Grassy Weeds

These pesky intruders can steal essential nutrients and water from your desired turfgrass, leaving you with patchy or bare spots in your lawn. While some weeds can be fairly easy to remove, others – like grassy weeds – can be more difficult. Grassy weeds are often similar in appearance and growth habits to desirable turfgrass species, making them hard to identify and more challenging to deal with.

We will, over time, discuss some types of grassy weeds that are most commonly encountered, as well as methods for controlling them and keeping them from coming back. The list is long, so it will take a while to get them all covered. (We will refine this list over time)

Common Grassy Weeds

Alexandergrass (Creeping Signalgrass)
Annual Blueeyed-grass
Annual Bluegrass (Poa annua)
Annual Jewgrass
Annual Sedge
Bahiagrass
Blanket Crabgrass
Broadleaf Panicum (Tropic Panicum, Dominican Panicum)
Broadleaf Signalgrass
Broomsedge (Broomgrass, Sagegrass)
Bushy Bluestem (Bushy Broomgrass, Bushy Beardgrass)
Carpetgrass
Cogongrass (Japgrass)
Coral Dropseed
Crowfootgrass
Cylindric Sedge
Dallisgrass
Doveweed
Fall Panicum
False Nutsedge
Field Paspalum
Field Sandspur (Coast Sandbur, Field Sandspur)
Globe Sedge
Goosegrass (Crowfoot, Silver Crabgrass)
Gophertail Lovegrass
Green Kyllinga (Preennial Kyllinga)
Guineagrass
Hurricanegrass
India Crabgrass
Johnsongrass
Jungle Rice
Knotroot Foxtail
Large Crabgrass and Southern Crabgrass
Little Barley
Nimblewill
Orchardgrass
Purple Nutsedge
Purple Sedge (Saw Sedge)
Rock Fingergrass
Slender Rush (Path Rush)
Smallflowered Alexandergrass
Smooth Crabgrass
Smutgrass
Southern Sandbur (Southern Sandspur)
Sprangletop
Spreading Dayflower
Spring Starflower
Star-of-Bethlehem
Surinam Sedge
Sweet Vernalgrass
Texas Sedge
Thin Paspalum (Bull Paspalum)
Torpedograss
Tropical Crabgrass
Vaseygrass
Wild Garlic
Yellow Nutsedge (Yellow Nutgrass)