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Posted by mallory28 5 (My Page) on Fri, Jul 3, 09 at 13:10
| I've posted my images on Photobucket, as they are too large. Any help is appreciated. Particularly on IDing the really large-leaved thing and the purple-flowering thing
http://s222.photobucket.com/albums/dd161/ssmallory/ |
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RE: several plants
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| The purple flowered plant looks like Solanum dulcamara. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Solanum dulcamara
RE: several plants
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| Mystery 12 #1, maybe a plantain. Mystery 12 #2, burdock. Mystery 9, lambs quarters. |
RE: several plants
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| Agree on the S. dulcamara (spreads rampantly by horizontal roots, BTW). Also the burdock and lambsquarters. Mystery 12 #1 I am 95% sure of, unfortunately I can't remember the name for the life of me. It is a native woodland biennial weed. First year looks a lot like a baby purple coneflower, second year it bolts about 2 feet tall and gets teeny little flowers in a spray at the top, which proceed to turn into little burrs that stick everywhere. You've got 2 other early successionals in there (I like to use "early successional" for the native "weeds" and save the word weed for the intoduced ones like burdock and bittersweet nightshade!) Mystery 6 is Circaea lutetiana, Enchanter's Nightshade. Spreads like crazy by little white rhizomes, but is ridiculouly easy to pull up and cedes ground immediately when "better" plants get established. It also has burry seed capsules, though I find them fairly easy to pull out. The 10th & 11th picture are of Geum canadense, White Avens, or a close cousin. Not a totally unattractive plant, but also with sticky seeds. Mystery 5--Black Medic
Mystery 11 (1st one)--I almost forgot the name of this one too, one of those things that, like you said, just shows up everywhere and is obviously a weed (well, actually, another early successional). I believe it is Three-seeded Mercury
Mystery 10--some maple, I'm not sure which, but I don't think it's sugar (that's what I'm used to seeing)
The one after the Burdock--maybe Basswood (Linden)
Next one--an Elderberry?
Next one--some kind of grape
Mystery 7--I think elm I'm curious about the yellow flowers. Seems like I should know what it is too, since our weeds are so similar! |
RE: several plants
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| 10 #1and2 looks like Viburnum opulus, #3 looks like wild grape with an ash growing in the middle of it 7 could be Hackberry 9 lambs quarters 8 Philadelphus? |
RE: several plants
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pics 1-3, Solanum dulcamara (Bittersweet nightshade) a weed
pic 6, Hackelia virginiana (Stickseed) native woodland plant
pic 7, Parietaria pensylvanica (Pennsylvania pellitory) native woodland plant
pics 8,9,12, Viburnum trilobum (Highbush cranberry) native shrub
pics 10,11, Geum canadense) (White avens) native woodland plant
pic 13, Arctium minus (Common Burdock) a weed, to the right Asarum canadense (Wild ginger) a native woodland plant
pics 14,20, Celtis occidentalis (Hackberry) native tree
pic 15, Sambucus spp. (Elderberry) native shrub
pic 16, Vitis riparia (Riverbank grape) native vine, also Fraxinus pennsylvanica (Green ash) native tree
pics 17,18, Chenopodium album (Lambsquarters) a weed
pic 19, Philadelphus (Mockorange) ornamental shrub
pic 21, Circaea lutetiana (Enchanter's nightshade) native woodland plant
pic 22, Medicago lupulina (Black medic) a weed
pic 23, Fraxinus pennsylvanica (Green Ash) native tree
pics 24-28, Sinapis arvensis (Wild mustard) a weed
pic 30, Viola sororia (common blue violet) native
pic 31, Rumex crispus (Curly dock) a weed
pic 36, Hesperis matronalis (Dame's Rocket) invasive weed but pretty
pics 38-40, Phytolacca americana (Pokeweed) native |
RE: several plants
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Thank you very much!
I really like the Dame's Rocket, so I think I will let it be.
And there was some sort of plant that came up with sticky burrs last year, so maybe it. (The burrs were horrible. I swear I didn't even have to touch the plant for them to get to me.) |
RE: several plants
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I really used to like Dame's Rocket too, until I observed how fast it spreads through wild areas and out-competes many native wildflowers. Now I see it so often and in such large quantities it is not so pretty anymore. I have to pull it out by the garbage bag-full from the woods behind my home to keep it from taking over. I would really think twice about keeping it. Canada thistle and Bindweed have pretty flowers too, but would you want them in your yard?
If you do keep it, please grow it in a flower bed where it can be isolated and cut off it's seed pods before they ripen. |
Here is a link that might be useful: US Forest Service Dame's Rocket fact sheet (PDF)
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