Winter Annual Weeds ( part1)

Annual winter weeds germinate in the fall and winter and grow actively in spring. After they flower in spring they die and disappear for the summer only to return in fall or winter when new seeds germinate.

👉Deadnettle and Henbit
Deadnettle (Lamium purpureum) and henbit (Lamium amplexicaule) are often confused. These winter weeds are both in the mint family and have square stems with opposite leaves. Flowers appear in whorls in the leaf axis of upper leaves from March to May and are tube-like with 2 lips.
👉Common Chickweed
Common chickweed (Stellaria media) is a winter annual with a shallow fibrous root which grows in moist, cool shaded areas. Chickweed is found in turfgrass as well as nursery, cultivated horticultural, and agricultural crops.
👉Prickly Lettuce
Prickly lettuce (Lactuca serriola) is in the aster family. It can grow up to 5’ tall. Sometimes this winter weed can be a biennial. It has creamy yellow aster-like flowers. Several edible lettuces, such as crisphead, butterhead, cos, Romaine, loose leaf or bunching, and stem lettuce or celtuce were all derived from this species.
👉Persian speedwell
Persian speedwell (Veronica persica) is a winter annual with slender. In shaded areas it tends to grow more upright. The stems are covered with finely pointed, flattened hairs. The hairy leaf blades are oval to roundish with rounded teeth around the edges.
👉Horseweed
Horseweed or mare's tail (Conya canadensis) can grow to 6 1/2 ’ tall. Plant has a taproot. Small inconspicuous flower heads are at the top of the central stem. Flowers are about 1/4 inch in diameter, with white or slightly pink ray flowers. The fruit (or seed) is a 1/16 inch long achene that does not split open when it is ripe. It tapers from the apex with many small bristles that aid in wind dispersal. This plant is susceptible to aster yellows.

Those are some of the grasses that you may encounter in the winter in your yard.