I can't figure out what weed this is, it pops up in my garden every year and I don't know how to stop them from growing. I attached pictures

Thanks

I think your weed may be annual sun spurge (Euphorbia helisopia). Does is exude a milky white sap if you break the stem? - Take care not to get it on your skin if it does, it may cause a rash.

I checked them there just greenery they don't have any white stuff. I've pulled them out of the ground lots of times with no rash. Can't for the life of me figure out what they are but they only pop up in bare areas

Is it possible for you to post a picture showing the plants closer so we can see more detail?

Sure will do when I get home

Here are more pictures of it

I think Trish is right, it does look like a Euphorbia. Maybe Euphorbia peplus?



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Are you certain that when you snap a stem to break it there is no milky sap that comes out?

yeah they do look really similar, im not 100% sure thats it but thats the closest Ive seen to what it looks like. now the question is how do you stop it from growing? i put down preen and its still growing through that

Which Preen product did you use? I assume it was the pre-emergent so when you say it is still growing through that, you mean you had applied the Preen before it had started to germinate?

yeah i applied it after some of it was already grown but this new stuff that popped up came after I had applied preen. so the old stuff i know wasn't going to be killed by preen because i applied it after, but these new weeds shouldn't have come up since it was applied.

Can you tell us exactly which Preen product it was, there are several:

http://www.preen.com/products/...

Edited to add if it was Preen Garden Weed Preventer, that contains trifluralin. Another product that contains trifluralin plus another herbicide says it gives "partial" control of several Euphorbia species. So maybe it isn't the best herbicide for that weed. Your best bet might be to call the toll free number on the product and ask them. Or just keep pulling/hoeing it out until the seeds in the soil are gone. Make sure not to let it produce more seeds!

it was this one, i attached an image