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Ortho Weed B Gon Chickweed, Clover & Oxalis Killer Concentrate — selective broadleaf herbicide (concentrate)

Selective Broadleaf Herbicide (concentrate)

Ortho Weed B Gon Chickweed, Clover & Oxalis Killer Concentrate Review

★★★★☆ 4.4/5

our editor rating how we score

4.2/5 from 3,891 shoppers at Amazon — their number, not ours.

$19–$24

Typical price · 16 fl oz concentrate; dilution and treated area per label

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Triclopyr on its own, which is exactly what extension services name for the two weeds that shrug off ordinary three-way products — and the reason to check your grass type before buying.

Our Verdict

This is the homeowner-shelf answer to a specific problem: creeping Charlie and wild violet survive standard three-way lawn weed killers, and Penn State's guidance is that herbicides containing triclopyr provide the best control, alone or combined with fluroxypyr. Most bottles on that shelf are 2,4-D plus dicamba plus MCPP and contain no triclopyr at all. This one is triclopyr and nothing else, at 8% as the triethylamine salt — the amine form, which is what turf products use, rather than the ester concentrates sold for brush in non-crop areas that will injure a lawn. The restriction is the thing to read before you buy, and it is a large one: the label excludes bahiagrass, bermudagrass, centipedegrass, kikuyugrass and St. Augustinegrass. That rules out most Southern lawns. It is listed as safe on buffalograss, fescues, Kentucky bluegrass, ryegrass and zoysiagrass, which is the cool-season set plus zoysia — and conveniently the range where creeping Charlie is the worst problem anyway. Expect to apply more than once: extension guidance for both target weeds is repeat applications across a season and often across years, timed to autumn rather than spring.

✅ Pros

  • Triclopyr alone — the active extension services actually name for ground ivy and wild violet
  • The triethylamine (amine) salt, formulated for turf, not the brush-killer ester
  • Also covers clover and oxalis, which MSU lists triclopyr against
  • Concentrate, so it mixes into a sprayer at the rate the label sets rather than a fixed hose-end dose
  • Around $21 for a bottle that treats a season of spot work

⚠️ Cons

  • Label excludes bahiagrass, bermudagrass, centipedegrass, kikuyugrass and St. Augustinegrass — most Southern lawns cannot use it
  • One application will not finish either target weed; both need repeats across seasons
  • Autumn after first frost is the effective window, so buying it in spring means waiting
  • A concentrate needs a sprayer and correct dilution — no advantage over ready-to-spray if you only have one patch

Product type

Selective Broadleaf Herbicide (concentrate)

Active ingredient

Triclopyr, triethylamine salt 8%

Price range

$19–$24

Coverage

16 fl oz concentrate; dilution and treated area per label

Best for

Creeping Charlie and wild violet on a cool-season or zoysia lawn, applied in autumn

our editor rating

4.4 out of 5

Where our facts come from

Label read on EPA's label database

EPA Reg. No. 239-2491

Read the label yourself →

We opened this product's accepted label on EPA's own Pesticide Product Label System — the strongest source available for what a product is registered to do.

What we found when we read it

Full label read 2026-08-02 on EPA PPLS (accepted 2024-08-06). Registered product name is 'ORTHO BRUSH-B-GON BRUSH KILLER'; our product is one of its alternate brand names, listed as 'ORTHO CONCENTRATE WEED-B-GON CHICKWEED, CLOVER & OXALIS KILLER'. Triclopyr triethylamine salt 8% confirmed. THE GRASS LIST WE PUBLISH IS EXACTLY RIGHT and is now verified rather than asserted — the label reads 'Do not use on Bahiagrass, Bermudagrass, Centipedegrass, Kikuyugrass or St. Augustinegrass', and names Buffalograss, Fescues, Kentucky Bluegrass, Ryegrass and Zoysiagrass as tolerant. That list appears on 22 pages of this site, so verifying it was the point of reading this label. Ground ivy and wild violet appear throughout, as does poison ivy — one master label covering both the lawn use and the brush use, printed as separate brand booklets. Also on it: 'Do not use on or around edible feed or food crops or areas where grazing is allowed' — so this is not a pasture product despite the shared registration with a brush killer.

Where this page and the container disagree, the container wins — the label is the legal authority on rates and restrictions. How to read one yourself.

Where This Product Matters

Matched against each state's actual disease, weed and pest pressure.

