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Pretty weed ID please!
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Posted by
karate626 7A Maryland (
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Sun, Jul 1, 12 at 19:47
| At my summer condo in ocean city Maryland this plant just sprouted. I think it is neat looking. What is it? Can it be transplanted? Is it a perennial?
Here are 2 pics:
Thanks!
T.J. |
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RE: Pretty weed ID please!
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| My uneducated guess is Nigella (Love in a Mist). Lovely and ferny. |
Here is a link that might be useful: Nigella Foliage
RE: Pretty weed ID please!
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| Cold it be field horsetail? |
Here is a link that might be useful: Equisetum Arvense
RE: Pretty weed ID please!
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| Possibly Eupatorium capillifolium, Dog Fennel. Crush a leaf or two -- if it has a rather foul odor, it's Dog Fennel. If that is what you have, yes, it's perennial. And its considered a weed. |
RE: Pretty weed ID please!
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| It's definitely not E. arvense. |
RE: Pretty weed ID please!
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| I'd go with the Dog Fennel, like denninmi. Definitely not Nigella or Equisetum. |
RE: Pretty weed ID please!
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| Thanks! It's dog fennel. I don't know why it is considered a weed. It's so nice looking in my garden. TJ |
RE: Pretty weed ID please!
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| Yeah, even though it is a weed and it smells funky, it's attractive. One grower on our local farmer's market was selling it this spring in one gallons for $8 each as a foliage filler for combo pots. I don't know if she came up with this herself or found it in a catalog. I know it isn't native here in Michigan, but it is commonly seen in nursery stock imported from TN, so it tends to sprout up around new plantings of things. I've seen it quite a few times growing at the base of newly installed landscape plantings. |
RE: Pretty weed ID please!
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| Yeah, even though it is a weed and it smells funky, it's attractive. One grower on our local farmer's market was selling it this spring in one gallons for $8 each as a foliage filler for combo pots. I don't know if she came up with this herself or found it in a catalog. I know it isn't native here in Michigan, but it is commonly seen in nursery stock imported from TN, so it tends to sprout up around new plantings of things. I've seen it quite a few times growing at the base of newly installed landscape plantings. |
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