its honestly easier just let them get bigger and pull them up...but most pre-emergent work. just as long as you haven't laid any grass seed out.

To control henbit in the spring it's best to put down a pre-emergent in the fall.

The guy who sprayed my yard last March had some roundup mixed in with the pre-emergent he put down for grassy weeds. The roundup killed the henbit that was growing. You have to be careful and not do it to late or the roundup will set back the bermuda.

In general pre-emergent in the fall controls winter broadleafs (like henbit) and pre-emergent in the spring controls summer grassy weeds and some broadleafs.

I don't worry about it. The bees love it and it will die back when the heat comes.

I think it is pretty or is that dead nettle with the purple blooms. In a lawn it blooms early and by the time you need to mow the grass, you just mow it down and grass takes over. I sure wouldn't bother using chemicals on it.

Great! It is blooming in (has pinkish purple flowers) some of the yard and I have been pulling it out. I don't like using chemicals so will leave it. Guess it will reseed and have more green next winter. Maybe that's not a bad thing! Thanks everyone.

I belong in the "I like henbit" camp. More importantly, the butterflies love it. In March and April there are tons of butterflies, especially swallowtails and sulphurs, flitting around the patches of henbit all day long. Some of my favorite wildflowers are considered weeds by most people, but I just leave them alone and let them grow. I prefer not to use chemical herbicides at all, though I'd never say that I'll never use one because you just never know. Sometimes I use Corn Gluten Meal as a pre-emergent in garden beds that have plants already up and growing in them.

I hate Henbit, but the bugs love it so I let it be. I only pull what is in the garden.