Thick Mats Of Weed Leaves
The home fires variety is a fragrant cultivar with hot pink blooms.
Thick mats of weed leaves. This weed grows quickly being classified as a weed due to its invasiveness yet it is technically a tree. Yet during winter it makes some brown fruits which many find ugly. It has flowers of different colors and can put on quite a display. They are actually fantastic plants to have in your lawn both of them have flowers.
A close up would help confirm but i believe i see white clover the mat forming one with oval leaves in clusters of three and a dandelion the sawtoothed spears. Has opposing leaves along the stems and runners and often seen with a darker spot in the middle of each leaf. Commonly referred to prostrate spurge creeping spurge and spotted spurge. Mature catchweed has stems up to 6 feet long and form dense and tangled mats over vegetation.
However if you are seeing some tall weeds with thick stalks and yellow flowers then it is likely not the paulownia since they do not flower in their first year nor do they have a variety that grows yellow flowers. While the early growth of giant salvinia can be quite small with leaves growing under 1cm in length mature mats are many layers thick and often require several consecutive treatments to be fully controlled. Slow acting systemic herbicides which are absorbed by the plant can be an effective solution for salvinia infestations. Flowers are small and greenish white on short branches.
Tufted creeping phlox phlox stolonifera is a north american native that prefers partial sun or shade and moist soil. When it matures paulownia grows into a lovely flowering tree. It has a thick and tall stalk and large flat green leaves. In early spring it produces small white or pink flowers.
The seed leaves are oblong to egg shaped with slightly notched tips lacking hairs and range from 1 2 to 1 inch.