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bindweed

• botanischer Name: Convolvulus arvensis
• Height of growth: creeping on the ground, climber
• Soil: fresh to moderately dry, rich in nutrients, rich in bases; humus-poor loam or clay soils
• Flower: funnel-shaped, soft pink to bluish
• Flowering period: June to September
• Leaf shape: oblong with a point and two corners
• Leaf color: medium green
• Distribution: rhizome (sprout formation, offshoots); circular movements at the tip of the shoot
• Control : dig up with a digging fork and weed puller, since the roots are very long, complete removal is almost impossible

Thread Speedwell

• botanischer Name: Veronica filiformis
• Height of growth: Creeping on the ground, stems up to 50 centimeters long
• Soil: fresh, nutritious, low in lime, humic, sandy or loamy
• Flower: supporting leaves of the flowers resemble deciduous leaves; 3 petals pale blue with darker stripes, 1 petal white to light bluish
• Flowering time: March to June
• Leaves: stalked leaves, rounded (up to 15 millimeters), opposite on flowering stems, alternate on non-flowering stems
• Leaf color: medium green
• Distribution: Creeping sprouts lying on the lawn
• Control: complete elimination is also almost impossible here, push back the stock by regular scarifying

Gundermann

• botanischer Name: Glechoma hederacea
• Synonyms: real gondola vine, goundel vine, earth ivy
• Growth height: up to 30 centimeters (stem with a square cross-section)
• Soil: moist, heavy, fertile, calcareous, does not tolerate salt
• Flowers: two to five-flowered inflorescences on the axils of the leaves; hairy bracts, calyx bluish-violet in colour
• Flowering time: April to June or July
• Leaves: Evergreen, underside of leaves tinged purple, arranged in a decussate manner, rounded, roughly notched leaf margin
• Leaf color: medium green
• Distribution: creeping shoots (stolons) on the lawn, side shoots every 8 to 15 centimetres, root formation at the nodes, main shoot with a length of up to 200 centimetres
• Control: belongs to the shallow roots, remove manually with weed cutter or by hand

Little Brownie

• botanischer Name: Prunella vulgaris
• Synonyms: common prunella, common prunella
• Height of growth: 5 to 30 centimeters (sparsely hairy stem)
• Soil: semi-dry grass, crawling and stepping grass, damp meadows
• Flower: Inflorescence up to four centimeters long immediately above the last pair of leaves; calyx with blue-purple petals (7 to 15 millimeters); Calyx lower lip with white teeth
• Flowering period: June to October
• Leaf: elliptical to ovate, entire or notched margin, arranged opposite
  Leaf colour: medium green
• Distribution: root-forming, above-ground runners
• Control: Mow the lawn before flowering to prevent seed spread

Creeping cinquefoil

• botanischer Name: Potentilla reptans
• Synonyms: Creeping goose, Creeping goosefoot
• Height of growth: creeping stems with a length of 30 to 100 centimeters
• Soil: rich in nitrogen
• Flowers: fivefold flowers, yellow petals, diameter: 17 to 20 millimeters, stalk towers over most of the leaves,
• Flowering period: June to August
• Leaf: stalked leaves, five-fingered (name), toothed edge
• Leaf color: medium green
• Distribution: Stems creeping along the lawn with root formation at the nodes
• Control: Very difficult to control due to long roots, flowers and leaves can be used for consumption

Creeping buttercup

• botanischer Name: Ranunculus repens
• Growth height: 10 to 50 centimeters
• Soil: occasionally moist, stony, humus-containing or raw clay and loam soil; compacted soils
• Flowers: golden yellow, shiny, diameter: 2 to 3 centimetres, arise from the leaf axils
• Flowering period: May to August
• Leaf: threefold pinnate, irregularly toothed
• Leaf color: medium green
• Distribution: creeping stolons with rooting at the nodes
• Combat: the long-term solution is to remove the top layer of soil and thus to sow a new lawn

white clover

• botanischer Name: Trifolium repens
• Synonyms: creeping clover
• Growth height: 5 to 20 centimeters
• Soil: nutrient-rich, calcareous, moist
• Flowers: Capitate inflorescences with 40 to 80 individual white flowers
• Flowering period: May to October
• Leaf: elliptical to obovate, leaf stalk up to 20 centimeters, leaf blade pinnate, leaf margin finely toothed,
• Leaf color: fresh green, often light transverse band
• Distribution: bare, creeping stem (5 to 30 centimeters), rooting at the nodes, roots up to 70 centimeters deep
• Control: cut out or scarify

