Weed Identification, what is it and how do I kill it?

 
Hi All,

This is my first post/ visit to your site. I would be very grateful for
any help
or advice you could give me.

We have a very difficult to shift weed in our garden. It has long
redish root,
which is long and narrow that simply snap when you try to
remove it. They seem
to travel straight down rather than outwards. It
has taken over our lawn.
I have not been able to find reference to it in any of the books I have
looked
at or on any of the web sites I have seen.

I have posted the following links hoping someone could advise me as to
what it
is.

http://tinyurl.com/5m4l43
http://tinyurl.com/6abu7r
http://tinyurl.com/6ogpaa
http://tinyurl.com/66r6nn

I have tried to get rid of it using chemicals, burners and digging them
out. The
weed doesnt seem to flower, but it does travel everywhere. For
clarification, I
am UK based in Milton Keynes.

Any advise or help is really appreciated.

Thanks all.

Love the site by the way




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Pooch

 
We have a very difficult to shift weed in our garden. It has long redish
root, which is long and narrow that simply snap when you try to remove
it. They seem to travel straight down rather than outwards. It has
taken over our lawn.
I have not been able to find reference to it in any of the books I have
looked at or on any of the web sites I have seen.

Hard to work out the scale from your photos, but my guess would be
creeping buttercup.  If I'm right, it kind of loops over the ground and
then sends down roots, altho they're white in my experience..  If I'm
wrong, someone will soon jump in.  If it's only in your lawn, the easy
answer is to apply a "weed and feed" dressing in the Spring.




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Janet Conroy

 
Janet Conroy;823337 Wrote:

buttercup.  If I'm right, it kind of loops over the ground and

> then sends down

roots, altho they're white in my experience..  If I'm

> wrong, someone will soon

jump in.  If it's only in your lawn, the easy

> answer is to apply a "weed and

feed" dressing in the Spring.

Hi Janet, thanks for replying. Our weed produces no flowers at all, and
having
googled creeping buttercup it doesn't look like our weed. The
photos make it
difficult to see properly. It grows through the lawn and
tries to cross paths
and borders.

Thanks for your help.

Chris




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Pooch

 Pooch said:

Maybe Potentilla reptans.  

http://www.plant-identification.co.uk/images/rosaceae/potentilla-reptans-
1.jpg

Could be your attempts to bring it under control are enough to stop it
blooming, but not enough to wipe it out.  

Sometimes viney things put more effort into spreading vegetatively
rather than by flower and seed.

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'Pat Kiewicz[_2_ Wrote:

Whatever it is, I would still say "weed and feed", either liquid or
granules in the Spring.




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Janet Conroy