On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 20:17:35 +0000 (UTC), "Danny D."
wrote:

Anyone ever had an infestation of acres of these yellow plants?
http://www5.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/13393168.jpg

They seem to be taking over my otherwise barren dry hillsides:
http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/13393169.jpg

The plant has a strange-looking stalk:
http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/13393210.jpg

And very low-lying leaves:
http://www4.picturepush.com/photo/a/...g/13393207.jpg

The climate is San Francisco bay area, very dry, poor Franciscan
sediment soil, and lots and lots and lots of sunlight.


We've a new weed infestation this year here in northern NJ. I have
assumed it came in with Superstorm Sandy last fall, as it is
ubiquitous this spring/summer and I have never seen it before, or
surely never did in any great numbers such that it made an impression
on me.

Anyway, check out field hawkweed photos and see if they match. That is
what seems to be all over the sides of the roads here now.

Boron