That likes to pop up in my flower beds if that is what I think it is. My vote is for weed!!

Looks like goldenrod, some consider them weeds, others a wildflower for fall color and loved by bees.

Karen

OMG, my whole front flowerbed is covered with goldenrod, it is so tall now that I can hardly see my Hydrangea Limelight at all. My daylilies are growing somewhere in that jungle, I am going to have to weed very carefully if I can do it at all, otherwise I will have to be out there with my grandson while he does the job.

I have to admit that last fall the pollinators had a feast on the yellow blossoms, and the hummers seemed to enjoy them too. Still, they have to come out, they are thugs, they would be perfect if I was growing a native garden there.

I've never grown goldenrod, so if that's what these plants are, the birds must have brought them. But they were in almost every pot I have - could the seed be airborne?

Now I'll have to grow them on, just to see what they are.

PV

Yup, seed can be carried around from anywhere, and I'm sure the wind may have something to do with it too. I have it pop up all the time in my beds and I'm always pulling it out.

Karen

phlox? maybe asters.....

That's a weed. It comes up everywhere here w/Johnson Grass.

I thought it was a weed, too. It comes up in my yard occasionally.

Karen

I'm tending toward weed, since it was so plentiful in the pots.

But I'll grow one on, just to see. Maybe it'll have a pretty flower (nad I can have a zillion more in the pots next year) - LOL!

PV

Consider Solidago fireworks. All the beauty with none of the invasiveness or massive sneeze demon.

Regular golden rod is so invasive and welds me eyes shut just by looking at them.

Goldenrod is not the cause for allergies, ragweed, which blooms at the same time, is the culprit, but because goldenrod is more obvious in bloom than ragweed, it gets the blame.

Karen

I vote for weed too. I think it looks like Horseweed.

Rhonda

WEED

Oh my goodness! It's KMOTGG!!!

Sorry. I know. Bad joke. Sorry, PV, I couldn't resist!

This is a very familiar weed. I think it's the same as one that always pops up in my yard, but I don't know the name of it.

I'm almost positive it's not goldenrod. At least not the native goldenrod I have in my yard. (I LOVE my goldenrod!) Gee, almost looks kind of like an aster. Which is why I think its the same weed I have - I'm always afraid to pull it because I think it might be an aster....

:)
Dee