Pic below.Close up in freshly mowed lawn. Very strong smelling like Lysol. The closest thing I have found online is an invasive species called Garlic Mustard. Whatever it is I dont know how to kill it without taking out the grass too. Have tried regular weed killers with no effect. Anybody know what I’m dealing with and the best way to destroy it?
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Looks like creeping Charlie to me.
Looks like creeping Charlie to me.
That’s what I would say. Garlic mustard is a 2-4ft tall plant that grows in more woody areas, spreads like crazy. Pull it if you can. Some actually pick it and cook with i for a garlic taste.
2-4d is the probably the best unless you want to round up everything and re plant. Which you may have to re seed spots anyway as you will have bare spots once it dies.
If the weed killers you bought had 2-4d in it,it might not have been strong enough? You may need to buy a quart of concentrate and mix it as strong as the legal rate goes, or something.
Now that I think of it, I wonder if creeping charlie is in my dad’s yard; said he had a weed that wasn’t dying, I never looked at it.
Looks like creeping Charlie to me.
X2. Make sure your weed control has Dicamba in it. Spray them in the Fall when they’re most actively growing, if you spray during the Summer it may take a few doses. Keep sprayer a little higher too so that smaller droplets land and stick to the leaves.
Try ferti-lome Weed Free Zone. It can be bought at Bachman’s.I have used it for years. It won’t hurt the grass and will kill most weeds.
That’s it. Thanks guys!
There’s a borax mix you can mix up in sprayer, don’t know off the top of head I would google it.
Mint look a lot like that also. I have it all over and when I cut it the whole area smell like mint
Resistance is futile.
Wait, that’s not grass…? 
Guess if I killed the weeds I wouldn’t have any green on my dirt yard.
You guys must all be old married and board if your worried about your lawn
more fun to get rid of weeds this way !
greatest line ever about grass By Harmon Killebrew’s Dad.
Harmon and his brother were in the yard playing ball. Harmon’s Mom yelled out to the kids “Quit playing ball in the yard you’re ruining the grass” Killebrews Dad said “we’re raising kids not grass”
add a surfactant with your herbicide. The surfactant will eliminate the ability of the water to bead up. The water will then cover the entire leaf making the herbacide more effective. You only need a teaspoon or so per gallon. Hard to find. I got mine online. Prairie Restoration may have it. They always use it when they Spray. That’s How I found out about it. I definitely noticed a difference.
x2 on spraying in the fall. In the summer the plant is taking nutrients FROM the roots up to the leaves to propagate. In the fall with cooler temps the plants takes the energy from the leaves to the roots making the herbicide more effective in killing the plants roots
Some people claim that Dawn dish detergent works as a surfactant but It foams badly. Also rubbing alcohol should work but you would need much more it. Try adding a little to a glass of water and put some on a non stick pan to see if it beads. This is what I have…
Mint look a lot like that also. I have it all over and when I cut it the whole area smell like mint
Creeping charlie is related to mint.
Uncle, I believe…
We have lots of creeping charlie, it’s the worst.
We had a neighbor when I was a kid growing up by the same name. 
Wow, small world. 
Good luck with your problem, we still bear the scares from growing up with Creeping Charlie, now I wont sleep tonight.
Dicamba twice. Give it a treatment, wait 7 days, and treat again. Speedzone has worked well for me.
The best time to kill charlie s when it’s blooming the purple flower, in the spring..told to from a guy that’s is a garden ,lawn ,guru.
Creeping charlie’s…just pull’m and pull’m and pull’m. Strange though, I don’t see dandylion problem this year.
Harvest it! Great source of vitamin C according to Google.
Spring is the worst time to treat creeping Charlie. Anytime after August is best.
Killebrews Dad said “we’re raising kids not grass”
That’s a great line. And a great point. Thanks EPG for the reminder.
I just recently built and spent a significant amount of time putting in a nice looking lawn (with the help of Sticker from IDO) and its been fun to watch the planted stuff grow. I did some sod too.
Last night I mowed the planted part for the second time in both directions. I never mow in both directions! At my old place I had a daddilion garden for a yard and could careless about my lawn.
What is happening to me, I am becoming that GUY! I also have a little dude that loves to play. Play first, lawn second. I don’t want to become the “GET OFF MY LAWN YOU DANG KIDS” guy! Plus a perfect lawn is a giant waste of water. Well see how this all unfolds.
That’s about 75% of my lawn. Makes it easy to pick up dog poop, so I don’t attempt eradication…I may have shortened the life expectancy of my “Hank Hill” neighbor, but oh well…
Dicamba twice. Give it a treatment, wait 7 days, and treat again. Speedzone has worked well for me.
^That’s what I did after trying the dawn and borax method.
And I sprayed just past my property line. I think they call it “over spray”? 
I had that a few years ago. I have not used borax although I heard it work, but I used an ortho product
https://www.ortho.com/en-us/products/weed-control/ortho-weed-b-gon-chickweed-clover-oxalis-killer-lawns-ready-spray
One application and it killed about all of it.
And I sprayed just past my property line. I think they call it “over spray”?
Overspray, that’s what I claim while I stand IN the neighbors yard while eradicating the weeds in my lawn.- they come from there anyhow!
The best advice I ever got to kill that crap was from a Scotts rep. Mix one ounce of poison ivy and woody brush killer per gallon of water along with 3 ounces of my regular weed killer and apply only to the areas in need every 7 days for 4 weeks while it is actively growing. Apparently it spreads though runners and you have to weaken it to the point the runners cannot grow.
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