And how do I kill it? It's taking over my yard!

3/29/2007 7:36:10 PM

[obligatory you have AIDS now comment]

3/29/2007 7:40:33 PM

i was gonna say catnip or lemon balm but i don't think their leaves are arranged in rows like that

3/29/2007 7:58:53 PM

roundup

weed & feed

pull it out

3/29/2007 8:08:01 PM

or maybe even a mint....they all look pretty similar and like to spread out

[Edited on March 29, 2007 at 8:09 PM. Reason : crush and smell it]

3/29/2007 8:09:16 PM

rape

3/29/2007 8:10:43 PM

some of those grow in my yard. I've seen them along river banks. Perhaps they like moist conditions. I just mow them. They seem to be just spring-type weeds but who knows.

3/29/2007 9:58:58 PM

marijuana

3/29/2007 10:06:50 PM

Its mint. And round up will kill it.

3/29/2007 10:09:06 PM

Mint. Don't kill it, make mojitos.

3/29/2007 11:00:06 PM

this is mint

3/30/2007 12:32:53 AM

^ thank you.

the plant in question doens't look like mint, however: everything in the mint family (peppermint, spearamint) have squarish stems.

if you want to check if it's mint, that's easy enough...

3/30/2007 12:36:08 AM

unless the OP is fucking retarded, it's not mint

3/30/2007 1:08:58 AM

it looks like a purple deadnettle thats not flowering, its a Lamium sp.

mint family of course, squarish stem, decussate leaf arrangement are dead giveaways even without flowers

[Edited on March 30, 2007 at 2:05 AM. Reason : g]

3/30/2007 2:02:39 AM

wait so mint get to be like freaking trees?...its not like a regular like soft type plant?

that one pic has one that looks like it has branches

[Edited on March 30, 2007 at 3:43 AM. Reason : just curious cause i cant have like as many as i got in my pot]

3/30/2007 3:42:48 AM

go get a herbicide that contains a chemical called 2,4-D. it'll kill the weeds in your yard without killing your grass.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2,4-D

3/30/2007 7:44:54 AM

^^No, it doesn't get huge. You're cool, as long as there's some breathing room in there.

3/30/2007 9:14:36 AM

go to lowes, they have a weed book with a picture of most types of weeds and exactly which brand of weed killer to use on it (most of the time they recommend the bayer weed killer).

3/30/2007 9:56:47 AM

^^^^no mint is actually rather small, but they spread like crazy so are best in pots. They grow to maybe 1-2 feet in height. Just cut them back halfway and they will grow more leaves. They will come back the next year too if you leave the pots be.

3/30/2007 3:52:54 PM

Ok i was wrong. It's not mint. I was mowing my moms grass today and she has this shit all in her backyard. She also has mint on the side of the house that she planted a few years back. In the picture it looks a lot like mint but once I was able to look at the stuff in her backyard it looked different than her mint on the side.

3/31/2007 6:24:45 PM

I'm moderately curious, too, because every place in NC I've ever lived has had this in the yard

3/31/2007 6:37:24 PM

yeh it is in the mint family, but not mint.

3/31/2007 7:27:35 PM

dammit i told yall what it is

Quote :

"it looks like a purple deadnettle thats not flowering, its a Lamium sp. mint family of course, squarish stem, decussate leaf arrangement are dead giveaways even without flowers"

IT IS A DEAD NETTLE I CANT REMEMBER THE EPITHET BUT I KNOW ITS GENUS

no one fuckin listens to me because im black

[Edited on March 31, 2007 at 8:14 PM. Reason : d]

3/31/2007 8:12:41 PM

^

I'm not a noob if that's what you mean.

3/31/2007 8:26:08 PM

Why not just break off a pice and SNIFF it. If it's mint, it'd smell like mint.

and he's right:



[Edited on April 1, 2007 at 11:57 AM. Reason : adding]

4/1/2007 11:55:42 AM