How Do You Eradicate Mugwort With Glyphosate?
Mugwort, or Artemisia vulgaris, is an invasive perennial plant that is so similar in appearance to garden chrysanthemum that it is often referred to as chrysanthemum weed. But while mugwort leaves have whitish, wooly undersides, garden mums feature the same shade of green on both upper and lower leaf surfaces. Because mugwort reproduces by means of its rhizomes, or roots, it is difficult to control it by pulling it up. Glyphosate, a non-selective broadleaf herbicide, will kill mugwort, but you must apply it at the proper time and application rate. By learning when and how to apply glyphosate, you should be able to control the tenacious mugwort weed. Fertilize and water the mugwort a few weeks before applying the glyphosate. Although it seems counter-productive to nourish something you are trying to eradicate, glyphosate–a postemergence systemic herbicide–kills weeds by traveling through the entire plant. Because healthy, thriving plants in full flower conduct the glyphosate more effi
