This popular perennial sedge can commonly be mistaken for grass. It can be most easily identified by its cross sectioned root system arranged in sets of 3 from the base and its nut shaped tuber at the bottom.

Crabgrass

Crabgrass - Sprawls low across the ground from one central root. Spreading stems with wide, flat leaf blades that lie on the ground with tips ascending.

Bittercress

Bittercress - This Winter annual weed can be easily identified by its central stem which ascends, branching occasionally to produce secondary stems. It is light to medium green in color and has small white flowers.