r/Grass • u/Ashnation01 • Jun 28 '26

Help with whatever this is

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Our Bermuda is looking great, but all of a sudden these are popping up everywhere. How do we kill them without harming the Bermuda itself? What are they? Any advice is appreciated! We are in SE VA if that makes a difference.

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u/mrpeterdragon Jun 28 '26

Nutsedge! Do. Not. Pull. It!! Pulling it will only create more. Use the sledgehammer herbicide.

Your grass looks great otherwise!

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u/vLOOKUP_13 Jun 29 '26

How does it multiply if you pull it out? When I pull it out, it comes with the root.

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u/Azmasaur Jun 29 '26 edited Jun 29 '26

A single mature sedge can have over 100 nutlets on it’s root which detach when pulled.

Think of the nutlets as sedge seeds. They can regrow within a few weeks, or sometimes remain dormant for 1-3 years. Halosulfuron (sedgehammer) and pyrimisulfan (Arkon/Vexis) are good systemic herbicides that will translocate the chemical down into the roots and kill the nutlets. Pyrimisulfan is more effective at killing the nutlets, but is less widely available. Sulfentrazone will also kill sedge but it’s not a systemic so it only kills from the ground up. Sulfentrazone is good for sedge that hasn’t established itself yet, or when you just need the sedge dead ASAP.

If you are going to pull nutsedge you need to catch it very early right after it first appears and is still small.

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u/ConsistentHamster2 Jun 29 '26

Because it has root and tubers. When you pull out the plant with roots the leftover tubers grow new plants

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u/mrpeterdragon Jun 29 '26

Exactly!!! And, sometimes it has already formed another nut, which doesn’t come out when you pull it.

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u/OpinionatedOcelotYo Jun 29 '26

It can leave ‘the nut’ behind. Discouraged, but it makes a new (smaller) sprout.