Plant Identification ?
 

One day soon I will find another camera.

http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...other/3965.jpg
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http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...other/3967.jpg

The plant is standing about 3 to 4' high. The main stem
is about 1/2" (or slightly bigger) in diameter at the base.

The main stem has white fuzz all the way up. The
leaves at the top look somewhat like blades of grass.
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...her/3858-2.jpg

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Could be cosmos, the common orange wildflower.



On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 05:01:52 GMT, "Jim Carlock" opined:

One day soon I will find another camera.

http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...other/3965.jpg
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...r/3858-640.jpg
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...other/3967.jpg

The plant is standing about 3 to 4' high. The main stem
is about 1/2" (or slightly bigger) in diameter at the base.

The main stem has white fuzz all the way up. The
leaves at the top look somewhat like blades of grass.
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...her/3858-2.jpg






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On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:47:17 GMT, escapee
wrote:


On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 05:01:52 GMT, "Jim Carlock" opined:


http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...other/3965.jpg
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...r/3858-640.jpg
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...other/3967.jpg

The main stem has white fuzz all the way up. The
leaves at the top look somewhat like blades of grass.
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...her/3858-2.jpg

Could be cosmos, the common orange wildflower.

Nope. It's a weed. I know I've seen it and pulled it up, but I don't
remember what it is. Why aren't there any good weed ID sites? Va Tech
has one, but it's only for grass-type weeds and takes *forever* to
use, as all the pictures are way under-compressed.

Yeah, I've got a good feeling it's a weed. I didn't plant, it just
popped up one day and I decided to let it grow thinking it
would stop at 1 foot, but it's up to 42" now. No buds or
flowers. It looks like one of those things where if you ever
did see it, as in walking through a bunch of brush or a high
grassy area, you'd likely just walk on it and crush it without
ever knowing about it. :-) I probably have seen it on one
of the grassy knolls at the beach here in the Tampa Bay
at one point or another.

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"Frogleg" wrote:
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:47:17 GMT, escapee wrote:
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 05:01:52 GMT, "Jim Carlock" opined:


http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...other/3965.jpg
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...r/3858-640.jpg
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...other/3967.jpg

The main stem has white fuzz all the way up. The
leaves at the top look somewhat like blades of grass.
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...her/3858-2.jpg

Could be cosmos, the common orange wildflower.

Nope. It's a weed. I know I've seen it and pulled it up, but I don't
remember what it is. Why aren't there any good weed ID sites? Va Tech
has one, but it's only for grass-type weeds and takes *forever* to
use, as all the pictures are way under-compressed.

"Jim Carlock" wrote in news:2ds2d.33794$Of3.17936
@tornado.tampabay.rr.com:

Yeah, I've got a good feeling it's a weed. I didn't plant, it just
popped up one day and I decided to let it grow thinking it
would stop at 1 foot, but it's up to 42" now. No buds or
flowers. It looks like one of those things where if you ever
did see it, as in walking through a bunch of brush or a high
grassy area, you'd likely just walk on it and crush it without
ever knowing about it. :-) I probably have seen it on one
of the grassy knolls at the beach here in the Tampa Bay
at one point or another.


It looks familiar to me. Has it flowered? That would be helpful
diagnostically.
My first thought is groundsel (Senecio sp.), some species look quite a
bit like this. Second thought is something in the Goosefoot family
(Chenopodiaceae), can't remember what though. (Reference books not
handy.) Another thought is scentless chamomile.

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"Alfred Falk" wrote:
It looks familiar to me. Has it flowered? That would be helpful
diagnostically.

No flowers. It's about 5 feet tall now. Most of the leaves look
like grass growing off the branches. Someone said fennel, and
it's possible I guess, except the main trunk is covered in white
hairs. The main stem starts out as green where it enters the
ground. About 5 inches up it starts to turn into a redish color.
It continues to be deep reddish for another 12 inches then
turns green again.

The base has a different looking leaf than everything above it.
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...other/3967.jpg

The leaves above the base look just like very thin blades of
common lawn grass.

I looked over the chamomile pics and I can't find one that
resembles it. I looked through quite a few things... to no
success. The groundsel doesn't seem to qualify. I can't
seem to find a goosefoot that qualifies.

Is there a name for the white hairs that grow up the main
stem?

It has one and only one main trunk. It is currently 5 feet
tall. If looking down upon it the diameter of the branches
is maybe 12 inches at most from one tip to another. The
branches grow outward in all directions. The stems of
the branches are all green. The leaves on the branches
look a lot like common thin young lawn grass.

It just started growing in a pot that had an azalelia in it.
The azalelia died and in some of the pics, you'll see the
dead azalelia branches.

http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...other/3965.jpg
http://www.microcosmotalk.com/images...other/4009.jpg

The pics above show the grassy looking leaves.

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"Alfred Falk" wrote:
My first thought is groundsel (Senecio sp.), some species look quite a
bit like this. Second thought is something in the Goosefoot family
(Chenopodiaceae), can't remember what though. (Reference books not
handy.) Another thought is scentless chamomile.

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A L B E R T A Alfred Falk
R E S E A R C H Information Systems Dept (780)450-5185
C O U N C I L 250 Karl Clark Road
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
http://www.arc.ab.ca/ T6N 1E4
http://www.arc.ab.ca/staff/falk/

It does resemble this creature from the Chenopodiaceae family. Here's some pics:

http://gateway.library.uiuc.edu/vex/...wd/8-29-25.jpg
http://davesgarden.com/pdb/go/1384/index.html