Name That Weed - Thread #2

A pretty "weed" from my yard: (identified by @bernsad as Hairy Bittercress, aka Cardamine hirsuta)

(Pictures removed from server, sorry)

Any ideas?

Want to help me identify it?

It's not very big...the blooms are on a long stalk of about 4"-6" tall.

Weird, they posted sideways, but were not uploaded that way...

...oh well. Just turn your head to one side to view, LOL.

I don't know what it is, but I do know that it grows in Alabama!

It looks like bittercress.

Hey, that means it's edible. I may be harvesting a crop. In fact, I could open a farm stand...

Thanks, I think @bernsad is right!

Hairy bittercress is a member of the mustard family (Brassicaceae), and some of the mustards are quite adept at being weedy. Indeed, members of this family may be among the first plants to jump the garden fence and establish themselves as weeds back in the Old World. This plant, like so many others in our nonnative weed flora, are of Eurasian origin, and have long been adapted to landscapes highly disturbed by people. When hairy bittercress and others of its ilk made their way to the New World, they found a ready niche in our disturbed habitats - like your yard, or flowerbed.

This species is a winter annual, and those little rosettes of leaves are often evident from late fall on through the winter. This growth habit enables the plants to pop forth early in the spring, and burst into flower and fruit with vigor before most other plants have reached the reproductive stage.

It's 68 degrees (F) here today, supposed to be about the same tomorrow, and warmer on Saturday, yippee!!

Weeds are poppin'out all over...want to help me identify them?

Here we go:

Weed #1 (the tall one in the middle):

(identified by @SqueakyChu as Cleaver, aka Galium aparine)

Weed #2

(identified by @tardis as Chickweed, aka Stellaria media,(

Weed #3:
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(identified by @southernbooklady as Common Vetch, aka Vicia sativa)

I live in the coastal plain of eastern North Carolina, in the USDA Hardiness zone #7b.

Well? Any idea? Waddayathink? :)

#1 is Cleaver



Apparently this weed can be eaten. It covers everything else around it so I pull it out whenever I see it. It feels really sticky, and I hate touching it! :)

#2 looks a bit like chickweed. It's not as leggy as I'm used to, though. If it is chickweed, it's edible, too.

edited to add: Looked up pictures of chickweed online and pretty sure that's not it. The flowers are wrong, for one thing.

#3 is common vetch

http://www.turffiles.ncsu.edu/weeds/Vetch_Common.aspx

I have it EVERYWHERE, but it is easy to pull up.

(I live in the same part of the world as you, fuzzi)

Thank you all for your input.

(10) Yep, it's all over here, too, SBL. We're probably only a couple hours' drive from each other. :)

I have more pictures to challenge you, perhaps tomorrow.

@tardis, I think your first guess is correct. I looked online at photos of Chickweed blooms, and when they are first opening, they hang like the flowers in my pictures are.

Good job, and thanks!

Okay, round #3!

Weed #1: (Picture removed from server, sorry)

Weed #2: (the one in the middle with the jagged leaves)


Weed #3: (Picture removed from server, sorry)

::Final Jeopardy theme begins to play::

Extra credit for this one:

(It might be a tricky one)

I'd like to know #3...that shows up in my flowerbed occasionally.

I'm looking...

...hey! Look at this:

https://www.garden.org/weedlibrary/

>13 fuzzi: First picture looks like a thistle, probably a yellow thistle. I just run the shovel down the edge of it, tip out, and pull the root by hand without disturbing the soil.

#2 is possibly Common Sorrel. Not sure.

The Virginia Tech Weed Index is a good reference site to bookmark:

http://oak.ppws.vt.edu/weedindex.htm

If you don't already have an idea of what you are looking for you end up doing a lot of searching, but the pictures are useful because they often include both seedlings and mature plants.

My favorite weed in my garden is something called a cut-leaf evening primrose. It acts like a ground cover. It makes a thick carpet of tough plants up my garden slope, so it is one of my mainstays against erosion since I live and garden on a pile of sand. I walk over it, push wheel barrows over it, and it even survives the dogs playing in the yard. And in the summer the slope becomes a mass of pale yellow cup-like flowers from dusk until dawn. The night moths adore it.

