I know there's a ton of sedge questions on this sub but I'm at a loss. I sprayed these with sedgehammer last year with no results. This spring they're popping up in higher numbers now. I'm starting to question if this is even nutsedge? If so, any recommendations for larger area control rather than spot spraying with sedgehammer?
For context I'm in the transition zone 6/7 and completely killed and renovated with blue tag TTTF last fall in some poor new construction soil.
by StrangerNo6344
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It is not.
Doesn’t look like nutsedge to me. I’ll let somebody better at identifying say what it actually is, but I’m like 90% sure it’s not nutsedge. Also, at least where I am (southeast PA), nutsedge doesn’t tend to start up until around mid-late summer. Not sure if that’s a rule or not, but seems pretty early for it if you’re indeed in the northern US.
It’s a little early for sedges
100% not a sedge.
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One of my favorite names for a herbicide!! And I HATE🤬 nutsedge!!!
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Agree with others that this doesn’t look to be nutsesge. Looks more like a grassy weed (maybe canary grass)?
If so, good luck, if pulling try to get the entire root. Hard to kill discriminately without harming the surrounding grass. Can try to paint glyphosate after a fresh cut to see if that helps if the infestation is small.
Common in Florida
Not nut sedge, looks like quack grass, pull it out and see if there are rhizomes.
Due to clasping auricles, I would say quackgrass is a good possibility. Difficult to chemically control, but there are some cultural practices that can help. If you go the chemical route, applying glyphosate directly to weed leaf can eliminate it without hurting the nearby grass. I have used [these scissors tools](http://www.nicegreenlawn.com) for this with good success last year. I’ve been using it to knockout some wild onion similarly this year. Takes about 5 seconds maybe per weed bunch, so you can do the math how long it would take you. There is also some paint pen like tool on amazon that I think others have recommended on here.
Nutsedge has a triangular base. That looks to be round.
Sedges have edges. If you roll I’ll in between your fingers you would feel the edges. This is 100% not nutsedge.
It’s really hard to ID grassy weeds, use the[ VT Weed ID Tool](https://weedid.cals.vt.edu/). Better pray its not Poa Triv, because if it is, gg.
Here is one of the bigger chunks of it. Hard to tell in the photo but there’s a purpleish root base
Not sedge.
Following. I think I had this in my yard for a while and it drove me crazy having it stand out from the rest of the yard. I finally just nuked it and killed spots of my yard. I must know what this is. Hope it doesn’t come back. Good luck bro 🤙
Nope
Definitely not Nutsedge. I’ve dealt with it and it’s way more invasive and bigger than that.
I tried sledgehammer on some stuff I thought was nutsedge. It did not kill it. I then sprayed it on some other stuff I thought was nut sedge. It yellowed and died very clearly. It was pretty impressive how well it worked. If it isn’t working, I’d wager it isn’t nutsedge.
That’s not Nutsedge
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First instinct was bromegrass. Some seed suppliers in the Midwest have it in small small quantities because they can’t get rid of it in their fields.