🌾 Zoysia🌾 Tall Fescue

Application window: April–May and September, and check every label against centipede before it leaves the shelf

Common chickweedWhite cloverChickweed and other cool-wet-condition annuals in the Southeast
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Perennial Ryegrass

Application window: June through July, inside the same short window everything else happens in. There is no autumn second chance

🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Zoysia

Application window: March–May and during monsoon flushes; Celsius-type products handle 100°F+ windows

🌾 Zoysia🌾 Tall Fescue

Application window: Bounded by the label's temperature ceiling rather than the calendar — spring treatments finish before the June heat arrives, and nothing selective goes down again until September cools off

Oxalis (creeping woodsorrel)
🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Zoysia

Application window: March–May while weeds are young; avoid spraying drought-stressed turf in summer

White cloverClover and Banks grass mites (dry winters and hot dry summers)
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Buffalograss🌾 Fine Fescue🌾 Perennial Ryegrass

Application window: May–June and September; high-altitude sun makes stressed turf easy to injure, so spot-treat rather than blanket-spray

Ground ivy (creeping Charlie — the one that wins in the damp shade New England lawns are full of)White clover
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Perennial Ryegrass

Application window: Broadleaf sprays in May–June and again in September, when the weeds are moving sugars to the roots; skip July and August, when a stressed cool-season lawn takes the injury and the weed does not

White cloverGround ivy
🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Zoysia🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Perennial Ryegrass

Application window: April to late May, then September into October. Skip July and August entirely: this is the transition zone, and a stressed tall fescue lawn takes the injury the weed shrugs off

🌾 Zoysia

Application window: March–May and October–November; avoid applications above 85°F

🌾 Zoysia🌾 Tall Fescue

Application window: April to early June and September–October; avoid mid-summer sprays on stressed turf

Oxalis
🌾 Zoysia

Application window: Year-round where the turf is actively growing, which is most of the time; the constraint is heat and drought stress on the leeward side rather than a dormant season

White clover
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Tall Fescue

Application window: Late April into June, then September into October; skip the July and early August heat, which is also when UI's own fertilizer schedule goes quiet

Creeping charlie (ground ivy — the Chicagoland obsession)Wild violet
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Fine Fescue🌾 Zoysia

Application window: May–June and September; fall beats creeping charlie best

Ground ivyWhite cloverWild violet
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Fine Fescue🌾 Zoysia

Application window: October is the most effective month for broadleaf weeds; never apply above 80°F or to drought-stressed turf

Creeping charlie (ground ivy)White clover
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Fine Fescue

Application window: October, and October is most of it — but check the wind and the date against what is happening in the fields, because early-summer growth-regulator drift is a real seasonal risk here and your own spray carries the same way

🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Buffalograss🌾 Zoysia🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass

Application window: April into May and again in September–October; avoid July and August, when a tall fescue lawn here is already at its limit

Ground ivy
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Zoysia🌾 Fine Fescue

Application window: April–May and September–October; autumn is the knockout window for the wild garlic that defines a Kentucky winter lawn

🌾 Zoysia

Application window: March–May and October–November; avoid applications above 85°F and never on drought-stressed St. Augustine

White cloverGround ivyCommon chickweed
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Perennial Ryegrass

Application window: June, then a narrow late-August to mid-September window. Maine's usable autumn is the shortest in New England

Ground ivy (creeping charlie)Wild violetWhite clover
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Fine Fescue🌾 Zoysia

Application window: April–May and September–October; autumn is the knockout window for the ground ivy and violet the Piedmont is full of

Ground ivyWhite clover
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Fine Fescue🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Tall Fescue

Application window: A narrow autumn is the real window here: late September into October, after the summer heat and before New England's early frost closes the season

Ground ivy (creeping charlie)White cloverWild violet
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Fine Fescue

Application window: May–June and September; autumn is the stronger window for perennial broadleaf weeds

Creeping charlie (ground ivy)
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Fine Fescue🌾 Perennial Ryegrass

Application window: Late May–June and September; autumn is the stronger window for perennial broadleaf weeds

🌾 Zoysia

Application window: April–May and September, avoiding the midsummer heat restrictions on most labels

White clover
🌾 Zoysia🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Fine Fescue

Application window: April–May and September–October; skip summer sprays on drought-stressed fescue

White clover
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Tall Fescue

Application window: June, then late August into September. In a sub-100-day valley there is no third chance

White clover
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Buffalograss🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Zoysia

Application window: Late spring and again from late August through September, when perennial broadleaf weeds are moving reserves to the root

🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Perennial Ryegrass

Application window: March–April and October in the south; May and September in the north

White cloverGround ivyCommon chickweed
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Tall Fescue

