Tag Archives: Creeping Weeds

Creeping weeds are plants which reproduce themselves through creeping rhizomes and stolons. These growths spread out from the parent plant and start a new plant. They can creep along the surface or underneath the ground.

Creeping weeds in lawns

A single parent plant can produce a great number of new plants in a season. This is why creeping weeds are a difficult lawn weed to treat. A great many difficult to treat plants can appear quickly.

The most common creeping weed in the UK is the creeping buttercup. This can spread all over a lawn and be very troublesome.

Find out more about weeds which creep in a lawn in these blog pages.

Creeping buttercup (Ranunculus repens)

Creeping buttercups in grass

Creeping buttercup is a very common herbaceous perennial weed found on all types of lawns across England and which can quickly become on a problem on even well maintained lawns. The Latin name for creeping buttercup is Ranunculus repens. Ranunculus is the family name of buttercups, which literally translated means “little frog” referring to the trait in which most… Read More »

Field woodrush (luzula campestris)

Field Woodrush

Field Woodrush (Luzula campestris) is noticeable in a lawn in early spring. It can be easily seen as a patch of thicker-type grass, with hairy leaves that have tassel-like black and brown flowers protruding a couple of inches above the usual level of the lawn. Some folk also know it as Good Friday Grass or Sweeps Brush. It… Read More »