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Help! Need ID for invasive georgia weed...

14 years ago

This weed started out as a spindly thing on a hilly section of my yard, but has flowered with small blue-ish flowers, then dropped seed. Seeds are in a pod. Last year the yard was neglected for various reasons, and now there are little plantlets that have taken over the hill and are showing up in my flower beds. If anyone can help me ID this one, I think I might be able to get some info on controlling it.

Please help!

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maifleur01
14 years ago
Legume of some sort. Did the flowers look like pea flowers? Can you describe any pods or seed capsules.

In some ways it looks like a type of peanut I grew as a child.
diggindirty
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks for responding!

The seed capsules DID look like beans or peas. I'm not familiar with pea flowers, so not sure whether the flowers resembled pea flowers. The flowers are blue, and then in a very short while (3 days at most) seed pods appear, dry and pop open.
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