Weed/plant identification

mickydcork

Hi all gardeners

I'm a total noob when it comes to gardening so I need some identification of these plants/weeds in my garden.

I think they are both weeds, especially photo, as it is a real sticky plant and is in a few places around garden and seems to grow up and around other plants.

Thanks for the help in advance

looksee

Those images are not opening.

bodice ripper

I can identify weed plants!





Oh, I see.

looksee

Just re-read your description and I'd say that one of them is goosegrass, sometimes called cleavers. It has a hairy kind of square stem with little pointed narrow leaves and it clings to you if you get near it. You could weed killer it but its easy enough to just pull out in swathes.

mickydcork

Apologies. Images now as attachments.

paddy147

1st one is clever..aka stickle back,as it sticks to your clothes.

looksee

Come on, somebody identify the other one, its annoying me, I know what it is but don't know the name...not silverweed, not pineapple weed...is it some kind of a poppy? Maybe its supposed to be there. The other stuff in the same picture is chickweed, again easy enough to pull up.

Bixy

Fumitory? (not fully convinced tho!)

looksee

fumitory is much more straggly than that. I think its a poppy!

rje66

looksee wrote: »

Come on, somebody identify the other one, its annoying me, I know what it is but don't know the name...not silverweed, not pineapple weed...is it some kind of a poppy? Maybe its supposed to be there. The other stuff in the same picture is chickweed, again easy enough to pull up.

Looks like perovskia- russian sage.
OP hasit got sented leaves when you crush them?

My Potatoes

The first one is Galium aparine.

inocybe

second one is not a poppy, it looks like a type of wild carrot.

Lon.C

The second one looks like Anthriscus sylvestris-Cow Parsley/Queen Anne's lace.

looksee

inocybe wrote: »

second one is not a poppy, it looks like a type of wild carrot.

Yes I agree its not poppy, it could be a wild parsnip too.

Incidentally did you know that young goosgrass actually tastes quite nice cooked, and makes a good tea? It has lots of other uses too, from acting as a sieve, to washing up(the older plants contain saponin, and they are abrasive).

Hostafairy

Second weeds looks like cows parsley if it has a tall white flower .
Brushwood killer from woodies should kill it

rustymetal

That second weed looks very similar to Aethusa cynapium something along those lines.

jezko

I Was thinking more Poached Egg. Limnanthes douglasii.. But I think the foliage is different...

looksee

I don't think it is cow parsley or limonanthes, I think it is wild carrot. If it is wild carrot it will have a long taproot.

Day Lewin

Lots of those Umbelliferae look very similar and are hard to tell apart.

Wild carrot is one of the few easy-to-identify ones because
- the flower has a little collar of dark green "hairs" surrounding it like a ruff
and
- if you pull one up (quite easy) there is a pointed tap root with an unmistakeable smell of parsnip from it. It's actually the wild ancestor of modern vegetables.

I think "Queen Anne's Lace" is likeliest as garden weed.