Application window: Late May into June, then late August through September. The autumn window closes earlier here than anywhere else in southern New England

White cloverGround ivy
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Fine Fescue

Application window: May and September–October; autumn is the knockout window for perennial broadleaf weeds

🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Buffalograss🌾 Zoysia

Application window: Spring and early autumn; in the south skip the June heat entirely, and in the north the usable autumn window closes by early October

Ground ivyWild violetWhite clover
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Fine Fescue🌾 Perennial Ryegrass

Application window: May and September–October; autumn is the knockout window for perennial broadleaf weeds

White cloverWild violet
🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Zoysia🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass

Application window: April–May and September–October; avoid spraying heat-stressed fescue in July–August

White clover
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Tall Fescue

Application window: Early to mid-June, then late August into early September. There is no third opportunity

Ground ivy (creeping charlie)White cloverWild violet
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Fine Fescue

Application window: May–June and September; fall applications hit dandelion taproots hardest

🌾 Buffalograss🌾 Zoysia🌾 Tall Fescue

Application window: Judged by wind before season: sustained wind is Oklahoma's normal condition, so the usable spray days are calm mornings in April, May and September rather than whole months

🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Fine Fescue🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Tall Fescue

Application window: March–May and September–October; the long mild shoulder seasons give more usable spray days than most states get

Ground ivyWild violetWhite clover
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Fine Fescue

Application window: May and September — fall is the knockout window for perennial broadleaf weeds

White cloverGround ivy
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Tall Fescue

Application window: Broadleaf work in May–June and again in September; the September pass is the one that holds, because the weed is moving reserves down

🌾 Zoysia🌾 Tall Fescue

Application window: April–May and September–October, and never above 90°F — centipedegrass is sensitive to 2,4-D both at spring green-up and in summer heat

White clover
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Buffalograss

Application window: Early to mid-June, then late August into September, which is the pass that actually holds on perennial broadleaf weeds

🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Zoysia🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass

Application window: April–May and September–October; skip sprays on drought-stressed summer fescue

🌾 Zoysia🌾 Buffalograss🌾 Tall Fescue

Application window: April–early June and September–October; avoid herbicides above 90°F

🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Fine Fescue🌾 Buffalograss

Application window: May and September, avoiding the intense midsummer heat on the label

White cloverGround ivyCommon chickweed
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Tall Fescue

Application window: Late May through June, then a short late-August to mid-September window. Vermont's autumn window is the narrowest in New England

White clover
🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Zoysia🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Fine Fescue

Application window: April–May and September–October; skip sprays on heat-stressed fescue in July and August

White clover
🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Fine Fescue🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass

Application window: April–May and September–October; WSU caps applications at 80°F, stricter than the 85–90°F ceilings used elsewhere

Ground ivy, which owns the damp Appalachian shade a tall fescue lawn fails inWild violetWhite clover
🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Perennial Ryegrass🌾 Zoysia

Application window: April into May and again in September–October. Skip July and August: this is transition-zone country and a heat-stressed tall fescue lawn absorbs the injury the weed does not

White cloverCreeping charlie (ground ivy)
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Fine Fescue🌾 Perennial Ryegrass

Application window: Early to mid-fall is the favourable window for dandelion and other perennial broadleaf weeds

White clover
🌾 Kentucky Bluegrass🌾 Tall Fescue🌾 Buffalograss

Application window: June, then late August into September. UW's own framing is useful: a slow-release application covers a 90 to 100 day growing season, which is roughly the entire Wyoming season

Common questions

Common Questions

How much does Ortho Weed B Gon Chickweed, Clover & Oxalis Killer Concentrate cost?

Ortho Weed B Gon Chickweed, Clover & Oxalis Killer Concentrate typically runs $19–$24, covering 16 fl oz concentrate; dilution and treated area per label.

What does Ortho Weed B Gon Chickweed, Clover & Oxalis Killer Concentrate treat?

Ortho Weed B Gon Chickweed, Clover & Oxalis Killer Concentrate targets creeping charlie, ground ivy, wild violet, clover, chickweed, oxalis.

What is the active ingredient in Ortho Weed B Gon Chickweed, Clover & Oxalis Killer Concentrate?

Triclopyr, triethylamine salt 8%, registered under EPA Reg. No. 239-2491.

What is the biggest downside of Ortho Weed B Gon Chickweed, Clover & Oxalis Killer Concentrate?

Label excludes bahiagrass, bermudagrass, centipedegrass, kikuyugrass and St. Augustinegrass — most Southern lawns cannot use it

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