- Location
- Hockley Essex
Weed identification
- Thread starter powerontheland
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Old Boar
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- Location
- West Wales
Rose bay willow herb?
Pilgrimmick
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- Location
- Argyll
The Boss thinks the same, I agree with whatever she says!
Old Boar
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- Location
- West Wales
I just pull it when young. When mature, even the brushcutter does not like it.
- Location
- Hockley Essex
Field scale infestation, far too much to pull.
- Location
- Hockley Essex
Definitely not willowherb, only grows to about 6 inches, stems go woody like Heather
Exfarmer
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- Location
- Bury St Edmunds
Could it be a garden escape, looks rather like phlox
What crop do you want to get it out of? Grass ley? Usually a strong SU like Ally Max will do it in approved cereals. It's not usually a problem in grassland depending on how it is managed. Cutting & grazing normally sorts it out. Not sure of herbicide options in grass. @ollie989898 ?
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- Location
- Hockley Essex
- Location
- Near Beeston Castle
Could be American Willowherb, they can be quite short.
It does look very much like a Willowherb to me, what colour flowers does it have and what do the seeds or seed pods look like?
It does look very much like a Willowherb to me, what colour flowers does it have and what do the seeds or seed pods look like?
primmiemoo
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- Location
- Devon
I tend to agree, and the picture in my Collins Complete British Wild Flowers shows the narrow, oval, toothed leaves, although says it grows "up to 50cm" ~ guessing that's height at flowering.
Pink flowers that look just like Rosebay willowherb except they're on single stems rather than the Rosebay pyramid of flowers.
SLA
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- Location
- Lincolnshire
There is something looks similar to that with yellow dead nettle type flowers but don’t know what it’s called sorry not much help!
ollie989898
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If you have some cimarron I would use that but failing that try Thrust? 2,4D seems to curl willowherb up?
Thinking about it triclopyr tends to be good on woody type weeds so pastor might be a good bet.
Thinking about it triclopyr tends to be good on woody type weeds so pastor might be a good bet.
- Location
- Hockley Essex
Lots of buttercuprtc in field also, can CIMMARON be used with envy?
Cimmaron label link. It's being withdrawn so buying it may take a bit of shopping around.
http://headland-ag.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=22
http://headland-ag.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=22
ollie989898
Member
Very grey area, Cimmaron was a one application per year limit from memory, I personally would not mix them. Decide which weed is most pressing and spray for that first, see what survives. In my experience cimarron is not massively effective on all broad leaved weeds as the dose rate compared to full blown Ally is much much reduced.
ollie989898
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I dont think it is full blown willowherb myself, its a very large plant normally, looks similar to that family, but the knapweeds look a lot narrower?
2wheels
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- Location
- aberdeenshire
is it nipplewort?
ollie989898
Member
Nipplewort has very distinctive leaves and forms a flat tea coaster of leaves before the central stem appears, its unmistakable.