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    Can anyone help ID this weed and whats the best product to get rid of it. It has just started to pop up in one of my mates lawns and we'd like to knock it on the head quick. Sorry about the pic quality,there off my phone.

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    Question Re: Weed ID

    The picture is a bit fuzzy, um maybe a type of clover, I use Searles lawn weeder or lawn perfect for that kind of thing

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    Default Re: Weed ID

    Is it a bit like a succulent if so could be pig weed hard to tell though.

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    Default Re: Weed ID

    It is called Red Caustic Weed. Use broadleaf weeder or paint with roundup

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    Default Re: Weed ID

    here you go Courty. thought you might find this interesting
    http://www.herbiguide.com.au/Descrip...ustic_Weed.htm

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    Default Re: Weed ID

    Thanks guys,will attack it next week.

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    Default Re: Weed ID

    Yeah sure is Red Caustic Weed(Chameasyce drummondi) from the Euphorbiace family.The family of milky sap.And also a Prolific seeder which has no seed dormacy and gernimates quickly,so get to that weed ASAP before it takes over especially being so close to spring..

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    Is anyone able to ID this weed? I usually see it in garden beds but this time it's invading quite a large area of lawn. It has white look like little white bulblets on the roots too.

    Need to spray the lawn for broadleaf weeds but wanting to check this out first.
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    Default Re: Weed ID

    Looks like vetch, part of the pea family, fairly easy to pull out by hand.

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    Sounds like a useful plant actually but a shame it's become a lawn and garden weed. The bulblets I described are actually the nitrogen fixing nodules.

    http://www.pasturepicker.com.au/Html/Common_vetch.htm

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    Thanks so much. Common Vetch it is. Not one I knew. Definitely a pea-type flower. Does pull out okay but this is covering a huge area and I don't bend too well from the hips anymore to do hand weeding. Was worried about the little bulblets staying behind and reshooting?

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    Default Re: Weed ID

    Metsulfuron seems like the answer.

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    20130831_124857.jpgany ideas what type of grss this is as its coming
    up all over my back lawn?tends to grow in clumps.

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    Looks like nut grass to me! If it is Sampra.
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    Default Re: Weed ID

    Don't think it's nut grass,there's no seed(yet),tends to spread out from the centre like an upturned umbrella..

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