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Native Plant ID help needed Phila., PA

What is this?

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There are "vanilla bean like pods" on this plant

Further research says it might be "Hemp dogbane", a species commonly called Indian Hemp (Apocynum cannabinum)

It's in our parking lot at work I may dig it up and add it to my garden.

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Caution: Apocynum equals "poisonous to dogs."

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It looks a little bit different from dogbane that popped up in my front yard a few years ago.

Doe it produce milky latex sap when leaf or stem is broken?

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applestar wrote:It looks a little bit different from dogbane that popped up in my front yard a few years ago.

Doe it produce milky latex sap when leaf or stem is broken?
Not sure, I hate to bust it up, but if you are thinking its Milkweed I'm sure it isn't.

As Told2b pointed out its poisonous, I decided to leave it be as its poisonous to animals, and my stupid shepherd would eat it!

indian hemp

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Yeah that sap test was how To tell from dogbane to Milkweed, that and the side branches from almost every leafnode on the dogbane.

I have 6 different species of Milkweed in my butterfly garden and they all look very different in plant sizes and leaf shapes, so I like to check just in case. :wink:



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