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Plant & Weed ID Megathread

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    #1142
    standardg60
    Registered Users Posts: 4,356 ✭✭✭standardg60


    Cissus striata, runners can be a bit of a nuisance alright.


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    #1143
    Gargled
    Registered Users Posts: 99 ✭✭Gargled


    standardg60 wrote: »
    Cissus striata, runners can be a bit of a nuisance alright.

    Super, thanks. Surprised to see you can buy them, they’re spreading throughout the garden so much - maybe I can make a fortune!


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    #1144
    diabhail
    Registered Users Posts: 34 ✭diabhail


    Noob gardener. New house, huge landscaped gardens that was not tended for over 7/8 years. My time is spent removing ivy and weeds. In one ivy filled flower bed there are some thorny things. Not entirely sure if these are roses or just briars. Any way of telling other than waiting for flowers or blackberries? Should I just post a pic here?


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    #1145
    MacDanger
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    diabhail wrote: »
    Noob gardener. New house, huge landscaped gardens that was not tended for over 7/8 years. My time is spent removing ivy and weeds. In one ivy filled flower bed there are some thorny things. Not entirely sure if these are roses or just briars. Any way of telling other than waiting for flowers or blackberries? Should I just post a pic here?

    Post a pic and someone here will be able to give you a (very) precise ID on it unless it's something very exotic


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    #1146
    peterofthebr
    Registered Users Posts: 306 ✭✭peterofthebr


    Hi this is growing strongly in newely reseeded grass - any idea what weed it is?


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    #1147
    FlipperThePriest
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    peterofthebr wrote: »
    Hi this is growing strongly in newely reseeded grass - any idea what weed it is?

    Nipplewort? Have a pile of it around the place here at the moment.


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    #1148
    macraignil
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    peterofthebr wrote: »
    Hi this is growing strongly in newely reseeded grass - any idea what weed it is?


    I find it easier to identify plants when they are pictured alive. Is it fat hen (Chenopodium album)?


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    #1149
    New Home
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    Can somebody please tell me what this is? I can't decide if it's an aubergine, a nightshade, or something else, and it's bugging me because I know I should know it and I think I may start mistaking people for hats, if I keep going at this rate. I'll attach a pic in a sec.

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    #1150
    GinSoaked
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    Eat the berries and let us know :D

    Fairly sure its a nightshade but not exactly which one. Its not deadly nightshade which is a different family.

    Best guess is Solanum nigrum.

    Edit> some decent pics here


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    #1151
    New Home
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    :rolleyes:

    Someone once told me that if a venomous snake were to bite me, the snake would die, so I guess I wouldn't even notice some nightshade. :D


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    #1152
    [Deleted User]
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    macraignil wrote: »
    I find it easier to identify plants when they are pictured alive. Is it fat hen (Chenopodium album)?

    Yes. Fat Hen


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    #1153
    peterofthebr
    Registered Users Posts: 306 ✭✭peterofthebr


    Deleted User wrote: »
    Yes. Fat Hen

    okay so 2 think its Fat Hen, is this common to have weeds like this - maybe containimated greed seed in a new lawn?


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    #1154
    GinSoaked
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    peterofthebr wrote: »
    okay so 2 think its Fat Hen, is this common to have weeds like this - maybe containimated greed seed in a new lawn?

    Very very common. It grows very quickly and produces loads of seeds. Plants can get very large, often its the only reason I've bothered cutting new seeded areas.

    Its an annual and will be gone by the second or third cut.


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    #1155
    peterofthebr
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    it grows like mad, this was only reseeded back in May


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    #1156
    GinSoaked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭GinSoaked


    peterofthebr wrote: »
    it grows like mad, this was only reseeded back in May

    Start looking at Willow Weed ,Persicaria maculosa, Polygonum persicaria, all the same thing and I'n not sure exactly which is the current latin name.

    Its the blotch on the leaf thats a bit of a give away. May not be Willow Weed but I'm fairly sure its the right family.

    Edit> To check it good ID page here aka Ladies Thumb.


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    #1157
    [Deleted User]
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    GinSoaked wrote: »
    Start looking at Willow Weed ,Persicaria maculosa, Polygonum persicaria, all the same thing and I'n not sure exactly which is the current latin name.

    Its the blotch on the leaf thats a bit of a give away. May not be Willow Weed but I'm fairly sure its the right family.

    Edit> To check it good ID page here aka Ladies Thumb.

    Persicaria maculosa is the current botanical name. Redshank is what I call it.


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    #1158
    GinSoaked
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    Persicaria maculosa is the current botanical name. Redshank is what I call it.

    I should have spotted it was redshank but its growing so well on the OP's pictures it didn't register.


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    #1159
    RebelButtMunch
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    Hi. Looking for an ID please. I need to know if it's poisonous for my cat.

    Thanks.


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    #1160
    Xcellor
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    RebelButtMunch wrote: »
    Hi. Looking for an ID please. I need to know if it's poisonous for my cat.

    Thanks.

    Common day lily. Why would your cat eat it?


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    #1161
    RebelButtMunch
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    Xcellor wrote: »
    Common day lily. Why would your cat eat it?

    He'd brush off it and then ingest the pollen when cleaning


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    #1162
    GinSoaked
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    Xcellor wrote: »
    Common day lily. Why would your cat eat it?

    Funnily enough all parts of a daylily are edible :)


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    #1163
    standardg60
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    RebelButtMunch wrote: »
    He'd brush off it and then ingest the pollen when cleaning

    Hemerocattis


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    New Home
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    Xcellor wrote: »
    Common day lily. Why would your cat eat it?

    Like rebelbuttmunch said it's the pollen of the lilies that can be lethal to cats, not necessarily the whole of the plant. If they rub against it and clean themselves they can ingest it. It messes up their kidneys big time. I don't know if that's valid for every variety of lily or not, though. Maybe ask your vet, just to be sure.


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    #1165
    dePeatrick
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    New Home wrote: »
    Like rebelbuttmunch said it's the pollen of the lilies that can be lethal to cats, not necessarily the whole of the plant. If they rub against it and clean themselves they can ingest it. It messes up their kidneys big time. I don't know if that's valid for every variety of lily or not, though. Maybe ask your vet, just to be sure.
    Yes I have come across this, seems to be the pollen that is lethal to cats, but I have lots of lilies and a cat and so far no problem, cats don't seem to have any interest in lilies, but as you say if they rub up to one and then lick their fur!


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    #1166
    Pinch Flat
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    Tell me I'm not training two weeds :). Planted a mixed lot of seeds - broccoli, carrots and onions. Can't work out what this is - two of them flourishing.


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    #1167
    looksee
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    Not sure what your seedling is, but you really don't need slug pellets in heaps! A very thin sprinkle if you are going to use them.


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    #1168
    Pinch Flat
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    looksee wrote: »
    Not sure what your seedling is, but you really don't need slug pellets in heaps! A very thin sprinkle if you are going to use them.

    Yeah maybe an over reaction:) . I planted four runner bean plants, lost two to slugs. Ate all the leaves and killed them.


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    #1169
    flintash
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    neither carrot nor onion.
    I haven't clue what broccoli looks like LOL


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    #1170
    New Home
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    Looks a bit like a sunflower to me.


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    #1171
    Pinch Flat
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    New Home wrote: »
    Looks a bit like a sunflower to me.

    Yes I downloaded an app that suggested this. I'm 100% sure it's not though. I hardened these off inside so no chance of it being a stray seed


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