I'm trying to "go native", so that primrose sounds like a possibility for my slope...

What is this weed? It is ALL OVER my yard!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/6y7ij74oh8ih7di/20140326_193320.jpg

with the purple flowers? I call that "hen bit" because that's what my neighbor calls it.

Thats it! Thanks @southernbooklady

It might be Purple Deadnettle. I have to go back and look at my yard again, because those two weeds are very similar.

Good article here: https://utextension.tennessee.edu/publications/Documents/W165.pdf

PLEASE help me identify this horrendous pest which is plaguing my garden and agricultural plots for more than 20 years already.

I live in Madeira Island, Portugal (Atlantic Ocean).

This absolutely noxious weed is perennial, propagates by root apparently, develops small white campanulate flowers with a fragrance which attracts many bees, apparently all year round. It goes everywhere either under the ground or above it, by climbing whatever it can. Ultimately it kills the plants below its carpet. Can climb high walls (4, 5 meters).

The pictures are from August 2012, but it's flowering now and climbing everything as ever.

It wasn't initially present when we inherited the property 30 years ago. It came from an adjacent neighbor by way of sending roots below the wall which divided both properties, and has plagued us relentlessly since then. I seem to recall it was introduced in our neighbor farmland to feed the chickens. It is possible that it came from Venezuela, since our neighbor son came from there at that time (he now owns the adjacent property, also infested).

Getting rid of it seems to be an impossible task, since it has roots going to 3/4 meters below ground level (along a wall). I would like to identify it to see what can be done against it, but despite very extensive search I could not find any weed resembling this one.

In the pictures there is another weed-like plant with red flowers, which I would like to have it identified as well if possible, despite not being a worry for now.

Many thanks,

Paulo

Wow! That is some problem!
I tried googling it but keep getting US sites listing portugese laurel etc.

I would check with your Department of Agriculture.
http://www.portugal.gov.pt/en/the-ministries/ministry-of-agriculture,-sea,-envir...

To the person that asked on the last thread about the yellow flower in south texas, that looks like what is commonly known as cowpen daisy, Verbesina encelioides. While it may be a weed to some, I grow it for butterfly nectar. It is also a host plant for the silvery checkerspot. In fact many of the plants discussed in the forum provide nectar and homes for out butterflies and bees. Here is a picture of cowpen daisy a favorite of the migrating monarchs and queens.

If I can figure out how to post a picture I will add one of mine

>26 mschuchart: thanks for the information.

If you want to post a picture, read the directions in the first post in this thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/35356#566877

Hi,

I called our Botanical Garden, and they had no ready information about it, but I've sent the pictures and I'm waiting for some result.

Meanwhile, I found it looks a lot like cultivated Codonopsis pilosula, a Chinese plant:

http://www.kotvicnikovafarma.cz/product/pazvonek-chloupkaty-codonopsis-pilosulad...

But the flower is somewhat different (campanule borders are curled, and stamens seem to be connected at the center).

Paulo

And yours looks more stem-like rather than vine-like.

Two close ups of the plant parts taken today along a rule, for measure:





The roots are light brown, sometimes anthropomorphic.

Paulo

And those are definitely bell-like flowers.

I tell you, find a reason for a plant to be desireable and it will start to suffer all kinds of set-backs. What's the market like for Poor Man's Ginseng?

2wonderY:

I don't know, it was the first time I heard about that plant. I'm strongly suspecting this might be some wild and ferocious variety of that plant, which apparently is a marvelous thing to have, according to websites. I'm quite tempted to unearth one of its roots and chew it to see what it's like (apparently it's eaten raw). If you can't fight them, eat them...

The Botanical Garden answered me, suggesting it may be Salpichroa origanifolia. It seems it is indeed that pest:

http://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/03030800-0b07-490a-8d04-0605030c0f0...

However, I've never seen the fruits described there in all 25 years it has been here. It displays an invasive behavior like those ones in Australia, and it is indeed listed as an invasive plant here in Portugal. It's by far the worst of the pests we have here in the property.

Paulo

Here's one that's suddenly appeared in my front flower bed:



Anyone recognize it?

