Likeweeds with purple flowers, weeds with white flowers are a mixed bag.
Some weeds with white flowers can actually improve your soilwhile others have pretty flowers.
Ahead, we help you identify tenweeds with white flowersand whether they’re worth keeping or removing.
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In fact, this bamboo-like plant was initially brought to North America from Japan as an ornamental.
Gardeners liked the flowers, which are also great for attracting pollinators.
It subsequently became one of theworst invasive plantson the continent.
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Its leaves are lance-shaped and grow in a clump.
It puts up a flower stalk with a cylinder-shaped flower head at the top.
Unlike Japanese knotweed, this plant is, at worst, a nuisance, not a major problem.
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Small white flowers growing in racemes precede the berries on this upright perennial.
Its leaves are light green and give off an unpleasant smell if crushed.
This biennial has a long, carrot-like taproot and is, in fact, related to carrots.
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To cut back on the spread, snip off the flower heads before they go to seed.
The plants can also be dug out by their taproots before they go to seed.
The leaves are heart-shaped, and their bloom time is spring.
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Remove the blooms by hand and regularly inspect your lawn to control the spread.
This perennial is easily identified by its 3-part leaf (rarely 4-part).
Clusters of small white flowers, which bloom in May and June, sit atop a flower stalk.
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For another aid in identification, feel the stems: they will have little hairs on just one side.
Use an herbicide to control the spread.
Its vigorous root system allows it to spread and to serve as an erosion-control plant.
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Jimson Weed
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Jimson weed blooms from late summer to mid-fall.
An identifying feature is the unpleasant odor given off by the foliage when it’s crushed.
The flowers yield to spikey, green (eventually turning brown) seedpods.
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