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Please help ID this plant

I'm getting ready to pull this out but wanted to find out what it is before tearing out. sorry 2 pics are blurry.

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I get those too - most definitely a weed but can’t remember what it is. Makes tons of seeds from those tiny flowers so hurry and rid.

This weed is attractive to 4-lined plant bugs So I do sometimes use them as trapcrop in spring-early summer— 4lined plantbugs are horrible to mints, oregano, lemon balm, etc.

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applestar wrote:
Wed Aug 12, 2020 11:49 am
I get those too - most definitely a weed but can’t remember what it is. Makes tons of seeds from those tiny flowers so hurry and rid.
Thanks, Ill be tearing it out this weekend with my nasty Goji berry plant.

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I'm afraid I don't what it is either, but these grow all over the place in northern Illinois. It's definitely a weed. It propagates very quickly and successfully.

The good news is that it's easy to pull out. And if you pull them all out, in future years you'll have only a few to pull out going forward. So as weeds go, it's a very easy one to control.

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It was ID'd in another forum as,
Acalypha rhomboidea (Three-seeded Mercury)

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Ooh thanks for the follow up. :D



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