Plant & Weed ID Megathread

magicbastarder · 22-05-2019 1:18pm

there are quite a few willowherbs, always found them difficult to distinguish until they started to flower.

22-05-2019 1:48pm

1.Crepis capillaries, Smooth Hawksbeard
2.Epilobium montanum Broadleaved Willowherb
3.Plantago lanceolata Ribwort Plantain

New Home · 22-05-2019 7:17pm

Deleted User wrote: »

1.Crepis capillaries, Smooth Hawksbeard
2.Epilobium montanum Broadleaved Willowherb
3.Plantago lanceolata Ribwort Plantain

Could you please be more specific? :pac:

lordgoat · 23-05-2019 10:47pm

rebecc29 wrote: »

Anyone have any advice of how to get moss out of your grass? My garden seems to be half and half at the moment!

Rake it all out and re seed it with chamomile or creeping thyme.

Dr4gul4 · 24-05-2019 9:04pm

Looking to see if others can figure out this hedge plant, perennial, like a box maybe ? Quite large however, it's been planted a good 12 years however ..

lottpaul · 24-05-2019 10:36pm

Looks very like a type of escallonia, but I wouldn't be sure what type.

KilOit · 25-05-2019 3:23pm

Looking for an id on this shrub/tree

lottpaul · 25-05-2019 4:58pm

KilOit wrote: »

Looking for an id on this shrub/tree

Think it's Portuguese laurel - prunus lusitanica

rampantbunny · 25-05-2019 7:56pm

Newish lawn. This has popped up in the last 2 weeks.. Lots of it. It is sprawls in every direction. Anyone recognize it?

rampantbunny · 25-05-2019 8:01pm

Year old lawn. Grass is in need of some feeding but have noticed this plant has started to sprawl in every direction over the last 2 weeks. Anyone recognize it?

looksee · 25-05-2019 8:08pm

Some sort of vetch.

rampantbunny · 26-05-2019 12:32pm

Looked that up just now in google images and yea, it seems to be what you say it is. I'd already tried the reverse image search and although some of the images in google look very similar, it didn't return results.
Thanks for the assist.

Dr4gul4 · 27-05-2019 9:36am

lottpaul wrote: »

Looks very like a type of escallonia, but I wouldn't be sure what type.

Something like that perhaps yes, but it's 100% not evergreen, I'm left with a bare hedge come winter..

Might take a clipping down to the garden center and see what they make of it .

macraignil · 27-05-2019 12:14pm

Hi!
Made short video posts of two plants in the garden that I'm not sure what they are. Any help identifying them would be appreciated.
Pink flowered wild flower.
Yellow flowered wild flower.
Thanks!

standardg60 · 27-05-2019 6:31pm

Dr4gul4 wrote: »

Something like that perhaps yes, but it's 100% not evergreen, I'm left with a bare hedge come winter..

Might take a clipping down to the garden center and see what they make of it .

It's definitely escallonia, maybe you're in a very cold area which causes it to deleaf in winter.

27-05-2019 6:56pm

macraignil wrote: »

Hi!
Made short video posts of two plants in the garden that I'm not sure what they are. Any help identifying them would be appreciated.
Pink flowered wild flower.
Yellow flowered wild flower.
Thanks!

1. is Cut-leaved Cranesbill
2. is Wood Avens

macraignil · 27-05-2019 7:51pm

Deleted User wrote: »

1. is Cut-leaved Cranesbill
2. is Wood Avens

Just checked the images for those two and you're spot on. Thanks very much!

looksee · 28-05-2019 8:04am

I think the first one is some kind of geranium or cranesbill, and the second is geum or wood avens. I can't guarantee either of those!

Just a point m, not sure about others but I find it easier to identify plants from a couple of good photos where you can see the flower in detail, the shape of the leaf clearly and whether it grows in twos opposite or alternately on the stem, and preferably a bit of the stem too. Also a little more distant shot so the shape of the plant can be seen.

Edit - ah, too late! Blaris got it while i was nattering on! At least we agree.

Dr4gul4 · 28-05-2019 8:26am

standardg60 wrote: »

It's definitely escallonia, maybe you're in a very cold area which causes it to deleaf in winter.

