Yates Prickle Weedkiller - Concentrate
An effective selective weedkiller for the control of Onehunga weed prickles, and a number of other broadleaf weeds in grass lawns.
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What is Onehunga Weed?
Onehunga Weed - also known as Prickle Weed, Lawn Burweed, or Bindii in Australia - is an unpleasant, prickly pest in lawns. It's the weed that causes bare feet to resemble pin-cushions, detested by generations of kids!
It's an annual weed that forms small ferny rosettes about 20mm in diameter, in patches up to 40cm across. Seeds germinate in autumn, but the Onehunga weed doesn’t put on much growth until spring. Flowers are tiny and a greenish-yellow colour. By the middle of spring, each rosette of leaves has formed a flower head - unfortunately, this flower contains lots of ripening seeds with prickly spines on them. Seeds mature and drop from the plant in mid-summer. The spiny seeds are spread by foot traffic, or on the fur of animals.
The best time for control is when the plants are putting on their early flush of growth during spring: it's important to kill Onehunga weed before it flowers, to prevent the spiny seeds from forming.
Once the seed heads have formed, uptake of weedkillers is limited and control isn't usually very successful.
Areas Impacted
- Lawns
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