I'm in eastern North Carolina in the USA, if that helps.

1...2...3...4...5

Naw!

But it's purty.

It's three feet tall in my front gardens. I want it identified, and then I will remove it.

If it is something that will benefit the birds and other wildlife, I'll transplant it.

Hi everyone. This guy is in a little space on my garden and spreading, does anyone recognize it? I'm in Utah, United States. Started out hairless then started growing hair. It now has hair everywhere and started growing these hairy buds to go with it. It looks pretty creepy, hopefully it won't eat me alive some day :)





Thanks!
Lucio

Looks like a poppy. Don't know what kind.

I would have said poppy too.

A reminder of how to post pictures, here:

http://www.librarything.com/topic/35356#

(34) An online naturalist/botanist/somethingorother has tentatively identified it as a Willow Oak seedling.

I think he might be correct.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus_phellos

>37 luciolucio:: that looks like an oriental poppy to me. Let it blossom and then the bloom will identify it more closely.

So, what do we think this is? Weed? Tree? Alien life form? After last month's visit from the Scotts Lawn guy, these popped up ALL OVER my back yard. They are all about the same height -- 3-4 inches.

They look like a maple of some sort. What did the lawn guy do when he visited?

>37 luciolucio: Has that flower opened yet? Photos?

>43 lesmel: It's a tree. Pull them up, and curse the winds for bringing them your way. Don't trust that mowing will take care of them. Walnut trees are the worst.

>44 bernsad: The lawn guy fertilized with Turfbuilder Pro or similar.

>46 Lyndatrue: I'm not sure I have the energy to pull them all. OMG. I'm not kidding when I say they are ALL OVER the yard. I guess my tree was (maybe my neighbors' trees were) rather fruitful this year. I guess I have to hope the grass will choke most of them out...otherwise I will be pulling all summer long.

>34 fuzzi: ID'd by some horticulturist as a Willow Oak...a tree seedling. Latin name is Quercus Phellos. It is going bye-bye...

>47 lesmel: I would think if you mowed at this stage of development that you would kill a lot of them. Already sprouted, so the seed is expended, and very little root growth to reshoot.

>47 lesmel: Count yourself lucky that those are maples and easily pulled at this stage. Oaks send a taproot quickly that sometimes require digging. Thankfully, 2013 was not a heavy mast year.

And yes! >46 Lyndatrue: Walnut trees ARE the worst! And they like to hide until it becomes a major operation. You come out stinking of the plant.

This is a repost. I believe I was in an old thread.
I am a city girl trying to learn something about the things growing around my house in Missouri...Please help me out with this item. It is long stem about a a yard tall. Jaggard leaves. White little flowers, in a cluster. The white flowers have 4 petals. Sorry about the image quality. Thank you in advance for your help. I appreciate it.

Is this poison Ivy or oak? I tried to figure it out by using the web and this site; all the pictures had variations. I live in Missouri.

>52 HipChick: Looks like wild strawberries to me. Poison Ivy is smoother and often has a "shiny" look to the leaves.

Thanks. What about the middle picture? Do you have a guess? It is a different plant. (I should had paid better attention to the order so it would be apparent.) The leaves that sorta look like a kitchen mitt.

the leaves on the middle plant look like baby sassafras -- they often have a "thumb" in the early leaves, and don't develop the more recognizable lobed leaves until they are a little bigger.

There are lots of sassafras trees in Missouri. It that's what it is, watch it, and look around for a nearby bigger tree--sassafras reproduce by runners and they can be pretty invasive.

>51 HipChick:

If that plant is 2 feet tall, I'm guessing Garlic mustard, an invasive.

Thank You. Garlic mustard is perfect!. I looked for garlic mustard on Google and the images were exactly like my plant.

I can expect to see flowers soon on the wild strawberries?

There are a ton of trees nearby. Ok.Sounds good.. I drink a lot of tea and I know Sassafras root can be a tea. I will go and do some research. Thanks

>58 HipChick: probably. I've never tried eating wild strawberries whenever they've made an appearance in my yard, but just leave them to the birds. :)

Wild strawberries are edible, but not anything like the strawberries bred for the market. (Unlike other berries--blackberries, raspberries, etc.) You need to pick a whole lot of them, and you'll need to add sugar.

