Chickweed Purple Flowers

Furthermore star chickweed doesn t sprawl as heavily as common chickweed.

Chickweed purple flowers.

One distinguishing feature of the star chickweed is that its hairs extend onto the flower section. The stalk of star chickweed is stronger than the common chickweed but it is still possible to expose the inner core. Corn speedwell veronica arvensis seen above is another winter annual. However unlike henbit creeping charlie is an extremely aggressive perennial weed.

This annual weed can be pulled up easily in moist soil. Henbit and the chickweeds easily survive mowing. It is also commonly mistaken for creeping charlie a k a. You can identify this groundcover weed by its scalloped leaves and clusters of purple flowers in late spring.

Photos are included to help with weed id. The two photos on the left of this composite image are common chickweed stellaria media while the two on the right are star chickweed stellaria pubera. Lastly here s more useful information about common chickweed and its relatives. If applied early in the fall prodiamine will prevent many weeds from germinating such as chickweed and henbit.

Chickweed flowers are small white and are held tightly in the upper leaf axils. The purple blooms of the purple deadnettle are apparent as well as the starlike blooms of the chickweed. They open into loose branching clusters with age on 1 2 inch hairy stalks. Purple deadnettle has upper leaves that are triangular with petioles and are distinctly red or purple tinged unlike the upper leaves of henbit.

A patch of henbit with scalloped leaves and purple flowers. The third method would be using a long range weed preventer such as prodiamine. Commonly found in lawns that are cut too short creeping charlie is probably the hardest weed to get rid of because even a small piece left behind can regrow and make a new plant. Henbit weed with purple flowers square stems and deeply scalloped leaves.

Finally a few other spring weeds are coming on now. Each flower is about 1 cm across with 5 deeply notched white petals usually with ten stamens with light yellow to greenish or even reddish anthers and a round green ovary in the. Chickweed is a creeping winter annual lawn weed. Improving the density of lawn grass can help keep it under control.

Prodiamine can be found in garden centers and are often labeled as crabgrass preventers. Spotted spurge spotted spurge has a reddish purple spot in the center of each leaf and the sap is milky which may cause a rash in sensitive individuals. Seeds germinate in fall or late winter. Common characteristics of these winter weeds.

How to identify and manage common chickweed stellaria media sometimes called starwort. They readily invade bare patches in the lawn. Red henbit lamium purpureum also called purple dead nettle. A few showed up in the vegetable garden paths just enough to remind me of their existence.

Common chickweed stellaria media lawn weed identification and control tips.