"Gae Xavier" wrote in message
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| I agree. I think it is probably chickweed.
|
| St. Augustine goes to sleep a bit during the winter and a lot of
strange "weeds"
| appear sprinkled throughout. But as soon as the sun and heat hit it
again in
| March, it takes off like crazy and strangles everything that grew
into it during
| the winter. So unless you have nothing to do this winter, do not
bother to weed
| your yard until next spring, then if any weeds are left.
|
| The little wild onions and rain lilies usually survive its strangle
hold and look
| cute with their tiny flowers, but the chickweed and others bite the
dust.
|
| animaux wrote:
|
| On Fri, 24 Jan 2003 19:58:45 GMT, "Texensis"

| wrote:
|
| sion.
| |
| | this is what purslane looks like:
| |
| | http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/porol.htm
|
| The bottom pic is an especially good one for the weed, though
it's not
| great for scale.
|
|
| Oh, the description gives inches, and description. I guess the
bottom photo I'd
| say was about 7 inches for the longest stem. The plant can get
larger, even the
| uncultivated form. Either way, I don't think it looks anything
like what the
| original poster's weed was. That weed looked like chickweed to
me.

I've got a bad monitor right now. All that I could see was that it was
a sprawly item.
|