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Help identify this small white flower/weed
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... We've got something growing out back that I'm trying to identify before chopping it down. I live in the Northern panhandle of WV. What the plant / flower looks like: The plants are currently 1 to 2 feet tall. They have clusters of small white flowers, approx. 1/8" in diameter, a few inches from the top of the plant only. The flower has 4 petals and yellowish 'centers'. The flowers are either "arranged" around a bunch of little nubby things, or else the ones I see now are not fully flowered out and these are immature flowers that will later open up. The most curious thing about the cluster of flowers I picked off is that the central cluster on the top of the stem has little "arms" going up from the stem to alongside the flowers. I can only describe the appearance of this as "looking like a menorah" with the flowers clustered on what would be the center "candle" of it. The leaves are pinnate and have slightly sawtoothed/dagged edges. You have rather precisely described the European-origin invasive known as garlic mustard - Alliaria petiolata. http://webapps.lib.uconn.edu/ipane/j...ifier=uconn_ip ane_alliapetio_08 That's a picture of it. I live where you do (western slope of Blue Ridge, near Harpers Ferry), and it's popping out in the oak forest understory right now. At the front of out lot, I'm trying to extirpate it and make way for expansion of my Virginia bluebells (now three years old and splendid this spring), and a new planting of partridgeberry, which looks like it has about a chance in a zillion of surviving. ... Despite the garlic mustard, we do also have an efflorescence of Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica), Cut-leafed Toothwort, and Rue Anemone in the same woods. |
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Help identify this small white flower/weed
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You have rather precisely described the European-origin invasive known as garlic mustard - Alliaria petiolata. http://webapps.lib.uconn.edu/ipane/j...ifier=uconn_ip ane_alliapetio_08 This image was better than any I'd seen in searching for it and it is, indeed, garlic mustard. The ones I have are taller than this example. That's a picture of it. I live where you do (western slope of Blue Ridge, near Harpers Ferry), and it's popping out in the oak forest understory right now. At the front of out lot, I'm trying to extirpate it and make way for expansion of my Virginia bluebells (now three years old and splendid this spring), and a new planting of partridgeberry, which looks like it has about a chance in a zillion of surviving. ... Despite the garlic mustard, we do also have an efflorescence of Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica), Cut-leafed Toothwort, and Rue Anemone in the same woods. The rear of our lot borders a small ravine that's pretty full of trees, but isn't actually "woods". The garlic mustard is growing under cover of the canopy of trees, in partial sun. What are you doing to try to get rid of it? Chopping it off at the roots before it flowers, or digging it out? I read that it doesn't like acid soil, so is there any way to add a soil suppliment to the area it grows in, in hope of discouraging it? -- Kim "We have done so much with so little for so long that now we can do anything with nothing." -- Dave Marcis |
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