Name That Weed

Post a picture of your weed, and its name if you know it.

If you don't know what it is, we'll all try to help.

Have fun!

Dog Fennel

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Invasive, this stuff "grows like weeds" and has tough tenacious roots that don't like to be removed. It also has an unpleasant smell when cut or bruised.

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Weed Description: A perennial with finely dissected leaves that may reach 6 1/2 feet in height. Dogfennel is primarily a weed of agronomic crops, pastures, hay fields, nurseries and landscapes. It is found throughout the southeastern United States from Massachusetts to Texas.

Stems: Erect, reaching 6 1/2 feet in height, hairy above, sometimes without hairs below. Stems are branched only in the upper 1/3 to 1/2 of the plant. Stems have a somewhat woody base and are often dark red or purple in this area.

Flowers: Flowers are inconspicuous and are produced in the upper branching portions of the plant. Individual flower heads are 2 to 3 mm long and greenish white in color.

Purple Deadnettle

This is all over the fields in the spring, and actually is quite pretty. However, it's not pretty trying to rip it up in my garden!



Purple deadnettle is a common winter annual weed found in North Carolina waste areas. It is similar to henbit in appearance but its upper leaves have short petioles and the lower leaves have long petioles, whereas henbit lacks petioles. Purple deadnettle also has upper leaves that are distinctly red- or purple-tinged. Purple deadnettle and henbit both have distinctive four-sided (square) stems, and flower in early spring.

Carolina Geranium

This is all over my perennial garden. It's a good thing that it is easy to pull up with just a gentle tug. If I ignore it, it takes over.



Carolina geranium is a winter annual or biennial weed that is also called cranesbill because the fruits have a conspicuous "beak" about ½ inch long. The leaves are deeply five- to seven-lobed and each lobe is again lobed and bluntly toothed. The flower is white to lavender and borne two to several together on stalks from the upper nodes. It blooms mostly in April and May.

Oh, the deadnettle! I get it all over my yard (in Pennsylvania), and it is pretty for awhile but then it gets straggly, also it tends to expand if not discouraged. I was lenient initially, but I've cracked down.

Here the most common weed in my yard is mock strawberry, which spreads like crazy and is very shade-tolerant. (At my community garden plot deadnettle is more common.)

But it's nothing compared to the great evil that is puncture vine, my nemesis back in southern Arizona. It thrives in the desert sun, so any area you try to irrigate will be full of the evil stuff, which produces seeds with extremly sharp thorns, arranged tetrahedally so that one thorn always points straight up, strong and sharp enough to puncture a bicycle tire. The seeds can last for years, so it's a long job to eradicate the stuff from your yard or garden.

Ditto the deadnettle here in CT. This is the absolute worst I've ever seen it, probably because our Winter was so mild.

English ivy is an invasive plant that has the state of Washington on red alert.

read on...

Mouseear Chickweed

All over the place, like the other weeds I've posted so far...



Mouseear chickweed acts as a winter annual in eastern North Carolina and as a perennial in the western part of the state, especially at higher elevations. It has a vigorous prostrate growth habit. Hairy stems may creep along the ground and take root at nodes touching the soil. The small, white flowers have five slightly notched petals. Mouseear chickweed is similar in growth habit (spreading) and appearance to common chickweed, but mouseear chickweed leaves are dark green or gray-green, and are covered with soft hairs.

White Clover

I think this is everywhere...do you remember looking for a 4 leaf clover as a child. I used to lie in the grass and search...



White clover is a perennial with creeping stems rooting at some nodes. Leaves have three leaflets with a long erect petiole that is surrounded at the base by a membranous sheath. The flowering heads are borne on long stalks arising from the stems and usually rise above the leaves. The flower cluster may be ½ to 1½ inches in diameter. The petals are white or occasionally tinged with pink.

Cudweed

Aha! So that's what it is called!

If I don't pull it while small, as in this picture, it gets hard to remove later on.



Broadleaf weed with rosette of basal leaves. Leaf color bright and shiny on upper surface. Lower surface of leaves is hairy and grayish, white in color. Reproduces by seed. Often found in dry, sandy conditions.

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Now see, I don't consider white clover a weed. It attracts bees and fixes nitrogen in the soil. I happily allow clover to grow all over my lawn!

From the dailyweed.com:
6 Reasons Clover Is Not a Weed

Yay! A debate! I've always figured a weed is something that grows relentlessly, so even grass would fall under that category. In fact, grass is pretty much a weed when you've got your crop in the ground. By this loose definition, though, weeds aren't necessarily a bad thing.

In my yard, I consider grass to be a weed.

In my family, a weed is something that's growing where you don't want it. So purple deadnettle is fine in my "lawn" but a weed in my flower bed. The English Ivy is welcome until it starts crawling over a door or a window. I'd love to be able to grow white clover, but it doesn't do well in my yard. And I'm with qebo, grass is problem. Give me low growing, broad-leaf weeds any day.

I'm actually now trying to find some sort of native grasses with which I can overseed my lawn in spring and fall. Most grass seed (and all I've found in nearby stores) is non-native grass (or other lawn cover). The idea, I guess, is to reduce the overall amount of my lawn and replace that area with plants of all heights which more closely resemble natural habitat. This will turn out to be a more-than-my-lifetime project.

I have removed my entire lawn (25' x 40') but stray grass keeps sprouting, and if I don't pull it out immediately then it expands into patches. I removed the grass not because of its non-nativeness, but because it needed constant tending beyond the capacity of my manual reel mower. For awhile I let a small patch grow to its natural height, but then the city cited me for weeds. I also want to get native grass, but I guess I better be sure that it looks "ornamental".

You are so brave to do that! I'm afraid to remove anything (even most invasives) until I have something with which to replace it.

For awhile I let a small patch grow to its natural height, but then the city cited me for weeds. LOL!! (although I should not be laughing...)

I have one area of my backyard that I let go "natural" (although I keep a close eye out for invasives). I'm sure my back neighbor does not like that at all as he likes his lawn pristine while my "natural area" shoots all kinds of seeds into his yard (I imagine). :D

Your garden sounds like it will be great (and so much fun to build!). Are you then going to certify it through the National Wildlife Federation as a certified wildlife habitat?

A question about weeds...

Do you consider these weeds and pull them out?

1. Buttercups
2. Dandelions
3. Violets
4. Pokeweed
5. Rose of Sharon
6. Plantain
7. Day lilies

I really never know what to do about these.

18: I didn't remove the lawn all at once. I removed a section for a path. Then I removed another section for raised beds. The path began with digging trenches for gravel and sand, so I had mounds of dirt on tarps over the remaining lawn, and I got annoyed at the sisyphean task of mowing and weeding around them, so I ripped out everything I didn't want and covered the ground with tarps and optimistically assumed that I'd prepare a large garden bed later in the year. Instead I spent two years maintaining tarps. So you are wise to wait.

Hooray! I'm glad you got started on your garden at the same time I'm trying to redo mine.

aulsmith In my family, a weed is something that's growing where you don't want it.

ITA, I totally agree, aulsmith! Buttercups and deadnettle, Carolina geranium, violets, white clover and dandelions are all welcome in my yard, but not in my gardens.

