Here is the bad boy in our hood. I have a load going to the dump.
What troublesome invasive weed do you have in your area?
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I think my woods are 90% poison ivy. I have never seen so much of the stuff. The dogs keep finding burs and tagalongs.
Thorny Greenbriar. Birds love the fruit and it seeds easy. Can't pull it up as it has very tenacious roots right off the bat and the entire plant even the upper parts of the roots has tiny spines. Grows fast and is really an attractive plant, like poison ivy. Got a lot of that too.
But the Greenbriar has a glossy leaf and is immune to all but the strongest stuff. I finally found Gordons Brush killer will do the job. Cutting it off just makes it come back 10x the problem. I dug up a lot this spring as it, a evergreen in protected places.
New growth is attractive but it's a very tough vine as it ages and needs cut to remove. Won't break off.
But the Greenbriar has a glossy leaf and is immune to all but the strongest stuff. I finally found Gordons Brush killer will do the job. Cutting it off just makes it come back 10x the problem. I dug up a lot this spring as it, a evergreen in protected places.
New growth is attractive but it's a very tough vine as it ages and needs cut to remove. Won't break off.
Buckthorn. It's really hard to get rid of.
Dallisgrass is a real invasive nuisance. Had some it in my yard for the first time, but tried fighting it at our industrial unit. I wear gloves and rub Roundup onto to blades to kill them while minimizing collateral damage.
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Japanese Stiltgrass. Horrid stuff.
I have good luck with sending pictures to the Co-op extension for our state University. They respond with correct plant identification and suggestions to deal with it.
Grass like weeds in the lawn are the biggest issue for for. Quinclorac kills crabgrass but not some of the other grassy weeds like Dallisgrass and Goosegrass.
Grass like weeds in the lawn are the biggest issue for for. Quinclorac kills crabgrass but not some of the other grassy weeds like Dallisgrass and Goosegrass.
Seeing more and more leafy spurge.
bamboos
I really want to answer but fun answers are frowned upon so whatever is common to Texas gulf coast will have to do.
We also have a lot of Quack grass, which looks similar to Crab grass but has underground Rhizomes which grow horizontally underground to create more plants. In rural lawns it’s so common that people often give up and just mow more frequently because it grows faster than normal grass and looks ragged. Round up is probably the only way to deal with it but it kills everything.
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Japanese knotweed, birds love the prolific seeds. The vine circles another plant strangling it.
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