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Rattlesnake weed

Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2021 10:43 pm
by River
Overtime this weed has spread out from around my blueberry bushes. Since it is a winter weed it is growing like crazy and we have had so much rain I can’t get a break to cut it down and bag it with the mower. I tried pulling up all I could from around the blueberry bushes last year and got a good bit of the roots and tubers but there is no beating it.

There is a large area where all the grass died overtime and the weeds have taken over. In the summer different weeds. I am not sure it is worth trying to use round up a couple of times and lay st Augustine down in the early spring

Has anyone had experience with a large area like this. Plus I would need to fence it off so my dog would stay out of it.

Re: Rattlesnake weed

Posted: Sun Dec 26, 2021 5:19 pm
by applestar
It didn’t sound familiar to me so I looked it up and it probably doesn’t grow (much) around here.

But searching the forum resulted in this thread —
Help identifying and killing this weed. - HelpfulGardener.com
viewtopic.php?t=66680

…identified in the subsequent discussion as rattlesnake grass / Florida Betony

Hopefully the discussion can help somewhat.