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trying to identify a yellow flowering weed (?)
A friend had a weed/volunteer plant in her flower beds last year and
it is starting to come back up and she says it appears to have spread out somewhat and is shooting up around the place where it was last year. She says the plant actually looks similar to some kind of phlox or loosestrife, particularly the latter in the blooms. The blooms are smaller than those of yellow loosestrife and there are not very many blooms either. That is about all she can tell me. I have no ideas but if anyone has suggestions, I will send them to her and maybe she can identify it. Thanks. |
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trying to identify a yellow flowering weed (?)
In article , griffon wrote:
A friend had a weed/volunteer plant in her flower beds last year and it is starting to come back up and she says it appears to have spread out somewhat and is shooting up around the place where it was last year. She says the plant actually looks similar to some kind of phlox or loosestrife, particularly the latter in the blooms. The blooms are smaller than those of yellow loosestrife and there are not very many blooms either. That is about all she can tell me. I have no ideas but if anyone has suggestions, I will send them to her and maybe she can identify it. Thanks. Well, loosestrife is certainly invasive & spreads in just that manner. -paghat -- "Of what are you afraid, my child?" inquired the kindly teacher. "Oh, sir! The flowers, they are wild," replied the timid creature. -from Peter Newell's "Wild Flowers" See the Garden of Paghat the Ratgirl: http://www.paghat.com/ |
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trying to identify a yellow flowering weed (?)
griffon wrote: A friend had a weed/volunteer plant in her flower beds last year and it is starting to come back up and she says it appears to have spread out somewhat and is shooting up around the place where it was last year. She says the plant actually looks similar to some kind of phlox or loosestrife, particularly the latter in the blooms. The blooms are smaller than those of yellow loosestrife and there are not very many blooms either. That is about all she can tell me. I have no ideas but if anyone has suggestions, I will send them to her and maybe she can identify it. Thanks. It could be Lamiastrum galeobdolon, aka yellow archangel. It is a very aggressive and invasive lamium relative that will rapidly colonize any shady, moist area. See if this link looks anything like what your friend has - if it does, she needs to get rid of it ASAP. Sorry - not the best picture, but it gets the idea across. http://www.suite101.com/userfiles/176/1-lam-gab-fl.jpg pam - gardengal |
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trying to identify a yellow flowering weed (?)
Pam wrote:
It could be Lamiastrum galeobdolon, aka yellow archangel. It is a very aggressive and invasive lamium relative that will rapidly colonize any shady, moist area. See if this link looks anything like what your friend has - if it does, she needs to get rid of it ASAP. Sorry - not the best picture, but it gets the idea across. http://www.suite101.com/userfiles/176/1-lam-gab-fl.jpg She said that looks nothing like it. Although I think that plant is somewhat pretty. Hmm. She also said that the plant "looks like asparagus on the stalk" although I am not entirely sure what she meant. It certainly isn't ringing any bells with me. |
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trying to identify a yellow flowering weed (?)
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 21:36:34 -0500, griffon
wrote: A friend had a weed/volunteer plant in her flower beds last year and it is starting to come back up and she says it appears to have spread out somewhat and is shooting up around the place where it was last year. She says the plant actually looks similar to some kind of phlox or loosestrife, particularly the latter in the blooms. The blooms are smaller than those of yellow loosestrife and there are not very many blooms either. That is about all she can tell me. I have no ideas but if anyone has suggestions, I will send them to her and maybe she can identify it. Thanks. This sounds kind of like a weed we had growing in an unused planter box. We thought it looked nice so we left it alone. But then we found out it was Wild Parsnip, a biennial that happens to be phototoxic (juices of the plant are toxic when exposed to sunlight.). My husband cut it down with a weed whacker, and he got some of the juice from the plants splashed on his arm and ankle. He then went out into the sun, and the juice acted like a flesh-eating acid. He still has scars from the burns. It resembles Queen Anne's Lace, only yellow. Be careful, if that is what it is. Get rid of it carefully on a cloudy day, and burn it or seal it up in bags. Remove the dirt, or cover it with plastic sheeting to prevent it from resprouting. Nasty stuff. On the other hand, it could be wild mustard, which is harmless and pleasant to look at. Hard to tell without a photo. |
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