Prostrate knotweed
Botanical name: Polygonum aviculare
Common family name: Buckwheat or Smartweed
Family name: Polygonaceae
WSSA code: POLAV
US code: POAV
Weed Identification and Control Methods
Type: Broadleaf
Growth habit: Forb/Herb
Life cycle: Annual
Annual: Summer
- 2,4-D, 2-way or 3-way combo POST
- Carfentrazone, 2-way or 3-way combo POST
- Citrus oil (d-limonene) POST
- Clopyralid POST
- Dicamba POST
- Dithiopyr PRE EPO
- Glyphosate NSPOST
- Iron HEDTA POST
- MCPP POST
- Pelargonic acid POST
- Pendimethalin PRE
- Potassium salts of fatty acids POST
- Trifluralin PRE
- 2-Phenethyl propionate POST
- Cinnamon POST
- Cinnamon oil POST
- Citric acid POST
- Citric acid, malic acid, and clove oil POST
- Cloves and clove oil POST
- Corn gluten meal PRE
- Eugenol POST
- Lemongrass oil POST