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Apr 25, 2024 7:17 AM CST
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Plainville, GA
Does anyone know what type of weed this is and how to treat it?
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Apr 25, 2024 7:38 AM CST
Name: stone
near Macon Georgia (USA) (Zone 8a)
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Has it ever bloomed?
Google suggests silene, also cress... the first is a desirable flower...


How long has this plant been there?
When you lift rocks are the stalks all rooted together?

Seems familiar...
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Apr 25, 2024 7:40 AM CST
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Plainville, GA
The roots are all connected together. It showed up in my raised garden bed last year. I have sprayed it with round up but it keeps coming back. I have not seen it bloom.
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Apr 25, 2024 8:08 AM CST
Name: stone
near Macon Georgia (USA) (Zone 8a)
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Kinda looks like diodia, but you should've seen flowers...
http://www.namethatplant.net/p...
https://warcapps.usgs.gov/Plan...

Most of the google lens suggestions are desirable wildflowers...
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Apr 25, 2024 8:12 AM CST
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Plainville, GA
The roots look to be one big system that run with in the raised bed. I cannot find the main root ball and I've dug done 16".
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Apr 25, 2024 8:18 AM CST
Name: stone
near Macon Georgia (USA) (Zone 8a)
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Yeah, that's typical of Virginia buttonweed, but I usually see flowers... Even where it gets mowed...

Have you visited the links I posted?
I encourage buttonweed for the tersa moths that use it as a host plant.
https://www.caterpillaridentif...
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Apr 25, 2024 8:20 AM CST
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Plainville, GA
I did. I normally pull it as soon as I see it. I will let it go until it blooms before I treat it.
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