Located in Charlotte, NC. My front yard has been overtaken by this but it's not in my side or back yard. It is almost as prevalent as my grass this year.
Sadly, there’s no selective herbicides that would kill it. But fortunately, it doesn’t spread with rhizomes or stolons, and as you’ve found out, it has a pretty weak root system… So pulling it is the best course of action.
It also needs to get pretty tall in order to produce seeds, so all of those seeds came from somewhere outside of your lawn. Cheap seed mixes would be one possibility, but usually when you see this much, it means you’ve got orchardgrass growing in an unmanaged area nearby… So look around for that. It’ll be just like this, except bigger, probably 1.5-2 feet tall. Though this time of year it may be collapsed and brown still.
Its easier to find orchardgrass in late summer. Its seed heads stand high above the grass and big and fluffy, very conspicuous.
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That is orchardgrass.
Sadly, there’s no selective herbicides that would kill it. But fortunately, it doesn’t spread with rhizomes or stolons, and as you’ve found out, it has a pretty weak root system… So pulling it is the best course of action.
It also needs to get pretty tall in order to produce seeds, so all of those seeds came from somewhere outside of your lawn. Cheap seed mixes would be one possibility, but usually when you see this much, it means you’ve got orchardgrass growing in an unmanaged area nearby… So look around for that. It’ll be just like this, except bigger, probably 1.5-2 feet tall. Though this time of year it may be collapsed and brown still.
Its easier to find orchardgrass in late summer. Its seed heads stand high above the grass and big and fluffy, very conspicuous.