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Diodia virginiana |
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| Common name |
large buttonweed |
| Family |
rubiaceae |
| Life cycle |
annual |
| Flowers |
white |
Although this member of the madder family occurs in Pennsylvania, I had not encountered it in our garden there, so I was unfamiliar with its bright little flowers until it showed up in the lawn of our new Houston garden. As weeds go, not unattractive – smooth elongated leaves along hairy trailing stems with four-petaled flowers followed by bulbous seed structures. But since it has designs on taking over the lawn, spreading rapidly by its lax rooting stems (and presumably also by seed), I have learned I need to be vigilant. Just mowing isn't enough to control it (it mostly ducks under the blades), so I find myself hand-pulling it where it gets too prolific.
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