Plant & Weed ID Megathread

Granite Head

Can you help with this plant. I have three of them in a shaded area, two of them look dead and this one is struggling.

Igotadose

Friend of the wife has these in her yard, calls them 'echeya?' Anyone know anything about it? Gave us a seedling, seems like it spreads pretty well. Very attractive plant gets quite large. Thanks

Roen

Igotadose wrote: »

Friend of the wife has these in her yard, calls them 'echeya?' Anyone know anything about it? Gave us a seedling, seems like it spreads pretty well. Very attractive plant gets quite large. Thanks

Echium. Day of the Triffids territory there. I think butterflies and bees go nuts for them.

Igotadose

Roen wrote: »

Echium. Day of the Triffids territory there. I think butterflies and bees go nuts for them.

They were in the friend's yard. Said yard was on the ocean, though well protected with walls and shrubs. And the echium were all over. One site said it couldn't stand temps below 5c, well, we get that cold out here, so apparently the plants haven't gotten that message.

Soon as they pull up roots and start moving we'll know its seriously triffid.;);)

Be right back

Anyone know what this is?

macraignil

Be right back wrote: »

Anyone know what this is?

Is it a small beech tree?

Be right back

macraignil wrote: »

Is it a small beech tree?

I'm hoping! As long as it's not knotweed!

New Home

No, it's not knotweed, but it looks more like a birch to me.

Be right back

New Home wrote: »

No, it's not knotweed, but it looks more like a birch to me.

Thanks!

Roen

Looks like poppy and crocosmia.
Potentially wrong on both.

Darando

Roen wrote: »

Looks like poppy and crocosmia.
Potentially wrong on both.

Messed up an edit! Here they are again:

NIMAN

Anyone help identify these 2 badboys?

Not sure if they are weeds or not. They appeared in our rockery area this year and we aren't sure if we planted them or not!

For that reason I suspect they are weeds.

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmDWG7DD

standardg60

Darando wrote: »

Messed up an edit! Here they are again:

Poppy and gladioli by the looks of it.

standardg60

NIMAN wrote: »

Anyone help identify these 2 badboys?

Not sure if they are weeds or not. They appeared in our rockery area this year and we aren't sure if we planted them or not!

For that reason I suspect they are weeds.

https://flic.kr/s/aHsmDWG7DD

Not weeds, achillea (though it spreads like one) and phlox.

Harry Palmr

This thread has grown like Galium aparine, speaking of which (yes I'm here for a reason!) the area I cleared over the winter has been invaded by this annoying cleaver grass, beyond pulling it out (its in a no mowing area of the garden) is there anything I can do, it starting to choke other plants.

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Harry Palmr wrote: »

This thread has grown like Galium aparine, speaking of which (yes I'm here for a reason!) the area I cleared over the winter has been invaded by this annoying cleaver grass, beyond pulling it out (its in a no mowing area of the garden) is there anything I can do, it starting to choke other plants.

What is it growing among?

standardg60

Harry Palmr wrote: »

This thread has grown like Galium aparine, speaking of which (yes I'm here for a reason!) the area I cleared over the winter has been invaded by this annoying cleaver grass, beyond pulling it out (its in a no mowing area of the garden) is there anything I can do, it starting to choke other plants.

Not really, but it is very easily (and quite satisfyingly) pulled out, or just sever the tiny base stem and let it die off. Important to clear it before it sets seed or it will be worse next year.

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Anyone know what this is?

macraignil

Be right back wrote: »

Anyone know what this is?

The blue flower looks like monkshood to me.

looksee

Yes, aconite, looks like.

finla

Hi all
Hoping someone here can identify this tiny weed please? It's spreading on the driveway and I want to keep it. The flowers are only about 5mm across and the leaves are very similar to clover. The 50mm screw is for scale! Thanks.DSC_0427.JPG

looksee

That appears to be Black Medick.

Naff moment - this is one of the wildflowers I remember thanks to the 'Flower Fairy' books I had when I was about 7.

'Why are we called black, sister, when we've yellow flowers?
I will tell you why brother, see these seeds of ours?
Very soon each tiny seed will be turning black indeed!'

Yes, Black Medick, just about make out the point at the leaf tip. Well worth keeping too, flowers for months.

yogibear77

Does anyone know what this is? Thanks

HoteiMarkii

yogibear77 wrote: »

Does anyone know what this is? Thanks

It looks like Sagina subulata. The flowers are white in colour.

yogibear77

Thanks, its popping up all over my rockery

I think it's more likely Procumbent Pearlwort, Sagina procumbens, very common, no petals.

S. subulata is an uncommon species in Ireland.

HoteiMarkii

Deleted User wrote: »

I think it's more likely Procumbent Pearlwort, Sagina procumbens, very common, no petals.

S. subulata is an uncommon species in Ireland.

Yeah, it's a little wispy looking for S. subulata. S. procumbens looks like a good call.

Cody OHare

I'm rejuvenating a tired garden with overgrown flower beds. Instead of purchasing all new plants, I'm trying to rescue some that are already there. So Im trying to work out what these flowers are.


2 pics of same plant

https://flic.kr/p/2g8vJRi
https://flic.kr/p/2g8vJS5





Not sure if this is a flower or weed?
https://flic.kr/p/2g8vxSm

lottpaul

Cody OHare wrote: »

I'm rejuvenating a tired garden with overgrown flower beds. Instead of purchasing all new plants, I'm trying to rescue some that are already there. So Im trying to work out what these flowers are.


2 pics of same plant

https://flic.kr/p/2g8vJRi
https://flic.kr/p/2g8vJS5





Not sure if this is a flower or weed?
https://flic.kr/p/2g8vxSm

Plant is a sisyrinchium.

Second one is a weed afaik - can't remember what it is - and could be wrong!