Creeping sensitive weed (mimosa diplotricha aka m. invisa )
A savage legume that responds aggressively to clearing, cultivation, fire and poison. Used as a green manure in some places. Plants like this are attempting to protect the land from further damage and do build soil but make hands on management of the land very difficult. Use gloves to remove this plant and put it in a pile and mulch over it.
The dead plants burn in the dry season and the surviving seeds grow from the ash when the next rains come. Young seedlings are easier to control than adult plants, watch for them to appear in banks after the first rains of the wet season; pull out, mulch over or chip with a hoe as soon as they appear. Goats will control it as it is an excellent goat food and is in fact preferred by goats over almost all other plants. The seed leaves of the young sprouts are very sweet.
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