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What is this weed

  • 16-05-2011 8:53pm
    #1
    towzer2010
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    Can anyone help me identify this weed. Its taking up a lot of space in a few of my fields. I want to spray it and hopefully get rid of it but I dont know what it is.


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  • #2
    Daniel S
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    Morrocan Black I'd say.


  • #3
    Nobbies
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    good heavens.i always thought it was grass. :o i,ll b very busy with the sprayer too.


  • #4
    blue5000
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    buttercup is my guess

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #5
    melly
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    yep its buttercup alright and the field will be covered in yellow flowers in July. Last year I sprayed with mcpa did the job fine


  • #6
    reilig
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    Around here we'd call it "crowfoot". Don't have a technical term for it though. I wouldn't spray it. Cattle go mad for it, and it's perfectly palatable in silage. Mortone will kill it if you want to spray it.


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  • #7
    Bizzum
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    mtb_kng wrote: »
    Morrocan Black I'd say.

    Could be worth a few quid as a cash crop so:).

    More like Buttercup to me though!


  • #8
    what happen
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    reilig wrote: »
    Around here we'd call it "crowfoot". Don't have a technical term for it though. I wouldn't spray it. Cattle go mad for it, and it's perfectly palatable in silage. Mortone will kill it if you want to spray it.
    it grows in worn ground and ground that is very acid if you do spray it put on lime this will help a lot.not good in silage very sour it a weed. creeping buttercup is another name for it.


  • #9
    wiggy123
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    cattle eat that


  • #10
    cattle man
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    blue5000 wrote: »
    buttercup is my guess

    ya defiently buttercup.;)
    mcpa will kill it.
    and due to poaching of land.


  • #11
    Bizzum
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    cattle man wrote: »
    ya defiently buttercup.;)
    mcpa will kill it.
    and due to poaching of land.

    Agreed MCPA will impact on it.

    Not so sure about the poaching. I see it in fields that cattle are never wintered on or never see poaching!


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  • #12
    towzer2010
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    Thanks everyone. Its not from poaching but the ground would be acidic. It will be for silage and I thought that it might not be great for the silage


  • #13
    Iwannahurl
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    Buttercup/Crowsfoot/Ranunculus is poisonous to horses. I thought it was poisonous for cattle too, but it seems that the fresh herb is toxic whereas the dried version is not. Is that true?


  • #14
    reilig
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    Iwannahurl wrote: »
    Buttercup/Crowsfoot/Ranunculus is poisonous to horses. I thought it was poisonous for cattle too, but it seems that the fresh herb is toxic whereas the dried version is not. Is that true?

    What Towser has in the photograph is definitely not poisonous to cattle or horses either in grass, hay or silage. I have a good bit of it through meadows which are cut for silage and through pasture which is grazed by both cattle and ponies and have not suffered any loss yet. in fact, its the first thing that cattle or horses will eat when they go into a field.


  • #15
    Iwannahurl
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    [Creeping Buttercup is] common in heavily grazed horse pastures in latrine and wet areas but [is] usually avoided by horses; contrary to popular opinion, buttercup is not a sign of acid soil, but may be an indication of ‘horse sickness’. Mildly poisonous, but ... safe in hay.

    http://www.teagasc.ie/publications/2011/70/70_Horse_Grassland_2010_web.pdf


  • #16
    what happen
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    reilig wrote: »
    What Towser has in the photograph is definitely not poisonous to cattle or horses either in grass, hay or silage. I have a good bit of it through meadows which are cut for silage and through pasture which is grazed by both cattle and ponies and have not suffered any loss yet. in fact, its the first thing that cattle or horses will eat when they go into a field.
    i know were donkeys was grazing land covered in buttercups and they went into a woods and stripped the bark off 5 two hundred year old trees beech.over a inch thick bark the caretaker over the woods was going mad and said the donkeys did it because they had nothing to eat the place was covered in weeds buttercups.i had shetland ponies and they would not eat it you could see the clumps of buttercups in the field were they didnt eat it and the cattle the same.


  • #17
    blue5000
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    what happen wrote: »
    i know were donkeys was grazing land covered in buttercups and they went into a woods and stripped the bark off 5 two hundred year old trees beech.over a inch thick bark the caretaker over the woods was going mad and said the donkeys did it because they had nothing to eat the place was covered in weeds buttercups.i had shetland ponies and they would not eat it you could see the clumps of buttercups in the field were they didnt eat it and the cattle the same.

    AFAIk buttercups thrive well in poor land that is low in phosphorus. The donkeys probably ate the bark because of phosphorus deficiency. Horses here ate bark off trees last winter, I think it was because they had no mineral licks.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #18
    what happen
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    blue5000 wrote: »
    AFAIk buttercups thrive well in poor land that is low in phosphorus. The donkeys probably ate the bark because of phosphorus deficiency. Horses here ate bark off trees last winter, I think it was because they had no mineral licks.
    their was horses on the same land as the donkeys in the summer and horses ate the bark of a 25 year old oak tree.their land is heavy and wet some of it peaty and some of it very little soil just blue clay and gets no slurry or bagstuff. my land is good plenty of topsoil but is worn out and badly needs reseeding and lime if i had the money.


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