Showing posts with label plant identification. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plant identification. Show all posts

Monday, May 12, 2014

Help me identify some plants


Last year my faithful readers help me identify a couple of plants in my new front yard. I got a couple more for you, and I hope you can help me identify them.

 I plant the clover, what's the big fuzzy thing? 
 Sorry it's not the best picture, but what's the large leafed plant in the center?

 So this looks intentional, but what is it?

 Creeping Charlie. Check. What the thing in the middle that kind of looks like nettles, but I don't think it is?

Sunday, June 30, 2013

New plant to identify

THANK YOU to all who have helped me identify a few plants. The ragweed and others are now pulled out of my orchard, and the trumpet vine is no longer threatening the house foundation or the neighboring herbs. I left some purslane in a few areas and I'll try nibbling on it.

Now for a new one. We have an open space with freshly dug dirt and I noticed a plant today that I've never seen before. It looks "purposeful" if that's a term, but I have no idea what it could be. While mowing I spared it to see what it is.

The green leaves have a silvery tone to them, and the stem and underside of the leaves are quite silvery.



Saturday, June 22, 2013

Weed identification - the answers

Thank you to the many folks who helped identify the following seven plants.


Ragweed. I did my neighbors with allergies a favor and pulled it.

Perhaps a type of mustard or shepherds purse, but as Molly wrote, "Anything that flowers that fast is suspect." Math and Tamara think it's field pennycress. I pulled it, but oddly, before ID'ing it, I bought a pennycress plant from a farmer's market herb stall. Unsure, I pulled it.

Yarrow, an insect attractor, tends to be on permaculture lists of "good plants." I did get one warning that it spreads and is hard to get rid of once it's established. I decided to leave it.

ID'd as pigweed or redroot, amaranthus. Most people thought it was edible, though one said no. I pulled it. 
  

Zinnia - an annual flower from seed I threw in with the clover just to see what would happen. The largest of these plants have a flower starting, I left it.






Purslain - edible and delicious according to most people. I left it.


This domestic number is fast outgrowing my patience. I'm going to hack it back this weekend.



Wednesday, June 19, 2013

More plant identification

While the comments on my blog post asking for help identifying weeds don't reflect it, I got a lot of great email helping ID the plants. The comments function on the blog seems to be broken, my apologies for that. Regardless, here are two more plants to identify.

This is a low-growing plant I found among my onions. Any ideas? Edible, useful?





And this is a photo of a perennial planted near the foundation of our house. It's starting to vine all over the place. What is it?

Close up of leaves