alanpollock
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Identify this weed ?

Hi I'm a totally ignorant gardener and I have a persistent weed in my lawn which grows in shady areas particulary around the conseravatory walls. It's slowly spreading and I would like to get rid of it.
Green Thumb treat the lawn four times a year but the guys who visit don't know what is is or how to get rid of it.
It has small, 1cm shiny leaves, no stems just a little bit of root attached directly to the leaves. It can climb up brickwork. See picture attached, please can anybody help ?
Hope the upload works !
Alan

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lorax
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Location: Ecuador, USDA Zone 13, at 10,000' of altitude

It looks like liverwort to me, at which point the things you do to get rid of "normal" weeds won't touch it - it's too primitive. Have you tried simply spraying it with white vinegar? That's what we use here when it tries to climb the adobe houses.

alanpollock
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Hi lorax

Thanks for the prompt reply - I shall try the vinegar trick - once we get a dry day! We have had so much cold rain in Scotland over the last few weeks the grass is just soggy.

Regards Alan

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lorax
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Do it in the rain, soggy be darned. It rarely dries out in the places that liverworts prefer to live, so you have to be a bit opportunistic - as in, "it's not pishing down in buckets, so I'll go spray the liverworts."



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