identify plant?

[alice[_2_]]

Can anyone identify this plant? http://www.fearofdolls.com/whatplant.JPG
I planted a Japanese Maple, and out of the blue this started to
quikcly grow underneath it.

[JoeSpareBedroom]

"alice" > wrote in message
ups.com...
> Can anyone identify this plant? http://www.fearofdolls.com/whatplant.JPG
> I planted a Japanese Maple, and out of the blue this started to
> quikcly grow underneath it.
>

I don't know, but those are interesting leaves. Where do you live? If that's
a native plant, it might help others to know your location.

[alice[_2_]]

On Jul 1, 3:56 pm, Janet Baraclough >
wrote:
> > "alice" > wrote in message
> ups.com...
> > > Can anyone identify this plant?http://www.fearofdolls.com/whatplant.JPG
> > > I planted a Japanese Maple, and out of the blue this started to
> > > quikcly grow underneath it.
>
> It's one of the polygonum/persicaria family, a fast growing weed :-)
>
> Janet.

So it is a weed? Meaning it grows fast and is usually undesireable and
potentially takes away from other plants around it?

[JoeSpareBedroom]

"alice" > wrote in message
oups.com...
> On Jul 1, 3:56 pm, Janet Baraclough >
> wrote:
>> > "alice" > wrote in message
>> ups.com...
>> > > Can anyone identify this
>> > > plant?http://www.fearofdolls.com/whatplant.JPG
>> > > I planted a Japanese Maple, and out of the blue this started to
>> > > quikcly grow underneath it.
>>
>> It's one of the polygonum/persicaria family, a fast growing weed :-)
>>
>> Janet.
>
> So it is a weed? Meaning it grows fast and is usually undesireable and
> potentially takes away from other plants around it?
>


Any plant you don't want in a certain place is a weed. That could mean
dandelions, or it could mean the Four O'Clocks you intentionally planted two
years ago, whose fat seeds are still sprouting all over the place.

Your next step would be to do a google search using the words Janet
provided, and see if you can get a more accurate ID on the plant. You will
need to know where you live, since the plant MIGHT be particular only to
certain region. Your city and state should be on your driver's license, or
anything you get in the mail.

The reason to research it further is that some "weeds" are useful. So, you
need to read more about its habits.

[jangchub]

On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:14:52 -0700, alice >
wrote:


>So it is a weed? Meaning it grows fast and is usually undesireable and
>potentially takes away from other plants around it?

If you like it, it's not a weed. You may want to see how it behaves
and if it is potentially invasive, which it is not in my USDA Zone 8b,
but is definitely perennial. I love mine, but I have a cultivar.
Don't know which at the moment, but the foliage of mine is much darker
purple with darker center splotches with picotee on the edges of
creamy color.

I love it mixed in with Japanese ferns.

[beecrofter]

On Jul 1, 4:54 pm, alice > wrote:
> Can anyone identify this plant?http://www.fearofdolls.com/whatplant.JPG
> I planted a Japanese Maple, and out of the blue this started to
> quikcly grow underneath it.

It appears to be Pennsylvania Smartweed.

[Ann]

beecrofter > expounded:

>On Jul 1, 4:54 pm, alice > wrote:
>> Can anyone identify this plant?http://www.fearofdolls.com/whatplant.JPG
>> I planted a Japanese Maple, and out of the blue this started to
>> quikcly grow underneath it.
>
>It appears to be Pennsylvania Smartweed.

Ah, I thought it was a smartweed, I got loads of it in horse manure a
few years ago. Polygonum pensylvanicum. Nothing I'd want in my
garden, at least in the quantities it usually arrives in!
--
Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
South of Boston, Massachusetts
e-mail address is not checked
******************************

[beecrofter]

On Jul 2, 5:31 pm, Ann > wrote:
> beecrofter > expounded:
>
> >On Jul 1, 4:54 pm, alice > wrote:
> >> Can anyone identify this plant?http://www.fearofdolls.com/whatplant.JPG
> >> I planted a Japanese Maple, and out of the blue this started to
> >> quikcly grow underneath it.
>
> >It appears to be Pennsylvania Smartweed.
>
> Ah, I thought it was a smartweed, I got loads of it in horse manure a
> few years ago. Polygonum pensylvanicum. Nothing I'd want in my
> garden, at least in the quantities it usually arrives in!
> --
> Ann, gardening in Zone 6a
> South of Boston, Massachusetts
> e-mail address is not checked
> ******************************

How fortunate

My free gift with horse nanure was bindweed and dodder.