I would LOVE to have a yard of nothing but gardens, but that's going to be a project for the future.

P.S. Dog Fennel and fire ants are not welcome in my yard, and are ruthlessly removed/destroyed whenever possible.

Yellow Woodsorrel

Sort of like clover, but with yellow buttercup-like flowers. Yes, we have them here in NC:



Yellow woodsorrel is an herbaceous perennial common in greenhouse and turf situations. It is most recognizable due to the heart-shaped leaflets that are found three to a leaf. The plant has a shallow taproot, and hairy stems that are 4 to 10 inches tall. Flowers are bright yellow, have five petals, and bloom in early spring (March to April). The fruit is a narrow capsule ½ to 1 inch long. The supporting stalk bends just below the capsule.

Wisteria

Gorgeous, sweet smelling and pretty, these vines are also aggressively invasive and difficult to eradicate. When we first moved into our house, we noticed what looked like roots running across one side of the backyard: they were Wisteria vines. My dh had to take an axe to them and continually cut them back in order to save our yard from being overgrown. There are three types of Wisteria: Japanese, Chinese and American. The first two are invasive, the third, not as much. I'm not sure what we have here, so I'll just list Chinese Wisteria:



Chinese wisteria is a deciduous, woody twining vine that climbs up tree trunks to heights of 60 feet or more. It twines upwards in a clockwise direction. The stems are stout, gray-brown and covered with fine white hairs. Older plants can grow to 15 in. or more in diameter.

The hard woody vines of Chinese wisteria twine tightly around host tree trunks and branches and cut through the host tree bark, eventually girdling and killing it. On the ground, new vines germinating from seed or sprouting from rootstocks form dense thickets that smother and shade out native vegetation and impede natural plant community development. As girdled trees die, canopy gaps are created which increase the amount of sunlight reaching the forest floor. While this may temporarily favor some native species, it also stimulates vigorous growth and spread of wisteria.

Kudzu

The bane of the South (southern United States) is probably Kudzu, a highly invasive vine that was introduced to assist in preventing erosion. Bad move.



Kudzu was first introduced in the Southeastern United States in 1883 at the New Orleans Exposition. The vine was widely marketed in the Southeastern United States as an ornamental plant to be used to shade porches, and in the first half of the 20th century, kudzu was distributed as a high-protein content cattle fodder and as a cover plant to prevent soil erosion. The Soil Erosion Service recommended the use of kudzu to help control erosion of slopes which led to the government-aided distribution of 85 million seedlings and government-funded plantings of kudzu which paid $19.75 per hectare. By 1946, it was estimated that 1.2 million hectares of kudzu had been planted. When boll weevil infestations and the failure of cotton crops drove farmers to move from rural to urban districts, kudzu plantings were left unattended. The climate and environment of the Southeastern United States allowed the kudzu to grow virtually unchecked. In 1953 the United States Department of Agriculture removed kudzu from a list of suggested cover plants and listed it as a weed in 1970. By 1997, the vine was placed on the “Federal Noxious Weed List”. Today, kudzu is estimated to cover 3 million hectares of land in the southeastern United States, mostly in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Mississippi.


House covered with Kudzu...it will grow over and cover anything in its path, trees, powerlines, etc. I have been told that it can grow as quickly as 12" per day if the conditions are perfect.

Wow!!! It looks like a Sci-Fi landscape.

>19 SqueakyChu:
My opinion, for what it's worth
1. Buttercups - Keep them out of your cultivated beds or you'll be sorry.
2. Dandelions - I try to eliminate them entirely. It's kinda my "thang."
3. Violets - They are welcome anywhere they want to find purchase. I love the little dears.
4. Pokeweed - If you let them mature, you will have them sprouting everywhere the next year. Besides, it's an ugly plant.
5. Rose of Sharon - Some of the flowers are beautiful, but again you need to be vigilant in pulling up young volunteers where they aren't wanted. Roots get established, and then you have to excavate.
6. Plantain - This is a transitional plant which will sprout in bare places and then allow other species to take over. It's beneficial in holding soil in place until other species become established. Let it do its thing.
7. Day lilies - I'm surprised you've catagorized them as weeds? The clumps do tend to grow, but they aren't invasive.

:)

Thanks! That helps a lot.

1. Buttercups - I'll keep the buttercups out of cultivated beds, but what about in my lawn?
2. Dandelions - They get kind of ugly so I think I'll eliminate them, but only after they bloom. They're very cheerful flowers.
3. Violets - Love 'em, too!
4. Pokeweed - You're right about the sprouts. Think I'll go pull up the last of the pokeweed and let the birds find some more in the woods.
5. Rose of Sharon - My neighbor has a Rose of Sharon plant so I don't think I need more.
6. Plantain - I'll leave them alone. I really don't have many of them at all.
7. Day lilies - Mine have gotten out of hand and are completely invasive. They multiply regularly and have difficult to dig out tubers. One of my projects will be to replace allmost all of my day lilies.

(26) The first time I saw Kudzu growing all over trees and telephone poles, I thought the same thing: Sci-Fi (Triffids?).

I have several Rose of Sharon bushes/trees that have gotten large, but haven't sent out any shoots...are we talking about the same plant?

Pokeweed is a favorite with wild birds, so even if it is ugly, it's a good ugly plant. :)

(just don't eat the berries yourself, I believe they are poisonous to humans although great for our feathered friends!)

Buttercups are beautiful when allowed to mass and bloom. They are just a fact of life in my yard, I no longer fight them. If you keep your beds well mulched it'll be easier to keep them from taking possession of that space.

I let one pokeweed grow last year (for the birds!)...and now I have pokeweed plants popping up everywhere. :(

I think I'll find/plant something else for the birds this year.

I love buttercups generally. I usually allow them to stay. They, too, are sweet...and are in full bloom now.

>28 fuzzi:

Rose of Sharon puts out many many viable seeds and they try to colonize everywhere in my yard.

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Me too! I'm very happy to have clover in my yard, and even between the planted beds of my vegetable garden; I'll pull it out from planted areas of my garden, however. Nitrogen fixing is great, crowding out my lettuce not so much.

19>

Do you consider these weeds and pull them out?


1. Buttercups
2. Dandelions
3. Violets
4. Pokeweed
5. Rose of Sharon
6. Plantain
7. Day lilies


From my yard, no to 1,2,3, and 7; I had to google 4,5, and 6 (I know "plantain" as a Central American relative of the banana!), and we don't have pokeweed or rose of sharon, and I do treat plantain as a weed.

In the veggie garden, everything I didn't plant, including grass and volunteer tomatoes, is a weed.

lorax, about five years ago I planted French/Petite Marigolds in my vegetable garden. I wanted to 1. attract bees and other pollinators, and 2. Reduce the risk of nematodes.

Also, I planted them because I like them, and where they grew I didn't have to worry about weeds: they would crowd out the weeds.

Every year since then I have not had to plant marigolds, as they reseed themselves. If a marigold is in a good spot, I leave it, but if it's not, I either move it to another better spot or it gets yanked and put in the path.

I love my volunteer marigolds...

