Dandelions
The dandelion is the most common broadleaf weed in lawns.
It is a perennial, which means the same plant lives from year to year.
It flowers in the spring, when conditions are just warming up (around the end of April up here). Once it goes to seed, it tends to go dormant in the summer, unless the summer is cool and rainy, in which case, it may flower again.
The seeds it produces in the spring will germinate in the fall and they’ll grow rapidly until the first frost.
They’ll wake up in early spring and flower.
