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help naming this hard to kill weed

11 years ago

iv been looking in my lawn and found this weed growing in it i have tried westlands weed control and it works on surrounding weeds but not this one it must be pretty tough.. was just wondering whether anyome can name this weed for me and suggest a treatment to destroy it it has a trailing habit and grows rather rapidly thank u

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CaraRose
11 years ago
Reminds me of creeping charlie, don't think the leaves are quite right though.
jeanne
11 years ago
Compare your plant to Virginia Waterleaf, Hydrophyllum virginianum.

This post was edited by jeanne on Mon, Apr 29, 13 at 11:19
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flora_uk
11 years ago
Ranunculus repens, Creeping Buttercup, imo.

Here is a link that might be useful: Creeping Buttercup

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