Buttercups, pokeweed, Rose of Sharon, and daylilies are not problems here. My top 6 problems are:

1. Creeping Bellflower (Campanula rapunculoides) - my bête noire. I pull it when I find it but leave even a millimeter of root and it'll come back, and NEVER let it bloom and go to seed. Hate it. It's also on the provincial noxious weed list so it's doubly damned. Unfortunately, it's quite pretty and lots of people (who don't know better!) keep it for that reason, so you can never totally get rid of it. It's the only thing I ever use chemical weedkiller on.
2. Dandelions in the flower and vegetable beds get pulled, and I go on periodic digging binges in the lawn, but usually lose steam over the summer.
3. Elm seedlings - we have gorgeous elms on the boulevards but they produce billions of seeds every year that all seem to sprout. Very tedious to weed.
4. chickweed - only a problem in flower and veg beds as it can't out-compete grass.
5. Lilac suckers. I love my big old lilac and the shade it provides, but it suckers something awful and I'm constantly hacking back root suckers from between my patio stones and in the lawn. Some days I almost get to the point of hauling it out and replacing it with a patio umbrella. Pretty sure those don't sucker.
6.Quackgrass (aka couch grass, crab grass, etc.) - again, you need to get all the roots, and it's very difficult. Also if it gets mixed in with another plant you are SOL because you'll never get all the bits and it will come back forever.

Things that I eradicate when I see them but aren't a huge problem: bindweed, plantain, icelandic poppies, goutweed

Anything in my vegetable garden that I did not plant is a weed and gets eradicated, although sometimes I leave a few extra dill plants.

I love clover in the lawn and the little violets that bloom in spring are left pretty much wherever they come up except in the vegetable garden.

The purple deadnettle is all over the place in our yard this year.

Our betes noirs: Vinca, stickyburr, blackberry, various thistles, Scotch broom, nutgrass.

Daylilies we buy; we don't find them invasive at all. It flummoxes me that some people pay for nutgrass.

I like Vincas, but the annual type, not the perennial plant. I'm familiar with the invasiveness of raspberries, and I imagine blackberries are about the same.

I'll have to look up the others you mentioned.

When you say "raspberries", I'm wondering if you really mean the invasive wineberries (Rubus phoenicolasius). I learned how to distinguish them last year after always believing that wineberries were "wild" raspberries.

Like this thread. It reminded me of Greener than you Think. Crabgrass takes over the world.

I've become so interested in what others consider a weed, that I've started a board on Pinterest called Weeds or Not? to seek input of others. Feel free to comment here or there, if you like. This board is a work in progress.

SqueakyChu: I believe that it is raspberries: the leaves of the wineberries are not the same as the berries I am familiar with.

But thanks for the info, I didn't realize there was such a thing as wineberries!

>36 staffordcastle: When you say nutgrass, is that the same as nutsedge? If so, it's high on my list for destruction. Hate that stuff!

Harebells are the bane of my existence. Also sow thistles and various grasses blown in from the farmers' fields.
Japanese anemone are thugs, I'm discovering.
The rosa rugosa is also popping up in the most unwanted places. It may have to come out.

(36) staffordcastle:

We do have nutgrass here, but it's not taken over. I have been pulling it whenever I see it emerge from my gardens. So far, so good.

(42) 2wonderY: it appears that nutgrass is nutsedge:

One of the most baffling and troublesome weeds that plague many gardens today is nut grass. Also known as nutsedge, this pesky grass has tenacious roots and nodules that appear like small nuts.



As far as stickyburr goes, I could not find a real picture. It appears that there is a children's book by that name, and all the images I saw were from that book:



And then there are thistles...

Reminds me that I missed pulling a thistle that has gone to seed. Nurtz!

Dandelions: Weeds definately. Pretty maybe, but very very invasive. Don't know how well they grow over there but here they'll fill a lawn over the course of one summer. To the point where you can't sit (let alone lie) down because there isn't any grass. Cut flower heads will still progress to seed (ie don't compost!) roots will re-grow from small fragments, and even worse, are very soft so pulling on them just snaps it. Two plants then grow from the join. Plus of course the floating seeds get everywhere.

Teasle. PLanted some deliberately because they're fun plants. OtherHalf wanted to try carding wool with the heads as was traditionally done. But the seeds spread very well.

Hoary Willowherb. Again pretty. Not too bad the first year, but the 2nd and ever since they've been constant companions everywhere. - It's the floaty seed issues again I think.

Sycamore trees. By gods do those seeds grow. A carpet of saplings every year. Easy to remove, but still annoyin.

Not Weeds: Yellow poppies. They seem to have spread through eveyones' front gardens but mine. I really like them!

I got a wonderful book from my library called Weeds: Friend or Foe?. It grapples with the same question that we are discussing on the "weeds" thread. It's been a great help in identifying some plants as well as telling me what there is to liek as well as dislike about each plant. :)

47: Oh, that looks useful.

Somewhat related is the "freedom lawn", which allows "weeds" to mix with the grass. Described in Suburban Safari, which I'm reading now, and a quick search yields:
http://joeslandblog.blogspot.com/2006/07/freedom-lawn-or-how-hannah-holmes.html
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/07/21/080721crbo_books_kolbert?...
and a book: Redesigning the American Lawn.

I have always had a Freedom Lawn as I've never wanted pesticides used in my garden. What really helped my lawn this past year was pulling up invasive species. I found Japanese stiltgrass, ground ivy, winged euonymous, and English ivy. Then I seeded the resulting barren spots with grass seed in the fall.

I still have all of my dandelions (very few of them, actually), clover, violets, cinquefoil, and other so-called "weeds" in my lawn. I like my lawn so much more than those which have all the blades of grass standing perpendicular to each other like soldiers ready for a long march. I always examine it for volunteers of new species as well. I hope insects do likewise! :)

I loved Suburban Safari. Great book!

I've been getting patches of common chickweed. I didn't know what it was, googled "little white flower 10 petals" and found it immediately in this wildflower guide: http://www.birdmom.net/wildflowerindex.html, which helpfully categorizes by flower color. Turns out that it's not 10 petals, it's 5 partitioned petals. Also, sadly, because I like it, it is native to Europe and a problem in the US: http://www.na.fs.fed.us/fhp/invasive_plants/weeds/common-chickweed.pdf.

Well, let's cultivate a section of our yards as a weed garden. There we can put weeds that are unloved by others but loved by us. No kidding!

So glad my lawn isn't actually a weed-filled patch but is a Freedom Lawn! You name it, I think it's out there.

I've started looking at my yard (not really a lawn, a lawn=grass!) and am identifying the plants that grow on their own...ie: weeds. I've never really paid attention to them before, not unless they were in my garden.

I just identified a bitter nightshade. I decided it would be okay climbing on the back fence, but nowhere else in my yard. I think I'm going to handle weeds on a case by case basis. Should they be very invasive, they're going to get ripped out. If questionable, I'd consider them if they have some attributes that I like. Bitter nightshade, although poisonous to humans, has berries which are just fine for birds.

54: Oh, I remember one of those where the back yard met the alley when I was a kid. A prominent item, with distinctive flowers and berries, and a revolting smell.

What smelled bad? The flowers?

The berries maybe? We're going back 40 years...