Turtles like them.

picture 129 on the original thread is something i have also and i think it is a fall clematis. any help? i do not have a nut at the root and the seed packet is flat.

This looks like Garlic Mustard to me. It grows all over our neighborhood and I've actually made pesto from it. Kind of leggy, leaves just like your photo, little cluster of white flowers at the top.

(If anyone knows how to put the picture in with an iPad, I'd love to know. I can do it on the big computer when I fire it up.)

I think the seeds for the red weeds came with the elephant dung I'm using this year. I think I'll add more in the fall and hope winter deals with them or I can dig them under before planting in the spring.

On the other hand, these might be edible by humans, and I quite like the aroma when I weed them, so if I knew what it is... Or I have a friend with an iguana who might like it, again if I knew what it is.

No idea what final height is, as I've been pulling the stuff as it gets to about 20cm.

I've been looking around, and think it may be an amaranth, in which case I will certainly eat it.

>64 MarthaJeanne: Very interesting...I have no idea.

Where do you get the elephant dung?

At the zoo.

Well, okay. Why didn't I assume that...?

We don't have a zoo within a two hour drive, so that source is not practical for me. When we had chickens, the garden did extremely well.

>66 fuzzi: - I'm glad you asked - I was wondering too!

From what I've read on the web, a lot of zoos are now selling 'fertilizer'. Some compost a mixture of dungs, often sold as 'zoo poo'. Elephant dung can be spread fresh, but I have had a lot of grass in some beds, and this bed has the red stuff, so there are some problems with that idea. The elephant keeper suggested also using it as a 'tea' and I have done that on the lawn and my containers, which are all very lovely this year.

Actually, mostly due to that one trip. I arranged to drive in to the back of the elephant house for 10 little buckets of dung, then around to another entrance to Schönbrunn palace for the yearly plant sale. Once they know what has come up successfully they sell off the extras for well under market prices. And on top of that, the geraniums are special ones, many with variagated leaves.

Back to the dung. It's a win/win situation for the zoos if they can sell something they would otherwise have to pay to get rid of.



On the left is a Pina Colada sage from the garden store. Everything else is from Schönbrunn, and as you see, the pots are doing really well on the dung tea. So is the lawn. In spite of a lot more sun than water, it is really green this year. More of it is weeds than grass, but it is green.

Something, I suspect feral cats, likes to dig up my seedling beds, and usually I cut up horseradish leaves to spread around to protect them, but the elephant dung alone seems to be enough, even though it is not really smelly. Well, only when mixed with water. I'll give the lawn another treatment next week when Jerry is in Rome.

This is my husband's picture of another purchase that day. Other years I have bought the plants by public, which has limited what I could take. But this year I had the car. http://www.jerrybarton.eu/Miscellaneous/DailyPicks/i-PfvQTgm

>70 MarthaJeanne: Fascinating picture of the castor bean plant. I've grown them (but in California), and have never ever seen one that was red, or any color other than the stock green, now I think about it. Either your winters are extraordinarily mild, or you are planning on bringing it indoors. (Yes, I know the proper name is castor oil plant, but I'm old, and that's what I always called it.)

I love your hanging pot. There's too much wind here to ever dare such a thing, but those geraniums are beautiful (they *are* geraniums, I hope).

Wonder if elephant dung would keep out the squirrels? There's no zoo nearby, so I'll never find out.

Those are smart cats to stay out of the way of those elephants you've got hanging around somewhere.

I took a picture of the other side of that pot today so that you can see the pretty leaves.



However I see that it also shows the mess of gardening stuff lying around. Well, that's at least honest.

About the castor oil plant: the things I have looked at recommend treating it as an annual. Plants that come into our house tend to die. I have a small plastic green house that I use for my citrus plants over the winter, but the decisive word there is small. I have too many plants I need to overwinter to put one in that is that easy to replace.

>73 MarthaJeanne: Oh my gosh! That pot is the coolest thing I've ever seen. I thought it was a hanging pot, but it straddles the gate instead. Even though I don't have a place for one, and I don't need one, I still want one now, having seen yours.