This makes more sense now alright, usually the first frost seems to kick it in to loosing it's leaves. such a shame, but i can only blame the previous owners.

fryup · 28-05-2019 10:22pm

whats this...

and whats this...

thanks,

magicbastarder · 28-05-2019 10:29pm

ash seedling and a willowherb, by the looks of it. the ash tree is not one you want to leave where it is.

fryup · 28-05-2019 10:40pm

willow herb and herb robert are two entirely different plants?

macraignil · 28-05-2019 11:15pm

fryup wrote: »

willow herb and herb robert are two entirely different plants?

Yes. They are different plants. The herb robert has leaves that are much more segmented.

auspicious · 28-05-2019 11:24pm

I found a plant like the one in the pic attached, last Autumn in the garden. Without knowing what it was and the pod open, I scattered the seeds around. Lol? I had spread wildflower seeds in the previous Spring and thought it was just another normal wildflower.
Now I've spotted, I think, another one growing.
I don't know if more are coming up.
Should I leave them be?
I took a pic at the time last year but I've lost it.
Datura..

looksee · 29-05-2019 8:56am

Are you absolutely sure it is datura? If it is, I presume you know how poisonous it is? (at very least an hallucinogen, reputed to be dangerous and unpredictable).

bkrangle · 29-05-2019 9:11am

I noticed this when walking through Trinity College Dublin and it was absolutely swamped with bumblebees (which is great!)

Can anyone tell me if it's catmint? or something else?

Reverse image search just threw up lavender but I don't think that's correct.

Thanks

ike · 29-05-2019 9:25am

Yes definitely Catmint..its a magnet for Bees and and later in the season Butterflies, I've been growing it for years, its one of those bulletproof plants

auspicious · 29-05-2019 11:13am

looksee wrote: »

Are you absolutely sure it is datura? If it is, I presume you know how poisonous it is? (at very least an hallucinogen, reputed to be dangerous and unpredictable).

Well the seed pod last year was identical to that in the image.
I had never seen anything like it. So searching online I learned its deadly potential.
It was in a corner of the garden with high walls, so well sheltered. It's where we feed the birds so presumably it came in with them.
When I handled it, the plant was dead - woody, luckily. The seeds don't germinate easily but can remain viable for a long time but for how long in this climate is a guess I suppose.
I better keep gloves to hand!

Day Lewin · 29-05-2019 11:18am

auspicious wrote: »

Well the seed pod last year was identical to that in the image.
I had never seen anything like it. So searching online I learned its deadly potential.
It was in a corner of the garden with high walls, so well sheltered. It's where we feed the birds so presumably it came in with them.
When I handled it, the plant was dead - woody, luckily. The seeds don't germinate easily but can remain viable for a long time but for how long in this climate is a guess I suppose.
I better keep gloves to hand!

If you can keep some, I'd love some seed of that. Dry, warm garden. I love exotics.

auspicious · 29-05-2019 11:25am

Day Lewin wrote: »

If you can keep some, I'd love some seed of that. Dry, warm garden. I love exotics.

Will have to wait a few months to see. But sure np.

Granite Head · 30-05-2019 12:15pm

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 · 30-05-2019 12:21pm

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 · 30-05-2019 12:32pm

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 · 30-05-2019 12:40pm

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 · 31-05-2019 8:04pm

Anyone know what this is?

macraignil · 31-05-2019 8:09pm

Be right back wrote: »

Anyone know what this is?

Is it a small beech tree?

Be right back · 31-05-2019 8:14pm

macraignil wrote: »

Is it a small beech tree?

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

New Home · 31-05-2019 8:17pm

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

Be right back · 31-05-2019 8:27pm

New Home wrote: »

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

Thanks!

Roen · 01-06-2019 2:52pm

Looks like poppy and crocosmia.
Potentially wrong on both.

Darando · 01-06-2019 3:10pm

Roen wrote: »

Looks like poppy and crocosmia.
Potentially wrong on both.

Messed up an edit! Here they are again:

NIMAN · 01-06-2019 7:20pm

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 · 02-06-2019 12:44pm

Darando wrote: »

Messed up an edit! Here they are again:

Poppy and gladioli by the looks of it.

standardg60 · 02-06-2019 12:51pm

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 · 02-06-2019 2:12pm

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.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 02-06-2019 3:31pm

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 · 02-06-2019 5:53pm

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.

Be right back · 02-06-2019 8:24pm

Anyone know what this is?

macraignil · 02-06-2019 8:36pm

Be right back wrote: »

Anyone know what this is?

The blue flower looks like monkshood to me.

looksee · 03-06-2019 9:27am

Yes, aconite, looks like.

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