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Help with lawn weed ID please?

AcuwellAcuwell Posts: 87
in Problem solving
Hello (again), we have yet another invasive weed in our lawn (along with the Yarrow!), picture attached.  Does anyone know what it is and how to treat it.  It has long white roots which are quite shallow and long hairs on its leaves, and grows quite flat to the lawn.

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  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Looks like buddleia?
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Acuwell Could it be a plant in the border that has seeded into the lawn?
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • AcuwellAcuwell Posts: 87
    Hi No there are no borders in the front garden, purely grass, and it is spreading.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Is there a chance of more photos, showing the stem and how the leaves attach?

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    Not buddleia. I've had that weed in my lawn before, low growing and creeping, but can't remember it's name. I'm not too bothered about weeds in my lawn though, cheaper, easier, greener.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • AcuwellAcuwell Posts: 87
    Ha ha thanks Busy-Lizzie - I know what you mean but our next door neighbour's lawn is weed free (thanks to years of pulling weeds by hand) and ours is encroaching.....
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    I just wonderd if it could be a type of Knapweed but a long shot I think.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    Is it the same as this?
    https://forum.gardenersworld.com/discussion/1027143/what-weed-is-this-please
  • thevictorianthevictorian Posts: 1,279
    It looks like fox and cubs to me. I didn't know until I looked at the above link that mouse ear hawkweed was what people called the yellow form (fox and cubs has orange flowers), we'd always called them both fox and cubs.
    I don't think you will be able to tell the difference unless you let it flower. I like it and it's welcome but it can spread very fast both by runners and seed.
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