Goosegrass can rapidly take over your lawn and steal essential nutrients from your grass. Control its spread and protect your turf with a two-pronged approach. Goosegrass is a resilient weed that is increasingly difficult to control in golf course turf. A range of strategies is needed to be successful. (Dr. Matthew Elmore). Key Takeaways. Professional Help for GoosegrassControl. Because goosegrass is highly adaptable and spreads aggressively, a comprehensive weedcontrol program is often necessary. Although goosegrass may closely resemble crabgrass, there are some key distinguishing features that will help you to properly identify and treat the weed, which can often be difficult to control. Goosegrass is often confused with crabgrass because the two weeds look similar. Goosegrass is most easily identified by its whitish, flattened stem and prostrate growth habit. Goosegrass (Eleusine indica) is one of the most difficult weeds to manage in turf. It produces abundant seedheads below the mowing height, thrives in compacted soils and tolerates... Goosegrass. The summer annual weed grows in clumps, thriving in thin open turf and turf that’s subject to intense traffic or use. Weed Technology publishes on how weeds are managed, including work on herbicides, weed biology, new control technologies, and reports of new weed issues. Learn how to identify, control and prevent goosegrass.Control Difficulty: Difficult. Cultural Control: Avoid mowing your lawn too close as this weed thrives in thin, short turf. This herbicide is most effective in controllinggoosegrass and other summer annual grassweeds when mixed with a nonionic surfactant. Susceptible weeds turn white following Tenacity...