>73 MarthaJeanne: I love that pot, too. :)

What I want is a different fence so I can have them all along the driveway and not just on the gate. It's a bit fiddly to water, as it you aren't carefull all the water goes in one side, leaving the other dry.

I had to scan some covers, so I'm on the other computer. Now the pictures are here where they belong. Except the one from Jerry's website, because it won't let me. If he were here... but he's in Rome this week.

I had no idea that Nightshade comes in different forms. I've always seen the vine-y Deadly Nightshade, but this season I have an erect example with very small white flowers, and have identified it as Black Nightshade

The page I've linked to says the berries are narcotic. I wonder if I should harvest them and make a sleeping potion.

PS: Here's a good page of a variety of weeds:
http://www.specseed.co.nz/downloads/IdentifyingPastureWeeds-SpecialtySeedsNZ.pdf

Anyone know name of long flat pointed green weeds in marshes - called "shallow strings" in West of Ireland

They're found near the Bulrushes or Typha angustifolia L.

Thx

>80 MichaelMcDermott:: it might be an algae rather than a weed, Michael. We get it in ponds here in Ontario: top spreading, not rooted.

I am trying to figure out if this plant is a weed or flower. Anyone know what it is? This plant is quite large with almost thistle like leaves that are stiff to the touch but dont sting your fingers when touched. The thistles can easily be squished. The flowers that are about to bloom are white in colour ( i cracked open one of the heads to see the colour). I want to add a photo but i am not sure how.

>82 tammysinontario:

Check this thread for how-to.

http://www.librarything.com/topic/158050

I just reactivated my free account at Shutterfly, and am finding picture loading, editing and album arrangement easier than I remember.

I have these in my back yard - have a red stem/stalk and a tap root. Some of the stems seem striped vertically red/green or green/darker green. We pulled them all, but my dog has been breaking out in a rash and I've been trying to find the source (not fleas, so it's either this or ants or the poor guy is suddenly allergic to grass). I'm hoping to identify it so I can research it and see if it's a common enough allergen (though he's a lab so can be allergic to anything). Thanks! :)

>84 subliminalflicker: Lambsquarters, I think: http://weeds.cropsci.illinois.edu/images/Lambsquarters/index.htm

And edible and nutritious!

It does look similar except for the stem - the stem is much redder, more like pokeberry. Maybe it's a strange strain of it? I dunno. I pulled it all and am hoping that our dog's rash clears up.

Anyone know what this is? I have several of them growing.... from 1 to over 2 feet tall....

>88 drjpooch: Ragweed?

I'd say ragweed. The bane of my sinuses, the uber allergen. ETA: pull them up!

Thank you!

Yikes! Take a blow torch to those things.

Now, now. Varielle is having flash-backs.

They are really very easy to pull out by the roots. I just removed a bunch myself.

Found a piece of broadleaf weed in our store bought bag of kale. It is dark green with spines ( small thorns) on the mid vein. Any idea asto what this could be?

Thistle has spines along the stems and on the leaves.

Hi all, I live in Connecticut and moved into a new house this summer and I'm discovering all sorts of cool weeds/wildflowers. This cottony one caught my eye yesterday (top image). It looks like common groundsel (bottom image) but that only grows about 12" and the one in my yard is as tall as I am (5'8"). A lady from Georgia posted a picture of it, too, but she didn't know what it was. Any ideas? The top image only shows about half the plant; it's on a hill so it seems to be shorter than it is.

Looks like sow thistle (Sonchus) to me - there is more than one variety, and I know the kind I get here can be up to a metre tall. The common type here doesn't have a lot of prickles. I think it is classed as a noxious weed, though.

http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/cropprot/weedguid/sowthist.htm

Struggling to identify this grassy weed that keeps spreading and seems resistant to my abatement efforts. It appears to have a white tuber root system and spreads underground. The grass is long round stem with 1 1/4 inch leaves...leaves appear to alternate up the stem.

https://goo.gl/photos/VpvwHYdpdrT4Vza39

Looks like crabgrass to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digitaria
'They are annual plants, and one plant is capable of producing 150,000 seeds per season.'