:)

You can really tell from that photo that it's related to all the nightshade-family edibles; those flowers look just like what tomato blossoms would look like if they were purple.

One of the descriptions I read about bitter nightshade said its berries are like miniature tomatoes.

Re "nightshade": consuming any vegetable in the nightshade family (tomatoes, potatoes, eggplant, peppers) has been shown to increase inflammation.

If you have any inflammatory issues, like arthritis or fibromyalgia, do not eat these vegetables.

>42 2wonderY:, 44,
Yep, that's the one. It just breaks when you try to pull it out, so annoying!

Been looking for stickyburr, and find that it is Torilis arvensis, commonly known as hedge parsley. Stickyburr must be a local name for it: highly descriptive.

http://uswildflowers.com/detail.php?SName=Torilis%20arvensis
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=toar

Bitter nightshade: I've got a lot of it, and rather enjoyed it for a while, then got to worrying that neighbors, knowing we have raspberries, might think the nice, red, tomato like berries were edible too. So I've been rooting it out. If you do want to get rid of it, it's best done in the spring as mucking with it in the fall just spreads the seeds around for next year.

Okay, how about a weed identification question? I just got back from the community garden plot, where we have a completely different set of weeds from the yard. The most common thing there has leaves with a shape like a cross-section of a celery stalk only more filled out - curved around in a C shape with scalloped edges. They come in pairs from either side of the stem. Stems have a reddish-purple color. The plant sprawls and the stems act almost like runners. Roots are shallow and easy to pull. Very small light purple trumpet-shaped flowers.

65: Scanning the photos in my handy Weeds of the Northeast for little purple trumpet flowers, not many options, so maybe this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glechoma_hederacea?

> 61

I have a friened who avoids eating nightshade veggies because she says they do indeed increase the discomfort of arthritic symptoms in her hands and wrist.

Lorax - from your description your weed sounds like creeping charlie, and when I followed qebo's link, it is the same weed. My lawn is full of it. Also my garden beds if I'm not careful. It mows nicely, though, and I like flowers in my lawn. Other weeds l have lots of usually are horsetails (equisetum) (native and mostly from a bad load of topsoil years ago, but not wanted in with the vegetables or flowers), dandelions, oxeye daisy, yarrow (nice, and a wildflower, but grows in lots of places I don't want it), manitoba maple (from my neighbour's yard), trembling aspen (suckers from other neighbour's tree and volunteers), chickweed and stinkweed.

I have never used either fertilizer or weed killer on my lawn, and it is full of not-grass plants. It also rarely gets watered, and then mostly so my dog can play in the sprinkler. I always hope for dry weather so it will stop growing and I won't have to mow it!

(68) Northern Star, my dh told me about a coworker who sprayed an herbicide all over his front lawn, and then spray painted it green. He said he was tired of mowing!

>69 fuzzi:: jaw hanging open!

I began my annual battle with the hare bells yesterday. They are EVERYWHERE! Not only do they self seed but they send runners under the ground like grass, with these big long roots like sideways parsnips, from which more of their denizens can attack civilisation. They look like a violet when they are starting out but then they morph into something resembling a brown-eyed susan leaf. Shazzam, up goes a long stalk with purple bell flowers on it. Pretty enough in fields and along the road but they are garden chokers, crowding out the wanted flowers. Sometimes it feels like a science fiction movie, with them lurking just under the soil to reach up and race everywhere, cackling like gremlins as they go. Not like that kudzu monster though (can't remember who posted the pic of the house covered).

tiffin, I posted the picture of kudzu, but your hare bells sound like second cousins to kudzu!

66>

That's the stuff! Thanks.

68>

I wouldn't care if it was in my lawn, but it's in my vegetable garden.

70> your harebells sound exactly like my nemesis, the creeping bellflower. I bet they're the same, but with a different name (like toadflax/butter&eggs). HATE them.

Next Saturday I'm going on a weed pull organized by the local naturalization group and the city. Our target will be garlic mustard, which only grows one place around here and that's the ravine near my home. Should be fun - I love work parties.

Now that's a great idea. Work parties are wonderful.

Tardis, I bet they are. In fact, although the harebell is also a member of the campanula family, the creeping bellflower is what I have, judging from the pics I've just googled. The botanist around the corner gave me the wrong name! Hooray for you for identifying it properly.

tiffin - I was wondering, we get harebells wild in the mountains near here, and they are a lovely flower - don't sound at all like what you have.

Northern, I agree. The harebells ARE pretty (most campanulas are). The creeping bellflowers are too, just not in my flower beds and with the massive underground root system they have creating havoc. Creeping bellflowers it is.

http://www.invasiveplants.ab.ca/Downloads/FS-CreepingBellflower.pdf

This is exactly it.

Aha! "Native harebells can be confused with
creeping bellflower as the flowers are
quite similar, but the native plants can be
distinguished by either much shorter stems,
smaller flowers and leaf size & shape."

We don't have it here, tiffin. I checked a map of my state, and only one small area in the far western areas have it. It probably gets too hot here, or something...

That kudzu scares the tar out of me. I wonder if we get it here--bet it can make it through a winter now, with global warming and our winters being warmer.

It dies back with the first frost, tiffin...

Anyone, can you help me identify this vine? It has little suckers at the end of its tendrils, which help it stick to my metal propane tank.

Also, this ground cover is all over my yard this year. I know it's not violets, at least I'm pretty sure it isn't...

(Picture removed from server, sorry)

Thanks for any and all assistance. :)

The vine is Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia).

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

I'm not sure about the ground cover, but the leaves look a bit like marsh marigold (Caltha palustris). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Marsh_Marigold_2.jpg

>82 fuzzi:

So you don't need any of that seed?

Dear Group,

As a not gardener I live in harmony with my front & back yards. Let grass fight it out with "weeds" in that great Darwinian struggle. Let weeds win if they are fitter.

But...but...The Powers that be, AKA as the local council I pay much money to to collect my garbage and also...collect my garbage (though they do support the Local Library - fuzzy
feelings for that!) and State LAW, decree that certain Plants (specifically "Blackberries" in my case) are NOXIOUS WEEDS and thus proscribed. ie. big fines, if I don't exterminate (Darlek voice here) them.

So every now and then I have a "slash" and Poison regime
even though I don't like poisons. Blackberries are REALLY difficult to eradicate/kill/exterminate.

I was going to post some pictures of my weeds plants but I live in Australia
and other than the usual suspects of international
weed pests, I doubt that they would be relevant to this thread.

Oh, and also I didn't want to see my fellow LT'ers
cringe/avert their eyes upon gazing on my...

Guido.

83: These look like violets to me. What do the roots look like?

My violets are all getting secondary growth this fall after some fairly wet weather (Northeast US zone 4), and your picture looks like what I'm seeing.

(85) I guess not...I didn't think it was Virginia Creeper, based upon the leaves.

Thanks for all the input, fellow gardeners!

(87) I don't know what the roots look like, I've not pulled up any of them. The ground is literally covered with these, and while the leaves are similar to violets, I don't think that they are.

I've double checked images online, and all the wild violets have heart shaped leaves, even when seedlings.

But of course, I could be wrong...

guido47, if the weed were invading other yards, then I could see a slash/burn/poison regime, but if they are contained in your own yard, what business is it of your government to dictate what you can and can't grow in your own space?

