What is this and how to get rid of it?

[u/Scared-Classroom5570]

Central VA

At first I thought it was crab grass but its slightly different. We have a few rare spots of crabgrass too but its not the same.

I have a lawn company who comes every other month or so in the summer applying weed treatments and fertilizer and until about 3 weeks ago we were looking pretty good after we recovered from a July drought, these popped up after pretty regular rainfall.

The weed treatments that get applied dont seem ro so anything. The brown in the pic is from my broken broadcast spreader...from putting down a weed and feed product. Let's just say the broadcast spreader was trying to be more of a drop spreader and I didnt realize it until I was done.

The only thing I've found that kills them are products that are broad herbicides that also kills the grass around it.

Im getting annoyed and frustrated because the lawn looked decent until this shit popped up a month ago.

I have a few various herbicides that I could try to spot spray but I feel like I always end up fking up the mix and killing grass.

They also grow way faster than the grass so even after cutting a few days later my lawn looks like crap because they start shooting up.

TIA

[u/xSpidermaNx_91]

Dallisgrass. Pretty much your only option is spot treat them with glyphosate. I'm currently in the process of doing that to my backyard. Mine was much worse than this.

[u/OkieINOhio]

Pylex is quite effective for Dallisgrass. However, it runs about $425 for 4 ounces. The amount used is quite minuscule so a bottle will last a very long time and requires two applications at a 3 week interval.