I keep seeing this assortment of weeds growing along the road and am very curious about what they are. Does anyone see horseweed among the bunch?
Weed One.
(1a)
(1b)
(1c)
Weed Two:
I'm not sure if this is the same weed at a different stage or not.
(2a)
(3a)
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(4a)
(5a)
Weed 3
This is what I thought might be horseweed but I don't know.
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Weed one and weed two are different I think and I'm going by the leaves. W2 is shaggy and w1 looks spindly but organized. Photo 1a is an interesting pic. Was that taken while overcast and what time of day?
Not sure what it is... Either... And I've looked thru so many yellow flower pictures too! Ha ha
Not sure what it is... Either... And I've looked thru so many yellow flower pictures too! Ha ha
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I just took the photo shortly before posting it but I've already forgotten the time of day. Probably early afternoon, sunny. I know it's a bad photo but I'm no photographer, that's for sure.watermelonpunch wrote:Weed one and weed two are different I think and I'm going by the leaves. W2 is shaggy and w1 looks spindly but organized. Photo 1a is an interesting pic. Was that taken while overcast and what time of day?
Not sure what it is... Either... And I've looked thru so many yellow flower pictures too! Ha ha
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Weird, I posted a reply to this and it's nowhere to be seen. Sorry if you get two replies. Anyway, I'm sure you are right about the spurge. I looked it up on the U of M website and it looks like Leafy Spurge which does grow in this county. I'm glad you identified the grass because I wanted to know but not ask another question. Here is another photo of that weed I thought might be horseweed next to the grass:applestar wrote:1 is spurge/euphorbia of some kind
3 is not horseweed, I think, unless these are taller than they look in the picture
3a looks familiar but ID escapes me and am too tired to look it up
In the extreme foreground of 4a, I think I see quack grass.
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Quack grass is supposed to be a good slug repellent/killer if chopped into pieces. I have trouble ID'ing it except when the seed stalk unfolds, so when that happens (which is now). I trim the seed heads off to dispose or scatter where I want them, then trim the rest of the grass to use. You can run over them with the mulching mower, too, for general/random application.
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I'm sorry, purpleinopp, somehow I overlooked your comment. Bitter cress certainly has leaves that look much like those in my photo but mine seem more like seeds and I can't find anything quite like that. I will go through a bunch of cress plants listed on the UM site and see of something matches. Thank you.purpleinopp wrote:Look at bittercress, and Capsella.
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I am now 100% sure you are right, purpleinopp. Somehow, I started looking at peppergrass and ended up looking at several different cress plants. These all look like possibilities: Lepidium Virginicum, Lepidium densiflorum, Lepidium ruderale. Now, I'll do a closer study of each. Thanks again for your help