I am in Southern Colorado 6a. The pictures are of two different plants that I think are a type of clover but not Dutch white and I thought y’all might be the best place to ask.
aagent888
The last one looks like yellow oxalis or maybe a different oxalis. The ones in my yard produce yellow flowers and aren’t the most vigorous spreaders but relatively hardy where they do pop out.
MrSticky_
First one feels like alfalfa. I don’t know that it is, but it sure feels like it….
glue_object
Not certain from the photos but the first is giving black medick (Medicago) vibes. If it only tap roots and doesn’t root from its spreading prostrate creepers, has yellow pom pom flowers, and is found in a section of lawn that’s not doing too hot then that is the answer. Really need to see a mature or flowering specimen to tell and rule out alfalfa, yellow sweet clover, and other weeds.
The second I will not pretend to know, but looks very much of the genus Trifolium. Oxalis would have two distinct lobes per leaflet. Not likely dutch white, lacking the white pattern within the leaflets.
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Gilvadt
Have a ton of this my yard. It’s called black medic/hop clover/ yellow trefoil.
Edit: the first few pics are medic, the other looks like it could be a native(to you) clover.
banjosomers
For the record I am calling them clover because the lawn care sub thinks they are lol.
Altruistic-Ice-2757
Burr clover. It has little yellow flowers that turn into burrs that gets stuck in your pet’s fur
a_jormagurdr
It would be easier to ID if you left them to flower. However to me it seems like the first is Medicago as others have said. The second one looks like its a true clover, Trifolium, but not sure what species. There are a lot of clover species.
It doesnt look like oxalis. Oxalis is not that fuzzy
WA2NE
I don’t think it’s black medic, but I don’t know what it is.
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I am in Southern Colorado 6a. The pictures are of two different plants that I think are a type of clover but not Dutch white and I thought y’all might be the best place to ask.
The last one looks like yellow oxalis or maybe a different oxalis. The ones in my yard produce yellow flowers and aren’t the most vigorous spreaders but relatively hardy where they do pop out.
First one feels like alfalfa. I don’t know that it is, but it sure feels like it….
Not certain from the photos but the first is giving black medick (Medicago) vibes. If it only tap roots and doesn’t root from its spreading prostrate creepers, has yellow pom pom flowers, and is found in a section of lawn that’s not doing too hot then that is the answer. Really need to see a mature or flowering specimen to tell and rule out alfalfa, yellow sweet clover, and other weeds.
The second I will not pretend to know, but looks very much of the genus Trifolium. Oxalis would have two distinct lobes per leaflet. Not likely dutch white, lacking the white pattern within the leaflets.
Edited.
Have a ton of this my yard. It’s called black medic/hop clover/ yellow trefoil.
Edit: the first few pics are medic, the other looks like it could be a native(to you) clover.
For the record I am calling them clover because the lawn care sub thinks they are lol.
Burr clover. It has little yellow flowers that turn into burrs that gets stuck in your pet’s fur
It would be easier to ID if you left them to flower. However to me it seems like the first is Medicago as others have said. The second one looks like its a true clover, Trifolium, but not sure what species. There are a lot of clover species.
It doesnt look like oxalis. Oxalis is not that fuzzy
I don’t think it’s black medic, but I don’t know what it is.