Please don't tell me this is a weed
 

Hi friends, I need your help again telling me what the heck is growing in my yard. This grass began to overtake my other grass and I let it go thinking it was Saint Augustine and now I'm being told it's a weed. Help me identify this. Thank you again

Marty

No idea what it is, but if it's green and thick I'd let it replace the St Augustine. Probably save you a fortune in green-up and irrigation. Run it by ARC first.

it looks like thick crab grass.. no weed killer that I know of to kill it without killing your st augustine... if it's crab grass waith til winter months when it dies off and then pull it out and put in sod or plugs

We all spend to much time and effort worrying about grass.
My suggestion is take a sample to the county extension office on 466 for an opinion.

Looks like Bermuda grass to me. I say just let it grow and mow as needed. Bermuda, St. Augustine, Zoysia, and that 4th one that I can't remember the name of. It's all just weeds, because real grass doesn't grow in Central Florida without TONS of maintenance.

Your lawn is replacing expensive garbage with less expensive garbage. Just embrace it.

Doveweed. Baking soda will kill it.

I like your thinking. Thick and green. Exactly what we all want our lawns to be like.

I cannot recall the full name but it may be Asian ______ (that I cannot recall). Perhaps others can fill in the blank.
Apparently, low maintenance and being used in Lawns throught the village,
Can someone please add context,
thank you

It's not Asian Jasmine - that's a lot less grass-like, but does make excellent low-maintenance ground cover

Doveeeed it is!
 

Unfortunately doveweed is correct. Went to YouTube found some extension agents to talk about it explain exactly how it works in the wet ground and the little flowers I see from time to time that's exactly what it is.
thank you all I think

Marty

Bingo, thanks again.
Baking soda huh

Lived in Florida all my life and this does not look like Bermuda and appears to be a weed. As others have suggested show it to an expert. Agreee about TONS of maintenance

Get the APP “picture this”.

Doveweed. It's bad this year.
Atrazine will kill it.
Will die off when it gets cold.
Use a pre-emergent like Prodiamine before the soil temps reach 50-55 deg. (around Feb.)

Landscapers Spread It
 

Dove weed won’t successfully be removed if you have a landscaper mowing service. Remember they mow 100s of yards a week. The seeds of the pest are bound to be in the mower deck because they have been picked up at a neighbor’s place.

Embrace

It’s a weed. Doveweed as some others have said. Check out the link below from the University of Florida. It will provide you with good info.

Doveweed - University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences

This one of the many reasons I mow my own yard. I still get weeds coming in from the 3 adjacent properties but I watch it closely and handle any weed “invasion” as I find it. I’m a little OCD on this subject 😎

What ever it is called, It does like wet moist ground. I have a septic system and does like that area. It will kinda die back over the winter months but it will come back and the mid summer is when you will notice it the most. It probably came to your yard from your mower guys. The Pre Emergent comment you received it spot on. Round up now sells weed killer that is made to put on St Augustine Grass and will NOT kill the grass only the weed. You may want to give it a try. Good Luck

Crabgrass killer. Won’t kill St Aug. but will turn it a little white for a week or so.
Manufactured by Syngenta, Tenacity is one of the safest and most effective weedkillers on the market. It targets and effectively kills weeds like crabgrass, nutsedge, dandelions, clover, and others, either before they sprout (pre-emergent control) or after you notice patches of weeds on your lawn (post-emergent).

It's a weed/grass like St. Augustine. Terrible! It will take over your lawn and you won't like it. Spectracide makes a Weed Killer that also kills Nutsledge and Crabgrass. Home Depot sells it. Mix with water in a spray container. Very affective. Better hurry! Go online to see if they have it in stock or order online and pick n it up at Home Depot.

The weed/grass is easily pulled out, roots and all. Do it before it spreads.

So sorry that I cannot help you with your question but I do have a sort of related comment. I could never understand why fake grass wasn’t permitted in TV. It seemed to make sense to me…no watering or mowing, always green. So what’s the issue as long as it can drain when it rains? That is UNTIL I visited a friend in Indian Harbour Beach this weekend. A house on their block had it and some beautiful palms, but it looked to fake. I was awful. Now I completely understand.

Any garden idea, it is a good idea to see what they look like in real life. They all look great in the ads.

A weed is by definition any plant that you don't want there. Seeds are everywhere.
Plants wanted and not, want to spread. Some are eaten by birds and travel great distances. Where we used to live, dandelions were everywhere. As a kid I used to enjoy blowing the seed balls. Was it my fault? Perhaps many of them.
My grandmother thought they were pretty. Perhaps, smarter than we were.
Temperature? I have plenty of other weeds but no dandelions.

Our neighborhood used to have loads of thistles, which seemed to shoot up out of the lawns overnight, but I have seen none for several years.

You are quite right! I did the same thing as a child with the dandelion seed heads. In one of my grade school classes we learned that the leaves of dandelion are edible so we ate a dandelion salad in class!
Hated having them in my yard as an adult though.

The Picture This App cost $30 per year, if you feel it's worth it.

Dandelion weed is also a great addition to salads, and can be sauteed in olive oil and sprinkled with lemon juice for a tasty side-dish.

You can also get the LENS app if you have an Android phone. It's free and some phones come with it already loaded in.

In the Northeast, Bermuda IS a weed. No one up north puts down Bermuda on purpose. It's invasive and will destroy a bluegrass/rye lawn in a single season.

You nailed it, thanks again.
 

I spread some baking soda on a small area and WOW it destroyed it. I picked a small area with a area spreading concern and some "good" grass included. Stopped the spread and kept the good grass. I read a lot about stuff and no mention of baking soda. I was going to experiment with water delusion to use it by spraying.
Thanks again.

Marty

A weed is simply plant that is growing in a place that you don't want it.

Unfortunately, baking soda and other chemical killers make the area a tough place to grow the grass you want in the spot you kill the weeds. Dig them out, fill the hole with soil (recommend Sparr topsoil to avoid new weeds). If the area is large, add plugs or sod.
For decades I have watched the catch 22 of applying weed killer to Village lawns, only to see the area attacked by new weeds, and the St Aug or Zoysia not be able to thrive in the high chemical, Alkaline soil created. Just dig the weed up and be done with it, apply Preen to decrease the number of weed seeds that grow in the future.