Can anyone ID this plant for me? It is very competitive with the clover in my food plot and apparently unaffected by the broadleaf herbicide I am using (2,4DB).

Looks like Smartweed to me or something very similar. Is it growing in wetter areas?

Could be willow weed. I need to see if I can find any flowering

Not a particularly wet area. Sloped field, also grows in the woods.

Put a free plant ID app on your phone, take a pic and it tells you what it is...most of the time

It looks like smart weed to me too. It should get a few inch long clusters of pinkish, grape like flowers at the end of the branches, if it is. Right now, I have some of it in my tree beds, I didn't weed enough.

Keith

Willow weed (Persicaria).

I took a pic off the screen with my app, which doesn't always work, but, it came up 70% as persicaria longiseta, or oriental lady's thumb. in the knotweed family, also called various smartweeds... this version gets the cluster of pink flowers like Keith said...can grow both in wetlands and upland sites, it's an annual, and invasive in some areas.

Thanks folks. Looks like a long battle ahead with more frequent mowing to deplete the seed bed and allow the clover to shade it out.

We can eat the lady's thumb smartweed, both cooked and raw. A lot of people like it. I don't. I suspect deer would readily eat it.

Keith

you used 2 4 d on clover thats interesting

That is smartweed or willow weed.............

It's pretty common, just never knew what to call it, it was just a weed that needed removed.
It doesn't seem to be invasive.