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Can you help by naming these weeds?

  • 20-05-2011 6:39pm
    #1
    pburns
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    I have a meadow for hay but need to get weeds under control, mainly thistles, for which I intend to use Thistlex.However I also have these 2 weeds. Can anyone name the or advise how to treat?

    This has a big leaf and will eventually flower into a large circle of white buds I think. It is very prevalent around here.
    weed1.jpg

    This is another weed I have.
    weed2.jpg

    I'd really like the name of these weeds so I can go about treating them!


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  • #2
    Birdnuts
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    The first one is some type of umbellifer(probably cow parsley) - there are dozens of species that look alike so would need to see flower head up close with hand lens!!

    The second one is Yellow Rattle - wouldn't worry too much about it since its quiet palatable to livestock:)


  • #3
    KatyMac
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    I think the first one might be hogweed. Does it have fuzzy leaves? If it does an awful lot of people (and animals) are alergic to what is almost like nettle stings that it can inflict. It raises blisters on the skin and is very nasty. I found this out the hard way by hand pulling a couple of plants from an old garden and suffering for many days afterwards.


  • #4
    Birdnuts
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    KatyMac wrote: »
    I think the first one might be hogweed. Does it have fuzzy leaves? If it does an awful lot of people (and animals) are alergic to what is almost like nettle stings that it can inflict. It raises blisters on the skin and is very nasty. I found this out the hard way by hand pulling a couple of plants from an old garden and suffering for many days afterwards.

    Your thinking of Giant Hogweed(native of Turkey Eastwards) which is indeed a nasty piece of work that has escaped into the wild in Ireland and has become a serious invasive species near water- the leaves above though look more like Common Hogweed which is native and is another type of Umbellifer:)


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