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I enjoyed your article. I'd like to see DG offer similar articles on a regional basis. While some of the weeds that you mentioned are also common here, we also have lots of other weeds, including garlic mustard grass and henbit. I'm trying to identify the major weeds in my yard this year, and some are still eluding me. Identifying the weeds makes control much easier.
Paul -
I will look forward to your next installment! Your photos are very good. I've got lots of varieties of weeds and I haven't taken the time to learn what they are and the easiest route to eradication. Henbit it rampant here, also, along with shot-weed, something my husband calls wild geranium (a rampant vine-like menace that puts down roots every few inches), and the bane of my gardening life: Japanese stilt grass.
Wild geranium – The only one I can find is Carolina Geranium, Geranium carolinianum, and it isn’t a vine -- http://www.weedalert.com/weed_pages/wa_geranium.htm We have that one too – again, I didn’t know its name.
What my husband has been calling "wild geranium" isn't the Carolina Geranium as pictured. Definitely not bindweed, although I have that, too. I'll post a photo later today. It's a very common weed, I'm sure someone will ID it.
The shot-weed responded quickly and decisively to a spritz of round-up when it appeared this spring.