>98 fiqtir: Your link isn't accessible.

Right click on your photo and copy the url. Come back here and put the url in a message like so:

img="url string"

and enclose that inside less than and greater than symbols.

If my directions aren't clear, just give us the photo url and one of us can bring the photo here to look at it.

I don't think it's crabgrass. There is no central cluster. It seems to spread underground and some of the stems are over a foot long. I've treated it heavily with Ortho Weed-B-Gon plus crabgrass and it was unaffected.

>100 2wonderY: I had no problems accessing the photographs (and that's even including the fact that I block most all google cookies in my FF browser).

It's either crab grass, or bermuda. Your account is free, and I can't tell what part of the world you're in (even from your Google profile), but it surely looks like the root structure of bermuda. Weed B Gone doesn't kill a lot of things. If you really want to kill most grasses, Grass B Gone will do it, but it will kill ALL the grass (and not forever, but for a while).

You can also use bleach, which will sterilize the ground, and you aren't going to be able to grow anything there for at least a year after you do it... I've used that method on ground that was infested with morning glory (the bindweed variety common in the western states), but it really takes a practiced hand.

It's also too late in the year, unless you're in one of the states that doesn't have winter.

Sorry, struggling with the link to post pictures directly...

Here is the original link to all four pictures: https://goo.gl/photos/VpvwHYdpdrT4Vza39

I'm in Northern Virginia...Winter is Coming.

Now that I see some pictures of Bermuda grass, it does look a lot like that. I think it was in a root ball of a tree we had put in a couple of years ago, and it is spreading into the lawn more and more.

Now that I get a closer look at some pictures online, it looks like it is bermuda grass...which from what I read is challenging to get rid of from a fescue lawn.

Thanks for the assistance in identifying this.

In the mountains of North Carolina, at 2350 elevation, in early April we are getting a fast growing ground creeper with two kinds of leaf. Near the ground the leaves are lobed, and further up they are elliptical. The leaves are opposed, and the stems are red. The stems connect plants above ground over several feet, with frequent rooting along the way. It may be a woody vine. It sends the tip up in the air, but not erect, about 2 feet.
Here's the photo: https://goo.gl/photos/4PTQj1XZFmSTpwe38

>106 JerryMay:. Oh I am constantly battling that. It's Japanese Honeysuckle, Lonicera japonica:

http://www.carolinanature.com/trees/loja.html

It and Virginia Creeper together are trying to take over my garden fence and they are impossible to get rid of.

Of course, you can always drink the nectar from the blossoms.

Thank you! Never noticed any last year, and now it's taken over my slope. It's completely covering the crownvetch that took over last year. The crownvetch had taken over from my periwinkle. No flowers yet. Sprayed twice with roundup, and it doesn't seem to bother it one bit.

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Hi, I have a small garden with a young blueberry plant in a potted contained. A couple of weeks ago, this plant started growing next to the blueberry plant. Does anyone know what this is?

Thanks,
AMN

https://goo.gl/photos/oCCRM4CbmRNJZpBo7

>113 AMN2111: it could be a blueberry shoot, it's hard to see.

We have these small bushes in front of our house here in Meridian, Idaho that have some nasty weeds growing up from the center. The bush itself has small yellow flowers with five slightly overlapping petals. The weeds have a pale green stalk and grow in clusters straight up from the center of the bush. See pics here: https://goo.gl/photos/qQBwYoV81xegcdLp9

Any idea what this weed is?

Is that some kind of jasmine shrub you are growing?

To be honest I don't know what type of plant it is, we just bought this home about 7 months ago and the builder did all of the landscaping in the front. I have noticed that these weeds seem specific to this particular type of bush, haven't seem them in any of our other plants.

well, to be honest it looks like the "weeds" are really just some sport growth of the shrub. the leaves look the same around the flowers and the taller canes. But that might be the photo? But if the shrub is some dwarf hybrid variety, it's possible new shoots would revert to another state.

>115 s.a.wood15: The shrub is shrubby cinquefoil (potentilla fruticosa). I think the "weed" is just new growth, maybe different conditions are causing it to grow much taller than the original. You can probably just trim it to the shape you want. Cinquefoil grows wild in the mountains near here, and can grow in pretty tough conditions. It may just like its new home a lot.

