SERICEA-LESPEDEZA (LESPEDEZA-CUNEATA) CONTROL WITH SELECTED POSTEMERGENCE HERBICIDES

Field experiments were conducted in the summers of 1988 and 1989 to evaluate sericea lespedeza control with POST herbicides. Triclopyr, picloram, 2,4-D, metsulfuron, dicamba, and selected herbicide mixtures were evaluated in 1988 and 1989. Clopyralid was evaluated in 1988 and fluroxypyr in 1989. Triclopyr at 0.56 and 1.12 kg ha-1 controlled sericea lespedeza both years. Fluroxypyr at 0.56 kg ha-1 also controlled sericea lespedeza. Control with picloram and metsulfuron was variable. Other treatments evaluated did not control sericea lespedeza.