Power corrupts....

Hi Group and fuzzi,

Unfortunately Blackberries don't respect my quarter acre
block. They spread into 'creek' beds. They smother and kill everything. Fragile natives have no chance. They are just too successfull! Australia's Plants and Animals were just NOT ready for these "city slickers" from a foreign land in the last 200 years.

You must remember that when we "fuck up" re. introduced pests, we do it well.

Rabbits, Foxes, Feral Cats, European Carp, Cane Toads, Water Buffalo, Camels, Goats...
Just a few of the obvious introduced animals which became
feral.

Savation Jane, Water lillys, Kekua grass, and...and...
I really don't know that much about plants (see my weed patch aka. known as "MY Garden"). Or better Not.

Yes and Blackberries.

All Pests that are hurting Aussie.

Thus, Yes, I do accept/want government intervention.
Hey Fuzzie, you know that I love Cats. Well through Council/local Government intervention I've seen very
few stray kittens in the last 15 years.

Sure, to you it might seem like the "heavy hand of government" but to me "registering" cats etc. seems reasonable.

Sorry, this is a weed thread, not a political thread.

Although I could make a "cheap shot"...

Naw.

Guido.

Guido,

Feel right at home - we've been having that blackberry rant on other threads here.

I agree, NOT violets. I should know what they are, but too much has slipped out one ear or the other this last little while.

83> looks like Canadian Wild Ginger (Asarum canadense), although I've just looked at a lot of pictures and some are round like that but others seem to be more pointed, so I'm not sure.

tardis, thank you. I'm not sure either.

I don't think it's Canadian wild ginger. Its leaf has a true heart shape. The one at >83 fuzzi: is rounder and chubbier. I'm inclined to think it's a wild violet. Look at the leaves in this pic: http://www.gardeningknowhow.com/flower/wild-violets-care.htm
and this one:
http://plantwhateverbringsyoujoy.com/?p=3444

Look like yours, fuzzi?

Found another possibility for the groundcover: lesser celandine (Ranunculus ficaria), also called fig buttercup, "an exotic reported to be invasive in at least seventeen states in the northeastern U.S. from Wisconsin to New Hampshire south to Tennessee and, to date, in one western state, Oregon."

From the pictures I found, the leaves are quite variable.

http://www.oregon.gov/ODA/PLANT/WEEDS/Pages/profile_lessercelandine.aspx

http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/rafi1.htm - the leaves in the centre photo look a lot like your picture.

http://www.dcnr.state.pa.us/forestry/invasivetutorial/Lesser_Celandine.htm

>90 guido47: Guido,

You forgot to mention Indian Mynas, Starlings, Indian Turtledoves and bloody pigeons!

Fuzzi,

Your second groundcover reminds me of Dichondra. https://www.google.com.au/search?q=dichondra&hl=en&qscrl=1&rlz=1T4GG...

Sometimes, when I can't definitely identify a plant, I let it flower to be sure of what it is before I pull it out.

No, tiffin, I don't think they are wild violets, the leaves look 'wrong', but than you for the suggestion. :)

I think that bernsad is on the right track, and that it is Dichondra carolinensis, Carolina Ponysfoot!

The growth habit of my weeds is similar, if not the same as Dichondra carolinensis.

Thanks!

aha, re the ponysfoot. I don't think we have that up here but we do have wild violets!

tiffin, we have tons of wild violets here, that's why I did not think these new weeds were violets: they did not 'look' the same.

Thanks to all for the suggestions!

Kudzu can grow an inch in an hour. It is one of the plants that people can literally watch it grow. In AL, FL and GA a person can be fined or even arrested for planting Kudzu on another person's property. In some parts of the South and Kentucky a person can make a good case for shooting some one for planting Kudzu.

We have a local goat keeper that makes a good living letting her goats solve people's Kudzu headache. Before the goats go in to eat pigs should be sent thru. Pigs love to eat snakes so this keeps the goats safe.

I didn't know that about pigs...

>103 MissRebekahJ:: there was a whole bunch of stuff I didn't know in that post!

>83 fuzzi: That is Miner's Lettuce, and is considered choice to some and a weed to others. What state is this growing in, as I am on the East Coast in NY state and would really like to grow this wild around the house but have nothing to start from.

I'm in eastern NC. :)

I was going to offer seeds of Ragwort to any interested parties, as it is the most prominent wildflower on my property just now, but it seems to have a very muddied reputation:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobaea_vulgaris

It is not native, and is toxic to most farm animals, however, it is a primary food source for several caterpillars.

I think I will harvest some and play with it as a dye source, see what colors I can make.

I have a weed that looks like cudweed, but has flowers that look like dandelion. They are taking over and driving me nuts. It grows in a few areas and usually in a more or less round pattern. Any ideas?

http://www.ricktheriault.net/random_images/weed1-001.jpg

http://www.ricktheriault.net/random_images/weed1-002.jpg

http://www.ricktheriault.net/random_images/weed1-003.jpg

Hawkweed? Happen to have Weeds of the Northeast sitting here on the desk...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Hawkweed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieracium_caespitosum
http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/animalsAndPlants/noxious-weeds/weed-identi...

Ha! You nailed it!! Thanks so much. Now the fight begins...

Your Hawkweed looks a lot like something I have growing in taking over my yard...

Can anyone tell me how to add a picture to my message (post a picture)

First, if it's your picture, you have to upload it to the web. See another thread on this group for a discussion of choices. I've been using Shutterfly recently, as Webshots closed and none of my links worked. You can also add pictures to your profile here, but that gets burdensome.

Then you right click on the picture itself and open properties (bottom choice.) There will be a url address. Copy the whole thing.

Then as you compose your message, use the HTML code as follows

img src="the url address pasted here"

Do use the quotation marks, as they are important.
The thing I can't show you is that you encapsulate the line between the greater than and less than symbols. Those are the angle-like marks above the comma and the period on your keyboard.

I know it sounds long and involved, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes routine.
Practice using a picture already posted, to see whether you can get a picture to appear.

Ask more questions if my directions are confusing.

<
those marks, used as brackets.
If you use them together as below, they disappear.

FYI: I post pictures all the time, but don't use quotation marks...ever.

(Picture removed from server, sorry)

Someone just got royally yelled at on another thread for omitting the quotation marks, as it apparently screws up formats. I didn't understand the technicalities, but I encourage quote marks.

I have not heard about using quotation marks before...? Go figure.

EDIT: I think I found that thread, and the "yeller" was refuted:

According to the HTML 4.01 Document Type Definition, the delimitation of tag attribute values by quotation marks is optional, so long as the value contains only name characters. Many people feel this was a poor design decision in the early days of HTML (and I grant that in practice most URIs include the forward slash which is not a name character). Were you perhaps confusing HTML with XHTML?

But since it appears that quotation marks in HTML are important, although not necessary, I'll endeavor to use them in the future. :)

i have a nasty weed, but how do you upload a picture here? not getting a link...