Here is a nice page of lots of detailed pictures of a wide variety of weeds:

http://www.gardenwithoutdoors.org.uk/weed_guide

Hi All
This grass weed is in green couch in Queensland Australia. it seems to grow in small areas and looks spikey but its not?

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Appreciate any help

Hi Everyone,
This is a super useful thread. I just bought a house on a river in Western Washington (the state) and struggling to ID a lot of plants. Hopefully, some of you will recognize some of the plants. Here is the first one:


I found it on the garden bed. It is low mat-like creeping vine - about a few inches wide at this point. The leaves are small - green with a maroon tinge in the center.

I have thousands of these 2 -3' weeds that have flower buds that look like little tubes. When they bloom, they resemble a dandelion that has gone to seed - fluffy cotton like bloom that gets blown by the wind. I'd post a photo, but I don't see how to do that. The leaves resemble Horse Nettle.

>123 purujit01: Spurge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia_maculata .
>124 bstnh1: Groundsel or something closely related? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senecio_vulgaris , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senecioneae .

Note to new arrivals: LibraryThing is a book cataloging site. The Gardens & Books group has perhaps a dozen currently active members, scattered around the world. Rather than create an account here and go through the learning curve for the sake of a single mystery plant, you'd be better off on a plant identification site with thousands of members devoted to the cause. e.g. https://www.facebook.com/groups/156706504394635/ or https://www.facebook.com/groups/156706504394635/ or http://identifythatplant.com/plant-id-resources/plant-id-websites/ .

Thank you! The Facebook group is excellent for weed and other plant ID. Easy to post photos and quick replies. My weed, by the way, is Erechtites hieracifolia, American Burnweed.

>126 bstnh1: Ah, Which is in the same tribe as groundsel. Thanks for the followup. Yeah, LibraryThing is not a photo-centric site, so the classic question from new arrivals is how to post photos, and really it's not worth the bother if all you want is one weed identified.

I'll bet if you google "name that weed" our threads, especially #1 are what come up.

>128 2wonderY: Yup, it does, but... not a phrase I'd think to use if seeking weed identification. :-)

Hey all - looking to identify this weed.

South Florida region. In full sun front lawn.

Whoa! Huge image. That's Crowfoot grass.

sorry about the image size. FIXED. and THANK YOU SO MUCH. Now I can target that weed.

Hi, Anyone know what this is? I'm in England so the plants may be a little different but I'm hoping someone might have a clue....
https://ibb.co/i2cDWR

hello - can anyone id this weed.

South Florida, Ft Lauderdale region. in a lawn with st augustine grass and nutsedge. nut sedge being eradicated with "Sedge ender" and thankfully the st augustine grass is not dying off.

this is the next weed i wish to eliminate without damaging the st augustine grass.

can you id this weed? Thank you.

Bringing this more recent thread back to the top of the pile. Not that it'll work.

After looking at some of the used-to-be images in this thread, I think it may be wiser to instruct people who are new to the site to use their photo gallery instead of random photo sites. I note that some of the images posted by @fuzzi are now instead linked to "Huge Domains" or something similar, and Photo bucket is now saying something about 3rd party hosting. Flickr still works, and so do some others, thank goodness.

I think the google images are okay, too.

For the reference of people who are trying to post an image, here's some steps:

Upload your image to your photo gallery here on LibraryThing. You may then display it here, in this thread, by doing the following steps:

Go to your member gallery.
Click on the image you want us to see.
Then mouse click right (or whatever brings up the mouse menu), and choose "View Image" which gives you the proper string to display.

It should look like this (this is actually all one line):

http://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/5b/48/5b48dfffb7828216374374a6f41434b4...

Now use that string as follows:


The "string" above is an image, as well.

Which gives you the nice image of why I don't trust Amazon third party booksellers (the book was sold as new).

Anyone know what this grassy weed is? Starts off as a clump of normal looking grass and then sends up stems that turn purplish with age and have these feathery foxtail-likes at the end. All over my lawn out here on Long Island, NY. Thanks! Driving me crazy, I can't figure out that they are.

