Category: Weed Identification

English ivy shrugs off quick fixes. Here's how to get rid of English ivy on trees, walls and groundcover beds, which herbicides research supports, and the best time to act.

Poison ivy has three leaflets and hairy aerial roots; Virginia creeper has five leaflets and disc-tipped tendrils. Here's how to tell them apart in every season, what each does to skin and pets, and...

Wild garlic has round, hollow leaves; wild onion has flat, solid ones. Here's how to confirm the ID in a minute and time lawn-safe treatments to finally kill the bulbs.

Hairy bittercress sprouts in fall, hides as a flat rosette all winter, then fires its seeds feet away in spring. Here's how to identify it and the timing that actually stops it.

Wild violets shrug off most lawn weed killers. Here is how to confirm the ID, why fall triclopyr or fluroxypyr works best, and how to keep them from coming back.

Henbit germinates in fall and flowers in spring. Identify it by its clasping leaves, then pull, mulch or spray in fall for the best control window.