Weed id ...

[Jogeephus]

Anyone know what this is? All I know is it kinda looks like a geranium, its cold hardy, slippery to slimy if you pull on it and the cows don't eat it.

 

[dun]

If it's a smallish prstrate type of plant it sure looks like henbit.
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=LAAM

 

[Beefy]

it does look like a geranium! the cows probably think its a geranium and wont eat it, lol. i hate the way geraniums smell! did you crush a leaf to see how it smelt?

i believe it might be common mallow or something similar.
http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/malne.htm
http://www.turf.uiuc.edu/weed_web/looka ... violet.htm

 

[Jogeephus]

Thanks. I believe it must be ground mallow. We have marsh mallow but I've never seen this before. It is perenial. Haven't crushed a leaf but have crushed a stem and its very slipperly. Cows don't want anything to do with it and have no idea where it came from. Shame I can't cross it with clover.

 

[ALX.]

The stuff is all over here, you did say it was cold hardy!

http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/cro ... rt04a5.htm

 

[Jogeephus]

The stuff is all over here, you did say it was cold hardy!

http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/cro ... rt04a5.htm

Yes, its cold hardy. I just took the picture. Never seen it, or can't remember ever seeing it before. I got four clumps of it. Don't know where it came from. I'll be able to spot spray the clumbs with no problem. Just wondering how big a problem it would become if left untreated. Sounds like I need to get it now. Thanks folks.

 

[dun]

Never would have thought of Malva this time of year. Around her it;s an early summer plant that can persist into the heat of summer. When I was a kid we called it wild geranium or button weed.

 

[TEhayandcattle]

I'm in South Texas and that junk is all over my pen and watering areas it gets pretty big in spring and fall, Grazon P+D gets it and keeps it out of the pastures. Birds must eat the seeds and plant them when they water.