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Weed?

Posted by bbms88 Pensacola,FL (My Page) on
Sun, Jan 31, 10 at 14:19

This plant endured the freeze when all others died. It must be something I didn't plant! Thanks in advance! Mark

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RE: Weed?

  • Posted by bboy USDA 8 Sunset 5 WA (My Page) on
    Sun, Jan 31, 10 at 21:23

Looks like the flowers of a mustard.


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RE: Weed?

I can't locate a mustard plant with that flower, or serrated leaves. Thanks, though! Mark


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RE: Weed?

There are quite a few different plants in the mustard family that have similar flowers - seeing the leaves would have helped. Below is the wikipedia entry for mustard that will give you some different plants to check out.

You can also check out wild radish Raphanus raphanistrum and compare to your plant.

FataMorgana

Here is a link that might be useful: Wikipedia - Brassica


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RE: Weed?

I planted a spicy mesclun mix that I let flower and go to seed; some of the flowers on those plants looked like that. They were mostly members of the mustard family, as I recall. Or lettuces.

WW


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The leaves are totally wrong for the common wild mustard or the wild radish in Florida this time of year. Blossoming right now is the R. raphanistrum. You can tell that from the common mustard several ways. The radish has blossom petals with obvious veins, mustard blossoms do not have obvious veins. The radish has singular flowers on a stem, the mustard clusters. The seed pod on the radish is segmented, the mustard is not. The radish grows to about two feet high, the mustard can reach six feet. But again, in the photo presented the leaves are wrong for either plant.


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RE: Raphanus raphanistrum is it!

Thanks! I seem to have a knack for attracting/growing invasive weeds instead of what I really want to grow!


 
 

 

 


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