1Enzee
Hi guys, I am new here and I really need your help. I have this thing going on right now and yet I’m still not settled in with the name of the weed I want to work with.
It grows all over our place and commonly seen in bricks, gardens and in corners, and has a minty smell. What I’ve observed that it grows ranging from 3-5 inches (not yet fully matured). It has this lighter or darker green color of leaves, and glassy greenish or reddish stem and roots. Can easily be pulled out and break. I’ve been curious about this weed because we used to play around with this when I was a kid. I did check if it’s chickweed or not, but chickweed grows out flowers and this one doesn’t.
It grows all over our place and commonly seen in bricks, gardens and in corners, and has a minty smell. What I’ve observed that it grows ranging from 3-5 inches (not yet fully matured). It has this lighter or darker green color of leaves, and glassy greenish or reddish stem and roots. Can easily be pulled out and break. I’ve been curious about this weed because we used to play around with this when I was a kid. I did check if it’s chickweed or not, but chickweed grows out flowers and this one doesn’t.
2smirks4u
>1 Enzee: Like the robot in the movie Short Circuit; I need input.
Is a cross section of the stem squarish? Are the leaf positions opposite one another and at right angles from the next lower leaf sets? If so, 95% likelihood that it is in the Lamiaceae; or the true mint family. Most plants have flowers sometime. Reddish stems can be genetic norms, or a reaction of the plant from abundant sunlight. I cannot tell your location from your profile. You can scan images on a web search with various diagnostic indices.
Is a cross section of the stem squarish? Are the leaf positions opposite one another and at right angles from the next lower leaf sets? If so, 95% likelihood that it is in the Lamiaceae; or the true mint family. Most plants have flowers sometime. Reddish stems can be genetic norms, or a reaction of the plant from abundant sunlight. I cannot tell your location from your profile. You can scan images on a web search with various diagnostic indices.
3smirks4u
By the way, Chickweed has tiny, white, five-petalled flowers. The petals are so deeply divided, such that it appears to have ten little petals. It is a recumbent succulent, that may grow to 20 inches or so. Chickweed is excellent to eat, and is probably better than many ingredients in a $15 salad elsewhere. If a person has a bruise/contusion, bruised or mulched chickweed can be wrapped in plastic wrap around the bruise to give some relief and aid healing.
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