A synergistic herbicidal composition containing (a) a compound of formula (I): or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof and (b) VLCFA and fatty acid/lipid synthesis inhibiting herbicides, including but not limited to, acetochlor, alachlor, anilofos, benfuresate, cafenstrole, dimethenamid-P, fentrazamide, indanofan, flufenacet, mefenacet, s-metolachlor, molinate, pethoxamid, pretilachlor, prosulfocarb, pyroxasulfone, thenylchlor and thiobencarb, or a salt or ester thereof, provide synergistic weed control of undesirable vegetation in direct-seeded, water-seeded and transplanted rice, cereals, wheat, barley, oats, rye, sorghum, corn or maize, sugarcane, sunflower, oilseed rape, canola, sugar beet, soybean, cotton, pineapple, pastures, grasslands, rangelands, fallowland, turf, tree and vine orchards, aquatics, plantation crops, vegetables, industrial vegetation management (IVM) or rights-of-way (ROW).