120: Instructions, along with other useful HTML info:
How to upload a photo and get a link: http://www.librarything.com/topic/35356#3840484 .
How to post the link: http://www.librarything.com/topic/129158#3125117 .

sorry, i got that into my junk drawer, but can't figure out the rest, why not an upload image button right on the post site? oh well, luddite i guess.

OK, you’re halfway there. Next steps:
* Go to back to where you were: Home > Profile > Your Member Gallery (link at right top of page) > Junk Drawer (link at left of page).
* Click the photo you want. This shows a larger version.
* Right click the photo, and select Copy Image Location from the menu.
* Paste to the talk post. You’ll see something like this:
http://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/8e/49/8e49e61e9bcd5d4636b4d316851434b4...
* Now add the HTML code around the link, so it looks like this:
<img src="http://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/8e/49/8e49e61e9bcd5d4636b4d316851434b41716b42.jpg" width="300”>
* Click the Preview button to be sure the image shows up, then click Post Message.

Your mystery weed #2 looks like poison ivy. Leaves of three, Let them be!

I concur with varielle. It looks like poison ivy!

Here is another picture snagged from the web, of poison ivy:



The plants that grow around my yard have more of a jagged look to the leaves, but they are poison ivy nevertheless:

(Photo removed, url no longer found)

Poison ivy expert here.
The shape, color, texture, hairiness and gloss of the leaflets can vary considerably even in the same general geography.

The most likely look-alike you might encounter is Virgin's Bower (Clematis virginiana), one of the specimens on this page:
http://www.namethatplant.net/gallery_comparison.shtml?compare=pinnately%20compou...

I concur with varielle and fuzzi.

Great resource, Ruth! I've bookmarked it for further reference. :)

Here's an interesting, very convincing look-alike - Boston Ivy

whew, got it, thanks, as you can see, close up of leaves, they are a rapid growing vine, and the prolific seeds. the vines are fine like hair.

if somebody tells me this is kudzu i'm going to kill myself :)

That looks like poison ivy to me. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicodendron_radicans

Poison ivy has berries, though.

Kudzu has long bean pods, belagrace05, I don't think it's Kudzu.

nope, not poison ivy, i've got that too and this is different, rounder,smaller, softer leaves, i can handle the heck out of it, no itchy, and spreads by those seeds. it will absolutely fill an area with new seedlings. i've only had it for the past five years, and have no idea where it came from...

Okay, next step, belagrace05:

Where is it growing? Can you give us an approximate location, state? Topography?

Is it growing in the shade, the sun?

What does it do in the winter, turn brown and drop the leaves, or do they turn color? Do they remain all winter?

Help us help you.

Could we be talking about hog peanut?
This page describes it as aggressive.
If so, there should be underground seed production as well as those hanging from the vine.

i'm in ohio, northwest, when you said hog peanut a chill ran down my spine! when i pull them up there is a "bean". my neighbor and i are going crazy because there are no bean pods on the plants themselves. they grow in sun-partsun. they die back in winter, i don't remember a color change, but the vines don't revitalize in the spring, new plants pop up EVERYWHERE!

went to the site, that's it! thanks 2wonderY !

It sounds like a useful plant. If you begin harvesting the edible beans, I'll bet you can control it's presence a little bit better.

contrary to that site, DON'T EVER PUT THAT IN YOUR YARD. it's horrible and your neighbors will curse you.

i am going to try the beans, but it is Extremely invasive, worse than morning-glories, bind weed, etc.

Yeah Ruth! Good job.

I have to say I'm glad for your sake that it's not PI or Kudzu...although Kudzu does not do well in the north...lucky Yankees! :)

no hog peanuts in these parts, thank goodness.

Hello,

I am hoping someone might be able to identify a plant I have in my yard. I have been searching for weeks now, and have found ones that are similar.. but cannot seem to find the exact one. This is driving me crazy lol

I live in SW Washington (usually mild and rainy). The plant started out in the area that used to be my raised garden bed (we took it out a few years ago). I dont know if it is some Herb-garden-escapee (it doesnt smell like any herb)... or if its just an invasive weed. It has spread everywhere! and even into my lawn.

I would like to identify it, so I know if it is poisonous... and whether my chickens can eat it, or if I should try some chemical to get rid of it.

I have not noticed any flowers... so cannot tell what color they may be... or if it even has any. (Hubby runs them over with the mower, so they usually dont get very tall / to the flower-stage).

Description:

Fast growing
Grows in a round cluster with many upright stems
Mostly 6 to 10" tall... but ones in the corner grew about a foot and a half tall
Fern-like leafs, but with rounded tips
Three main leaflets -- opposite -- the bottom two also branch into two
Deeply divided
Hairy on both sides of leaf, and on the stem -- soft hair - no prickles
Back of leaf has prominent veins.
Stems have purplish tint - stems appear round, not square
No sap when stems are broken
No outward smell
No identifiable smell when leaves crushed -- just weedy smell (not like licorice or herbs)


Any suggestions would be appreciated!! Thank you!!

NavyMomxx2 - those leaves look like they could be some type of corydalis, but pretty hard to be sure without flowers.

I just found this... maybe its Herb Robert?? http://www.kingcounty.gov/environment/animalsAndPlants/noxious-weeds/weed-identi...

Could it be a wild geranium?

NavyMomxx2 - the herb robert sure looks like what you have! Good luck getting rid of it.

Looks a lot like herb robert; though the kind we have here (middle of California) has a strong, slightly unpleasant smell when I pull it up. It's pretty easy to pull out, but we have an awful lot of it! Looks pretty when it's young, but gets very leggy as it ages.

I'm in the process of rehabbing my parents' Phoenix backyard/weed sanctuary and I've already come across an amazing variety of flora and fauna. One of them astonished me; it's about 10 feet high, has woody stems/branches up to 1.5 inches in diameter, and has long needle things instead of leaves, with tiny flower buds at the tips. It looks sort of like the first photo of dog fennel on this page, but the needles are alternate rather than opposite, and it doesn't look anything like the second photo. It also doesn't smell like anything. What do you think?

It's a triffid, definitely.

That makes my savage battle with it seem all the more glorious.

It occurred to me that just because it's making my life a nightmare, it doesn't mean it's precisely a weed, and when I started looking at desert plants, I found it right away. It's desert broom: http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/species/basa2.htm

What sharp weapon should I visualize you holding up against a sunset sky?

Naught but a pair of rusty garden shears and an indomitable spirit.

NavyMomxx2
Your plant is definitely Herb Robert, Geranium robertianum. I saw this plant growing in a crevice in a concrete wall in England. I was captivated, I thought I had discovered some kind of fern. When I returned home I I looked it up and discovered it is considered a noxious weed in some states. Dang. Like most babies it is cute when it is young. Then it grows up and becomes a garden thug.

I have two wild plants I am trying to identify.
They are in southeast Texas.

Please check this thread
http://www.librarything.com/topic/158050
in Gardens & Books on posting a picture. You can upload it to your profile and then use the url to show us.

Thank You

Top is very pretty.

Bottom is some kind of vetch.

Two more pictures of the same plants.

That bottom one is a Cola Weed isn't it?

LOL. I think the can was placed there to indicate size.

The yellow flowers remind me of Gaillardia, but not the leaves.

