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Sedge weed burrs. Courtesy of Flickr user born1945.

This is the fifth of 11 Tricks to Make Sure Your Grass Is Always Greener, a free eBook. We’ll be posting a new trick on this blog every other week.

If you see a rapidly spreading, aggressive weed that has spiky burrs at the top of its stem, you could be looking at a sedge weed. Other clues to look for: triangular stems and groups of three leaves.

Like grassy weeds, sedge weeds also resemble grass. You can spot the difference, though, because they grow faster than neighboring areas of regular grass. They will be higher than the rest of the lawn, sometimes by a few inches.

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This is the fourth of 11 Tricks to Make Sure Your Grass Is Always Greener, a free eBook. We’ll be posting a new trick on this blog every other week.

If you’re like most Florida homeowners, you will have a grassy weed in your lawn sooner or later. These weeds sort of look like grass, but they’re different. They don’t seem to match the rest of your lawn.

In Florida, crabgrass and goosegrass are common grassy weeds. They are difficult to identify, but have hollow, round stems and a single seed leaf. Their nodes – which may look like joints – are closed and hard to the touch. The leaves of grassy weeds will be longer than they are wide. That’s how they get the name “grassy” weed.

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