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field horsetail

• botanischer Name: Equisetum arvense
• Synonyms: horsetail, field horsetail, cat tail, ponytail, sheep hay, pan butzer, scouring herb
• Growth height: 10 to 50 centimeters (sterile foliage shoots), 5 to 20 centimeters (fertile shoots)
• Soil: indicator plant for compaction and waterlogging
• sterile foliage shoots (appear in May): below the tip, plentifully and regularly whorled; simple, ascending, deciduous branches; 6 to 20 ribs on the stem
• Fertile shoots (March to early May): appear before the sterile shoots, die after dusting, light brown with four to six sheaths, no branches, spikes one to four centimeters long
• Distribution: rhizomes up to 1.60 meters deep, underground runners
• Control: loosen the soil, avoid waterlogging and compaction

Common goutweed

• botanical name: Aegopodium podagraria
• Synonyms: goutweed
• growth height: 30 to 100 centimeters; bare stem with angular furrows
• Soil: fresh, rich in nutrients, rich in bases, loose, deep, mildly to moderately acidic, humic; clay and loam soils
• Flowers: Inflorescence in two umbels with flat rays (12 to 25), white, inconspicuous individual flowers
• Flowering period: June to July
• Leaf: ovate to elongated (reminiscent of goat’s foot), petiole, jagged edge, hairy underside, arranged alternately
• Leaf color: blue-green to medium green
• Distribution: underground, proliferating rhizome (white runners with a minimum length of 20 centimetres), root depth up to 50 centimetres
• Control: cut off light supply, cut off flowers before seed ripening, also suitable as a vegetable

Horn Wood Sorrel

• botanischer Name: Oxalis corniculata
• Synonyms: horned sorrel, horn-fruited sorrel
• Growth height: about 20 centimeters
• Soil: no special requirements
• Flowers: umbel-like inflorescence with few individual flowers; five hairy, greenish sepals; five yellow petals
• Flowering period: May to October
• Leaf: alternate, three-part fingered, reverse heart-shaped
• Leaf color: often tinged with reddish brown
• Distribution: main shoot with side shoots (10 to 40 centimeters); root formation at the nodes
• Control: prevent creeping weeds from growing by mowing regularly, fertilize with horn meal

creeping couch grass

• botanischer Name: Elymus repens
• Synonyms: couch grass, couch grass, couch grass
• Height of growth: 50 to 120 centimeters (culms at the nodes or at the end of the foothills)
• Soil: nutrient-rich, nitrogen-rich, but also nutrient-poor soils
• Flower: spiked inflorescences with a length of 5 to 20 centimeters
• Flowering period: June to August
• Culms: glabrous, erect or bent down, three to five nodes
• foliage leaves: flat ribbed, rough on top
• Leaf color: green
• Distribution: runner-forming rhizome (soil depth: two to eight centimetres; roots up to 80 centimetres); annual new growth between 30 and 100 centimeters
• Combat: Clear the lawn and remove rhizomes and above-ground plants by hand, then also remove deeper roots with the digging fork

crawling bugle

• botanischer Name: Ajuga reptans
• growth height: 10 to 30 centimeters; erect, square stem; red-purple below, hairy on top
• Soil: fresh, nutritious, neutral to moderately acidic, humic; clay soils
• Flowers: three to six inflorescences on lateral false whorls; Corollas usually blue, but also pink or white (rarely)
• Flowering time: April to June
• Leaves: basal rosettes, opposite on the stem, ovate, stalked, shiny surface
• Leaf color: medium green
• Distribution: stoloniferous rhizome with root formation at the nodes
• Control: the entire root must be removed, combat in good time as soon as creeping weeds are in sight