Common Lawn Weeds Ruin Stripes

Many common weeds found in lawns and grass are appealing wild flowers. They look best in a meadow setting and not in a manicured lawn.

Lawn with stripes nor weeds

Dandelions produce prodigious amounts of fertile seed that seems to germinate well amongst grass in the lawn. Their deep tap roots need to be fully removed or killed to prevent a reinfestation of Dandelions. They can be spot weeded by hand or by using a spot-touch weed killer.

The common Daisy is a low growing weed that hugs the ground too smother the grass. They can develop large colonies and are often left untreated as they ‘look pretty’ and can make daisy chains.

Clover has tight heads of pink, yellow or white flowers with shamrock shaped leaves (Why sham rocks and not real ones?). It thrives in poor soil and runners can be intrusive. Feed the lawn and mow regularly and treat with selective weed killer if these treatments do not work. (pick the four leaved clover for luck!)

Plantains (bottom left)have large leaves that compete for soil nutrients depriving the grass.

Buttercups stunt neighbouring plants and creeps quickly over a lawn. There was not much stunting going on in this picture.

Most Common WeedsUncommon WeedsWeed control of AvensHorsetail and Mares-tailWhy war with weedsCredits Four-leaf Clover by dalcrose CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Buttercups by R~P~M CC BY-NC-ND 2.0