Need help with plant id

[Nemi]

This is growing low and spread out. I can see some small white flowers starting to bloom.

[rainbowgardener]

Since you haven't gotten any takers on this or your other ID request here,

https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/vi ... 52&t=59057

I would post a couple more pics of each. Your close ups are very good, but it helps to also have one from farther back to show the whole shape and structure of the plant.

Tell us whatever you can about them - size (it can help to put an object in the picture with them that people recognize, like a soda can or whatever, to give scale), are they in sun or shade, etc.

Hopefully that will not only bump your post (put it at the front of the line again) but give a few more clues so someone will be able to help you.

[catgrass]

I think this is a weedy grass-I can't remember the name right now-but alligator grass comes to mind, but I don't think that's a real name, just what people around here call it.

[rainbowgardener]

??

Did you click on the picture and look at it bigger? It doesn't look in the slightest grassy to me - broad leaves and little berries.

but thanks for trying. As we keep posting it will keep more people looking at it.

[MarcP2]

I think alligator "grass" is also called alligator weed. Try comparing it to Alternanthera philoxeroides to see if you have a match.

[rainbowgardener]

https://www.pittwater.nsw.gov.au/__data/ ... rpatch.jpg

alligator weed is an aquatic, found in water https://www.pittwater.nsw.gov.au/environ ... gator_weed

I doubt it would be in anyone's yard.

[MarcP2]

Good point, rainbowgardener. Plus the leaves almost look succulent, don't they?

[Nemi]

maybe this is a better pic

[Nemi]

Better close up

[Nemi]

One more

[rainbowgardener]

better, but the last one is a little confusing. I take it the big yellow flowers are not part of the plant you want ID'd, which seems to have little white flowers?

[purpleinopp]

Compare to Diodia.

[catgrass]

Was confused-I do have alligator grass growing in my yard-no, I don't live in the water, but do have a very wet yard a lot of times. I'm thinking Virginia button weed-if so-it is very, very, very hard to get rid of. You might try "Scott.com". They have a weed identification chart.

[purpleinopp]

Buttonweed is a common name for Diodia virginiana. It's a native to the US. There are other native Diodias, and some that are exotic.

[Lindsaylew82]

Pre-emergents like corn gluten, when properly timed in the spring, will control them by prevent the seeds from germination.