It seemed like a good thing when we bought a house with a front lawn that doesn't need mowing - it is entirely covered in moss. Turns out that there is a downside; the moss took over because there are grubs that killed the original grass (it's starting to happen in the side lawn now so we figured out what's going on).

Put down grub killer to knock the bugs back, but I don't know if the grass will come back, or if I need to pull up the moss and put grass seed?

Help. This is taking over my lawn. What kind of weed is it.

>138 Darth-Heather: Keep the moss!!!
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/garden/01moss.html
https://www.ecolandscaping.org/06/landscape-design/making-magic-with-mosses/
https://www.gardensalive.com/product/should-your-lawn-be-made-of-moss

>139 0415: You'll need to post a close up.

>141 qebo: sounds like a plan! Our area has very poor soil, and we have a lot of shade trees, so I guess the moss is the better choice.

We don't plant anything that has to be watered - I have been scavenging indigenous plants that I find in similar environments and filling my garden with them.

I am hoping to get rid of the grubs though. yuk.

>143 Darth-Heather: The grubs may be there because of the grass; if it's Japanese beetle larvae, they eat the grass roots.

>137 daslomin: It does look like some kind of grass, but I can't tell enough from your picture to tell what type.

You could check this website, to see if anything looks familiar:
https://longislandnatives.com/t/grasses-rushes-sedges

The switchgrass or crinkled hair grass look like possible matches.

I am thinking this is wild buckwheat but am not sure. Anyone have any ideas. I am in Northeast Tennessee.

Looks like morning glories.

Yeah, but look at those flowers. Not your showy funnel shape. I've never seen wild buckwheat, but after looking around a bit, I think >147 TNmasgard: may be right. Inquirer may never check back though.

I did see this fun video by the Hefty brothers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljfmLTAeRbU
Great graphic intro!

Any idea about this one?



Southern California. Appeared for the first time this summer (along with the rain). A typical week’s growth is about eight inches to one foot. (Found one that was hidden that was three feet long.)

>150 rlyons:. You get points for paying attention. Hi and welcome.

Is there an odor to the plant?

>150 rlyons: In my opinion... That looks like a fairly common wild grass that grows here (in the southern desert side of Washington State), and you should spend some quality time pulling it up, before it manages to make seed.

Does it remain erect as it grows?

It's technically a broadleaf, not a grass. The leaves of grass all originate from the collar. These leaves, though narrow, are situated along the stem in an alternating pattern.

http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/weeds_intro.html

Maybe Annual Willowherb - http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/WEEDS/willowherbs.html

>150 rlyons: this looks a lot like some Russian tarragon I once had in my garden. French tarragon is the preferred culinary variety.

https://www.finegardening.com/article/french-tarragon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarragon

>154 NorthernStar: Yah, I kept thinking that's an herb (or a yarb) but @rlyons seems to be just another drive-by poster.

I’ve been nattering on in my main thread about the dandelions. There are several others that distress me as well. Wintercreeper and pussytoes are on that list. And I’ve been digging up quite a few specimens of curly dock and one of those weed grasses that lay flat and look horrible in a lawn.

I’m digging this one up too, but can’t put my finger on its identity:

https://pics.cdn.librarything.com//picsizes/ae/65/ae659f4fb14726e636833797867415...

>156 2wonderY: That looks like a plant that grows here that gets nasty burrs that stick to my dog. Can't recall the name, I'll look it up and add to this post.

The one I'm thinking of is either yellow avens (geum aleppicum) or large-leaved avens (geum macrophyllum). I don't know if they grow in your area, but I'd guess it is at least a relative of theirs.

This one popped up in one of my potted plants and is already twining around the wanted specimen. At first I thought it was pretty, but will have to yank it.

Anyone have any ideas what this is?





There are two of them crowding my sago. It's not far from where I lost my pomelo last year to the freeze in Texas.

I thought y’all might enjoy a specimen from my Weed Management class. Had to press and mount 30 to hand in. Of course I didn’t pace myself adequately to be able to photograph them beforehand. But this was a close duplicate to a rarer Rhomboid Copperleaf, so it stayed home.



I think I have a new hobby.