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HORRIBLE weed. Grows into a large vine. Little sprouts grow everywhere in and around our garden. They never stop appearing again, even when I think I pulled up every single one.
A backyard in a suburban neighborhood
Spotted on Jun 14, 2012
Submitted on Jun 15, 2012
4 Comments
None of them ever reached the flowing stage. Our yard has been completely redone now, so I guess I'll never know what it was exactly.
Do you know flower color? How big they were? It's quite had to ascertain just which species it could be by looking at a baby plant.
A few suggestions could be Ipomoea tricolor, Ipomoea purpurea, Ipomoea hederacea, Ipomoea hederacea var. integriuscula, Ipomoea cordatotriloba, or Ipomoea triloba. It could also be even another, but I find these the most common.
Really?!?!?!? This is the most terrible weed in our yard, I think I have mostly eradicated it after a year but it was extremely difficult...I'd pull 50 of the sprouts up and then think I was done, and then I'd keep finding more and more..
It's a morning glory sp.