Success the yellow flower is Grindelia, or refereed to as Gumweed.
Perhaps an infusion of catnip and gumweed would help to repel insects.
Thank You fuzzi.

Thank you for giving us the opportunity to guess... ;)

Please help me ID this. Thank you in advance.
Found on cliff near the sea.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/l97ir9nv0i8knl9/20131221_141412.jpg
https://www.dropbox.com/s/i81iexptxaploay/20131221_210328.jpg

Sorry, can't access those pages.

Which sea, Akshay93?

They look a bit like Ponyfoot.

Addendum: I uploaded those two pictures to the gallery.

How do I upload pictures? I have this plant I have no idea what it is but it was in my tomato seeds I received from a friend.

Jmartinson, please see the post up in #157.

I take back my ID of the second picture in #156, as the seed pods look like they have three walls instead of two. That would not be a vetch.

thank you 2wonderY!

alright thanks again 2wonderY! here's the url to a pic of the plant that grew from that seed I found but have no idea what it is! http://www.librarything.com/pic/4202577 thanks and Happy New Year everyone!!

I'm trying to figure out what this weed is. (see my Shutterfly pic..)
https://jkraines.shutterfly.com/pictures/9

It grows in South Texas.
The stems are woody and branch like and it makes a strong trunk / stalk almost like a shrub instead of a grass. They are NOT pleasant to step on in bare feet due to the strength of the plant.
The flowers are like miniature daisies and the seeds are like miniature cotton balls or dandelions, about 1/4" in size (tiny...)

I don't know what it looks like if it grows taller as I mow the lawn regularly, but it survives even in a well watered, fertilized, weed killer treated lawn full of St. Augustine grass.

Thanks in advance!

Have you got a photo of a plant that's not dead? Something with leaves and flowers that might be identifiable.

It's not dead, just dormant for the winter. I'll get a pic of an active one later this spring. With the St. Augustine all yellowed from a heavy frost, it was easy to find the green and brown weeds last week.

173 > Looks a little like a type of tumbleweed.

This is Ponyfoot and it makes a very nice ground cover. In fact, some people are growing it instead of grass. It showed up in my yard about 3 years ago (just south of Charlotte, NC) and I sent photos to a plant identification expert and he told me what it was. It's edible as well. Here's a link with information: http://www.foragingtexas.com/2007/05/ponys-foot.html

Hey! That was a fast find us, kcpaull. Welcome to the group and LibraryThing.

We were just talking about groundcover plants which function as mulch. Ponyfoot appears to fit the bill.

Getting slow to load...time to continue the topic in thread #2!

i live in the state of Georgia and i have this weed growing and i do not know what it is called, also it has a small purple flower ...how do i post a picture???

>179 diana.dellana: join us in the second thread (http://www.librarything.com/topic/171354). I'll give you directions there. :)

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.

hi, picture 129 is a vine with little seed packs. i have that also and am in the Chicago area. mine does not have a seed in the ground. the pic of hog peanut has a purple flower. do u know what that plant is? thanks

I am new to this site and trying to post a picture of a weed that I would like to identify, but not sure how. Can you help?

>24 fuzzi: When we moved in here 7 years ago there was a wisterisia growing into the roof. As the neighbor said that she dreaded the blossom every year because of headaches, I cut it off at the ground, and removed the vine as high as I could get.

This year there were only 3 shoots coming up in May.

What is this? Has velcro like stems that stick when brushed against and sticks to gloves etc when weeding. Very allergic to it and would like to put a name with my gardening archenemy. The stems are square, I've looked for hours to name this horror to my Ohio Gardening experience. Help Please.

http://s189.photobucket.com/user/mysticangel3/media/allergyvine.jpg.html

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z197/mysticangel3/allergyvine.jpg

I am sorry but I do not know how to embed the photo. Hope you can see it at photobucket.

>186 Allergic: Hops (Humulus japonicus)?
http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/huja1.htm

>181 HipChick::

That looks like garlic mustard to me.

>182 HipChick::

There are at least two different plants in those three photos. The one that dominates in #1 and #3 (with the serrated leaves in trios) looks like mock strawberry. Does it have little yellow flowers, or little red fruits that look vaguely strawberry-ish? (They don't taste good, but they aren't poisonous.)

Could the middle one be a sassafras seedling?
(post 182)

>189 jljames1_79: I see what you're looking at, but this


is sassafras.

I think that leaf >182 HipChick: is a triple leaflet palmate, with the secondary leaflets mitten shaped.

The plant shown in post #129 is Climbing False Buckwheat (Polygonum scandens) http://luirig.altervista.org/schedenam/fnam.php?taxon=Polygonum+scandens

I've tried to identify this Michigan lawn weed and have failed. Carrot family maybe?
Help.

Chickweed is my first reaction, but perhaps Mouseear Chickweed is more precise. Let's look at the flowers. Mouseear has 5 deeply split petals.

The other possibility is Cleavers, but the leaf distribution doesn't look quite right.

So we can look at them side by side

Mouse-ear Chickweed

Thanks... Looks like Mouse-ear Chickweed to me.

I put Trimec on yesterday morning. If there is pocket of survival I'll leave it be until it flowers so I can get a photo.

It's fall and cleanup time. This plant volunteered beneath our deck; never seen it here or elsewhere in central Oregon. Our area is high mountain desert with growing season typically defined as Memorial to Labor Day. During that period temperatures vary about 30-40 degrees between day time highs and night time lows. Precipitation is low but this plant may have enjoyed runoff from drip irrigation used to water potted plants on the deck. The area it is growing in has fertile soil mixed with large rocks on a canyon rim that overlooks a large river about 100 feet below our deck. If it's a wild fruiting plant I'll leave it but otherwise plan to pull as much as I can. Though it has "leaves of three" it's unlikely poison ivy as it has many and very sharp thorns along the stem.

Unfortunately I cannot figure out how to post a picture of it here. I'd appreciate guidance.

>196 oreddie: Hi. see above

http://www.librarything.com/topic/136783#4168191

How do I post a picture?

How do I post pics? There is no way to post.

Help, I have no idea what this is!!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Cmo3VWoVIAApawG.jpg

>199 DocCombat: look at post 197:

First, if it's your picture, you have to upload it to the web. See another thread on this group for a discussion of choices. I've been using Shutterfly recently, as Webshots closed and none of my links worked. You can also add pictures to your profile here, but that gets burdensome.

Then you right click on the picture itself and open properties (bottom choice.) There will be a url address. Copy the whole thing.

Then as you compose your message, use the HTML code as follows

img src="the url address pasted here"

Do use the quotation marks, as they are important.
The thing I can't show you is that you encapsulate the line between the greater than and less than symbols. Those are the angle-like marks above the comma and the period on your keyboard.

I know it sounds long and involved, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes routine.

Practice using a picture already posted, to see whether you can get a picture to appear.

Help, I have no idea what this is growing in my back yard!

fuzzi,

I used a pic i posted to my twitter, you think that will work?

I can see it, but don't know what it is.

Where do you live?

This topic was continued long ago because it takes too long to load.

fuzzi,
I live in San Antonio Tx. I though it was rosinweed from my research but the leaves are more oval and most all pics I've seen of rosinweed the leaves and more pointed. They pull up rather easy even at this ones height of anout 5 feet. Just not sure what it is and if it's good to have or just a nuisance.

