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Purple Dead-nettle
(Red Dead-nettle)
Lamium purpureum
Winter annual.
Family: Mint (Lamiaceae)
• Where found: roadsides, waste places, gardens
• Height: 4-12 inches
• Flower size: 1/4 inch long
• Flower color: lavender
• Flowering time: April to October |

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Spotted Spurge
Euphorbia maculata
Life cycle: Summer Annual
Spotted
spurge if found throughout the eastern half of the United States and also in
California and Oregon. This plant primarily occurs as a weed of landscapes,
nurseries, turfgrass, lawns, and some agronomic crops. |

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Purslane
Portulaca oleracea
Life Cycle: Warm season annual.
It can be a severe weed pest in vegetable crops
and newly seeded turf. |

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Mock Strawberry
Duchesnea indica |

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Speedwell Persian
Veronica persica
A
winter annual with small, light blue and white flowers and oval or round
hairy leaves with round teeth.
Look a like - Creeping Speedwell
Veronica repens
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'Poison ivy'. Rhus radicans, syn.
Toxicodendron radicans aka Poison creeper, three-leafed ivy.
The leaves, stems, roots and berries contain a resin that
causes serious allergic reaction (severe skin rash, blisters inflammation
and itching) in about 80 percent of people that contact this plant in any
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Physical control: Hoe or pull out
and remove plant debris. Use mulch in landscaped areas.
Maintain a well-watered, properly fertilized and thick lawn to prevent these
weeds from taken a hold in your grass. Do not cut the grass too short.
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