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Ten Types of Annoying Weeds

Teacher: Mr Sindlinger's Idiosyncratic Puzzles
Horizontales
It is a weed of the daisy family with bright yellow flowers followed by globular heads of seeds with downy tufts; its stems contain a milky latex.
It as bluish-green lobed leaves and bright yellow, star-shaped flowers. It seeds prolifically and therefore it should be removed with a fork at an early stage of its growth. Because of the toxins it produces, wear gloves when weeding it.
It has light purple flowerheads & spiky, wavy leaves, which are unpleasant to sit or walk on. Dig them out using some type of a fork.
This weed resembles a three-leaf clover topped with cheery yellow flowers. Plants are technically a perennial, but perform like a warm-season annual. Look for it in gravel areas, mulched beds, vegetable gardens—any location can host this aggressive weed!
It has kidney-shaped leaves when young that develop into rounded, serrated foliage. Similar to ground ivy, it bears blue-purplish flowers & spreads by underground and overground runners; kill it using a hoe.
Verticales
If you tend a lawn, you’ve probably fought it in some way. This annual grass tends to grow in ground-hugging clumps, but it sometimes forms upright stems.
This long and slender weed is a problem because it produces a large number of seeds that germinate almost immediately in 67-95 degree heat. These long plants easily stick to people's socks are can be quite annoying when that happens. Its characteristic long tail enables this weed to form dense competitive stands in almost any springtime and spring-sown crops.
These stickers are extremely durable as you well know if you've ever stepped on one with a bare foot; iin the right conditions these burrs can last upwards of 20 years! Typically, this vine-like weed can survive 3-7 years unless we go out of out way to eradicate it.
A low, spreading weed, it tends to pop up in driveway cracks, brick patios and gravel beds. Pink stems hug the ground and have milky, sticky sap. Wear gloves when pulling this weed to avoid sticky, dirt-covered fingers. Small green flowers and seeds form along stems at leaf bases. If you plan to hand-pull this weed, wait until plants are large enough to grab and soil is moist.
A summer weed in moister climates, it brings red stems and roots to the scene. The root is a taproot that’s easiest to pull when soil is wet and plants are young. Plants form stiff, prickly seed clusters at stem ends. Left alone, plants can soar to as much as 8 feet!