>206 DocCombat: You can post to the Ag Extension website and get an answer: https://ask.extension.org

Hi, where do I post a picture? If you can't see my weed, you won't be able to help:)

>208 bmarie7: please post your picture in the most current thread, here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/171354#

Here are instructions on how to post your picture: http://www.librarything.com/topic/136783#4256569

I found this in some woods in Virginia Appalachia, and can't find it anywhere in a book. It has a stem with a seed pod. There are five of these plants under pine trees in a dry area but none in a damp area; all of them had just two leaves: ovoid, 5-6", 5 almost parallel veins; stem with ridged pod is 16" tall with a little leaf opposite the pod. Elevation is about 2500 feet. Anybody know this one?

Wait, how do I add a picture?

>210 RiniL: please read post # 209 for a link that will help answer your question, and show you where to post your picture, thanks.

A weed that looks like lambs quarters but has small star flower. White with yellow center. What is it???

What's the name of this plant/weed? Thanks. :))

http://pics.cdn.librarything.com/picsizes/2b/ab/2baba91e4c89118636f52796e77434b4...

what's the name of this plant/weed? it's a requirement for one of my subjects. thanks.:)

I have this thing going on for our research 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 glossy 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.

-I don't know how to attach the photo

>215 Enzee: I can't really help you without a photo, but somebody else said this about posting a picture here:

Here are instructions on how to post your picture: http://www.librarything.com/topic/136783#4256569

How do you add a picture

Hi.. is this Box Elder or Poison Ivy? I live in NY State. There's no red in the stem so thinking Box Elder. http://l.yimg.com/cv/ae/default/170528/IMG_9119.JPG

Hi there,
This looks like an active discussion so I'll try my luck with a plant I can't identify. I live in a suburb of Minneapolis and have a woodland edge on one side of my property. We get these every year and I cannot for the life of me figure out what they are...

This is someone else's photo but mine looks exactly like this. It's NOT nettle or thistle of any kind, and my next best guess is a geranium but that's not quite right either. It has a square stem, toothed leaves and hairs on the bottom of the leaf only. The leaf shape vaguely resembles cannabis or a maple leaf, but more similar to a maple leaf as it's not palmate. Right now most of the plants are 2-3 feet tall and I don't recall what the flowers were like last year. It smells unpleasant to me. And I should mention the leaves elongate to look less stubby than that picture. My toddler just ripped up the leaf I brought in so if this isn't sufficient I can go get a better photo.

http://www.flowershopnetwork.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/rheum.jpg

I can usually figure out what I'm looking at with the Missouri Weed ID guide but this doesn't seem to be on there (or I"m really missing the mark with IDing it)

Any thoughts?

>219 LinaJo: - Leaves look a bit like some kind of delphinium, but I did a bit of online research and think it is Motherwort (Leonurus cardiaca)

based on these postings: http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1402451/
https://extension.umass.edu/landscape/sites/landscape/files/weeds/stems/lecca925...
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1394881/

>218 KelliG22: - I don't think it's poison ivy, but not sure what it is. You can get a lot of information by googling poison ivy!

And this discussion should really be in the new thread.

>218 KelliG22: That's not poison ivy, but the other plant is the dread wintercreeper.

This plant is in my yard. Is it a weed or possibly a flower, like a poppy? Well, I can't see how to post a pic......

Is this Chickweed? It's a very low growing, ground hugging weed that grows in patches throughout my grass. I haven't seen the flower yet. I should mention that I'm living in Switzerland but thought I would try my luck here.

https://www.librarything.com/pic/5837037

Here is closeup of the the weed pulled from the ground.

https://www.librarything.com/pic/5837035

Any thoughts? Thanks

After a couple of more days searching the web I think I have finally identified it as Selfheal.

What weed is this? I was told rhubarb plant? Where did pic go?

Hi, any help identifying this week. Am afraid it could be a Knotweed of some variety. Thanks in advance.

https://www.librarything.com/pic/5932998

https://www.librarything.com/pic/5932997

https://www.librarything.com/pic/5932996

Mustang Grape??
I was given to understand that this monster that is all over our neighborhood is Mustang Grape, but I am a bit doubtful, so I would appreciate any help you can provide. I cannot figure out how to insert a picture - I suffer from severe pain, and have lost my processor, so...

It is a pernicious vine that tries to strangle everything that it is attached to. It's leaves are like Maple tree leaves - the Canadian flag shows a stylized version. I remove it from every plant that it attaches to, because it will kill it. Digging out the roots doesn't seem to kill it off; I am unsure whether it propagates through seeds or small bits of roots that remain.

For those coming to this thread with new weeds...the thread was continued. Some time ago. There's a note above the "add a message" box...in bold: This topic was continued by Name That Weed - Thread #2.

Please help me identify this weed. THank you.

For those coming to this thread with new weeds...the thread was continued. Some time ago. There's a note above the "add a message" box...in bold: This topic was continued by Name That Weed - Thread #2.

>231 qebo: Some time ago.
March 2014 :-) Since the continuation, most inquiries are from people who created accounts in order to post on this thread. Why here, I don't know.

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/ .

>232 lesmel: March 2014
Oh, I know. I just generally like to understate how...oblivious...the new posters are.

Hi, Im looking to identify this plant I found growing in our sand pile for my mother who wants to know what it is before she decides whether to get rid of it or keep it. It has large serrated Ivy looking leaves on a central stalk which branches by itself and the white narrow trumpet like flowers grew from the top and become these medium sized egg shaped prickly fruit. If someone could help me with this that would be great.

>236 qebo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datura_stramonium ?

Thanks qebo, this is the one.

How do I post a pic of a weed I want to identify? Maybe it's just my phone isn't displaying all the love now... I don't see how to accomplish it.

How do I post a photo to ask for help?

I have something growing in my flower bed and I don’t know if it’s a weed or not.

How do I post a picture?

I ran across this weed while walking around a pasture/field near my home. It struck me as pretty so I photographed. Now I can't identify it. I have tried sending photo to Google images and have search numerous sites for information but have not had any luck. A friend from Oregon on FB suggested I post here. I live in the Piedmont area of NC.
https://scontent.fcae1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/32699985_10212540503891251_67431...

How do I post pictures?

This is a new lawn weed and I don't know what it is. We are in south Texas. Can anyone help?

Just settin' here scratchin' my head....

>244 2wonderY: :-)

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.)

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Sorry about the duplication, but there are postings here from February, and Thread #2 had nothing since 2018 and was considered dormant, so I wasn't sure where to post my query or if anyone was still listening.

Any help appreciated. Thanks.

I’m trying to identify a weed, how do I add a picture?

>247 bunneh: First you might have the sense to read the thread where you are posting; as directions on how to add photos is described MULTIPLE TIMES. Then you might notice that there is a more current continuation thread, as noted just above where you added your query.

Hi! I found you while doing a search to identify a "weed" that showed up last spring. Saw today that it has reseeded!! It's beautiful. It may have been brought courtesy of hurricane Florence. I live in coastal eastern NC.
I have pics but I don't see how to upload them.

Thanks!!
Stephanie