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It really looks like nut sedge. You can tell if you pull some up by the roots, it will have a little dark ball or nutlet. They have little tubers and grow on rhizomes. If that's what it is, you have a difficult weed to get rid of. If you miss any of the roots or drop off any of the nuts- they'll be baaaaaaaaack! The nut sedges look a lot like grasses but belong to a completely different family, the sedge family. Sedges have non-jointed, triangular stems with leaves borne in whorls of three; grasses have round, jointed stems with leaves borne in pairs.

Yellow nutsedge has shiny, yellow-green, v-shaped leaves that arise from the ground in groups of three. In the lawn it grows twice as fast as the fastest growing lawn grass, always sticking above the rest of the turf. If allowed to reach maturity it is about 18 inches tall when it produces a topknot of yellowish, apetalous flowers arranged in an umbrella like inflorescence. Two weeks after flowering, viable seeds are produced. In one study, about 1 percent of the seeds produced resulted in established plants, which doesn’t sound too bad until you realize thousands of seeds are produced.

http://www.gov.ns.ca/agri/rir/weeds/nutsedg.shtml

jennefer

The plant in your photo is the Asclepias curassavica or Tropical Milkweed growing in the Neotropics.It is an evergreen perennial 3-4 ft subshrub,much loved by butterflies, bees and wasps.All Milkweeds are poisonous when ingested. The milky sap is a skin irritant.

srmm

That is liriope (not sure that is correct spelling), commonly called "monkey Grass". Later, it will put out tall purple flower stalks similar to hostas. Another variety is yellow AND green and is called variagated liriope (or variagated monkey grass). It is commonly used as a ground cover and as border plants.