Landscape CDE – Weeds and Deficiencies By Yours Truly, Mrs. Ballard 2013 CDE

Do you recognize this holiday plant Do you recognize this holiday plant? Leaves are wider at apex that at base.

This is mistleoe It is a parasitic weed with simple leaves that lives in the top of trees.

Poison Ivy – look for 3 leaflets

Do not confuse it with Virginia Creeper – 5 leaflets

This is Wood Sorrel! It also has purple flowers!

Have you seen this? Spurge

Or this? Spurge!

This is Spurge!

Iron Deficiency – Interveinal chlorosis

Iron again – damage will be in new growth – INTERVEINAL CHLOROSIS

Classic example of iron deficiency

Nitrogen Deficiency – yellowing of lowers leaves first

Again, yellowing of lower leaves and new growth stays green

Nitrogen again, notice the green tips and yellow lower foliage

Magnesium Deficiency – Inverted “V” is a sure sign Magnesium Deficiency – Inverted “V” is a sure sign. It can look like iron so look for the V

Magnesium again – Do you see the V?

Mag again – notice that it is in the older growth, not new like iron

It looks like Clover but it is not! Remember this is Wood Sorrel

What is this?

Same thing, what is this? Air potato vine

Now, what is this?

And this, same as last slide Nutsedge!!

Look in your grass for this!

Got a buck? This is Dollar weed