The flowers were 5.5 to 6 cm long on this one. We all have personal preferences on weeds, wildflowers and garden plants, this may be considered a garden plant but I would pull it up as a weed if I had it in my garden. I had to pull it up, to both identify it and take a photo showing it all. Spreads but can be pulled out at the base. IDENTIFYING YOUR PHOTOS : We get a large number of emails with photos attached asking us to identify wildflowers. They are very similar. I got a few pots from freecycle and wanted to see what would grow, in this case chickweed! I like to start my classes with a discussion of the mints because this pattern is so well known. All photos were taken myself unless otherwise noted. I don't usually see the seedheads as I pull out any caper spurge I find before it gets to that point but I saw this locally the other day, growing in a newly planted bed so it grew very well, very quickly. This self-seeded in a pot this summer. The following spring (April 2015) it seems to have replaced the old leaves with this beautiful rosette of leaves. Going back to last year (10-2015), I now know that these seedlings were wild buckwheat. Henbane. Note tiny flower buds in the centre. NB they look exactly like some of the nutsedge images I've seen. I close the door of my MISTI to pick up the stamp and ink it using Fresh Asparagus Ink. A weed or welcome flower, your choice. They have read that the berries and tubers are both poisonous so beware. These may be nice in a wood but in my garden they are very annoying. I then stamp it onto the panel, then pick up the panel and rotate it to the diamond position and stamp again. Pale Smartweed, Pale Persicaria (Persicaria lapathifolia)This was growing in a crack on the front path next door. this lesser burdock I saw at RSPB Fowlmere in Cambridgeshire end of September 2018. This has been in my Weed Gallery (a few picturesque weed photos) for years as an unknown but I recently came across an ID. By that I mean Yellow Suckling Clover/Lesser Trefoil/Lesser Hop Trefoil (Trifolium dubium), or so I've just discovered by googling. although the willowherb flowers are usually pink, I found this one that's purple the other day, tiny early short-fruited willow herb seedling which appeared end of Feb/ beginning of March, Broad-leaved willowherb, by the time I noticed this it's grown multiple stems. I've also dicovered Wall Lettuce and Hedge Mustard recently and of course, there's still the odd smooth sow thistle, nipplewort and coltsfoot, all with yellow flowers. Easy to pull out. It is organized by flower color, making it easy to navigate. It's such a common plant I never really thought about it before but it was so extensive and exuberant I thought I should take a photo and realized I didn't have it in on weed page so here it is finally, June 2018. I've seen it before but for some reason it never made it onto this page. I've been weeding them out like mad but missed this one which has gotten to be 46 cm high. Solanum rostratum. Numerous very thin. "Weeds" are any plants growing out of place. I first noticed this prickly sow thistle in the pot with the hosta Sept 2014. If you're not from Ontario, don't go away! this entire clump is burdock, I'm not sure if it's lesser or greater burdock, that clump above has long since been cleared and recently (June 2016) the lawn was mown, shortly after that this small plant appeared. Skip to navigation Skip to main content Skip to footer University of Minnesota Extension https ... Find photos and identifying characteristics that’ll help you identify common Minnesota weeds. I don't know why I hadn't seen this before in London until this week. (plaintain to the right in the pic below, the soil is rock-hard so that will be difficult to dig up). Wildflowers of Minnesota by Stan Tekiela is an excellent, easy-to-use resource for identifying wildflowers and weeds. It is similar to Joe-Pye weed and I'm not absolutely certain of the differences but as hemp-agrimony is a native wildflower in the UK and Joe-Pye weed is native to North America I think hemp-agrimony is a more likely ID for this. the buds are on small horizontal stems, these 2 pics are not great, I'm going to try to take another (in focus this time!). Recommendations for homeowners are considerably different from recommendations for commercial enterprises that have access to chemicals whose purchase and use require a pesticide applicator's license. I saw this in the protected environment of the walled carpark round the corner from me 2-9-2017, an even earlier plant which I noticed first, then the more developed buds above, then the flowers above that so I realized this is evening primrose, in isolation not sure I would have, well maybe now after I've seen these examples. You can still just scroll through and look at the photos (beginning after the list) if you're not sure what you're looking for. This is a tentative identification. Unfortunately I didn't see any flowers on it and it's disappeared from my garden. Perennial with tough roots which must be dug out. It may appear as a weed as it can self-seed and sprout up anywhere. Personally I can't bear it, especially the smell, and pull it out wherever I find it. Updated! I saw this yesterday (16-5-2017) outside Sainsbury's on Camden Rd. It never did and I got fed up waiting for it and having it take up room on my patio so disposed of it. Perennial with tough spreading roots which must be dug out and even then difficult to get all of it as it spreads so far. this and the dryopteris fern act very weed-like, this self-seeding in a wall by the Regent's Canal near King's Cross, so I think they can be acknowledged as weeds. Web World Portal | Web World Tunnel US Wildflower's Database of Wildflowers for Kentucky Click on thumbnail for larger version of image, scientific name for detail page. A simple guide to the wildflowers of Britain Country Life April 6, 2020 From deciduous woods yet to fill out with leaf, to windswept hilltop shingle beach and riverbank, our flora can give so much pleasure. It's been a couple years since I've seen any verbascum thapsis seedlings but this week I noticed this one growing out of a wall by the pavement nearby. I didn't measure it but it must be close to 20 cm tall. On the right is a larger bulbil that obviously developed to a larger size on its own. Test Garden Tip: Each plantain plant can produce more than 15,000 seeds. close-up of the flowers, vetch in the background. June 2018, this was the first rosebay willowherb I've seen in London, rather than a very tall drift of plants in West Sussex (see below). Then I had a horrific thought. Weeds, Toxic Plants & Wildflowers Nebraska Extension Publications & Resources. I saw this in St Pancras Old Church churchyard August 2018. My only problem with this article is that all of the "weeds" listed here are perrenial edibles, even the crab grass. I took this pic on June 11th and it's not in bloom yet. initial rosette, this is on the patio of the garden next door at the back, the one I help look after, this example I saw in my sister-in-law's garden in northwest London shows the basal rosette similar to the one above, this is in the front garden next door (on the other side, ie not the one I look after) and I'm thinking it's Oxford ragwort as it's more sprawling and less upright than above and the examples on the bee page and South Coast page, even though these flowers are pink, I think this is "red clover", Red Valerian see the Identification - South Coast page, (there's another weed there growing under it towards the bottom, slightly to the right, think it's a horseweed), small soft rush plant (November), oenothera on the left. It is all over most of the garden next door which I look after. I saw this at RSPB Fowlmere (Cambridgeshire) so adding here. 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