Anniekay
Well-known member
- Location
- Quitman, Ga.
- Hardiness zone
- 9a
The clover shaped leaves are the leaves of this plant. This I consider a weed because it's all over my yard wherever it's semi shady. I let it grow in corners here and there because it's pretty, but it gets mowed over in the lawn.
People here call it "rattlesnake weed" presumably because there is a tan acorn shaped nut at the root that resembles a nut with hairy fibers on it. That nut grows kind of a shaft with smaller little nuts along it and this does " slightly" resemble a rattlesnake's rattle. To remove it you must dig way down under it and dispose of the root and soil. Otherwise, if you just pull it up after loosening it, all the little nuts fall off back into the soil.
Can anyone name it?