Weed Identification - Bermuda grass North Carolina

SReddy · Feb 14, 2020

Hi,

Could you please help me in identifying weeds from attached photos. Grass is Tifway 419 Bermuda and location is CARY. North Carolina.
As well if you could help me in selecting right herbicide for getting rid of these. Temperatures are in mid 40's these days (Day temp high's in 50-60's and night lows in 30's).

Have put pre-emergent 2 weeks back (Andersons 0.48 Barricade Herbicide), and not sure what to use as spray to get rid of these emerged weeds.

Thank you for your help. Appreciated.

TurfWerks · Feb 14, 2020

A good broadleaf weed control for everything EXCEPT the 1st 3 pictures. Thats annual blue grass. Revolver works well if its bermuda or zoysia.

takervader · Feb 14, 2020

Poa annua is the top pictures, bluegrass. Its your fall preemergent that stops that one, it was actually growing low all winter.

Poa will be nuked by Certainty or Metsulfuron-Methyl (MSM), and add a basic 3-way (2-4D, MCPP, Dicamba, basically most generic weed control sprays) and you should just attack everything green right now and it'll die. Certainty is expensive but its good to use later this summer on sedges in bermuda too, and it takes very little to do the job.

They will work slower with cold weather but you'll walk outside in 10-14 days and it'll all be brown and dying.

hort101 · Feb 14, 2020

Picture number 4 looks like pansy or violets

RigglePLC · Feb 15, 2020

Agree mostly. Poa, hairy bittercress and chickweed.
Get a licensed and experienced company to do the work.
Smart treatments in the fall will prevent most of this. Fall broadleaf control and a pre -emergent for poa (annual bluegrass).
Winter annuals are a problem about this time of year--a few weeks before the first mowing.

SReddy · Feb 15, 2020

thank you all for your help. Appreciated very much.

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