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Plant & Weed ID Megathread

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    #992
    standardg60
    Registered Users Posts: 4,241 ✭✭✭standardg60


    'some kind of willowy thing' is a perfect description.
    It's a widely diverse genus which even botanists struggle with.
    For example, the golden weeping willow (the big arching one usually seen beside water) is variously known as;
    Salix X sepulcralis 'chrysocoma'
    Salix alba 'vitellina pendula'
    Salix alba 'tristis'
    Salix babylonica 'ramulus aureis'.

    Hillier's also refers to some of the following common names; white, scarlet, grey, violet, bay, hoary ( not to be confused with woolly obviously), coyote, goat, crack, and finally the only one that makes any sense..cricket bat.

    Hope that makes you feel better :-).


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    #993
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    I think you are write with Grey Willow. Although associated with damp conditions, it can grow perfectly well in drier areas too. Leaves look right shape, colour above and below. Most of the basketry willows "Salix viminalis and hybrids" have longer leaves, Goat Willow has wider appley leaves. Probably seeded itself. With the dead wood, this is normal too, willows will routinely lose dead/dying branches and boughs through their life cycle.


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    #994
    CelticRambler
    Registered Users Posts: 6,695 ✭✭✭CelticRambler


    standardg60 wrote: »
    'some kind of willowy thing' is a perfect description.

    ...

    Hope that makes you feel better :-).

    Yep! :D Our local canton-town name refers to a/the willow, so it'd make sense for there still to be a fair bit around and about. I'll make up some story about it to amuse the visitors! :pac:

    A different bush which appeared a few years ago and looked initially like it was yet another one of these has flowered this year and revealed itself to be a common privet. It's proving to be very interesting watching the variety of trees and shrubs that have re-colonised an area that was literally scraped bare (with a JCB) by the previous owner.


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    #995
    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    Right people. Found this growning in the mother in laws garden. Looks fantastic. self seeded from somewhere or came from bird seed she has about the place. It's about 3ft wide and 2 hight.

    20200531-200641.jpg


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    #996
    macraignil
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    Reckless Abandonment wrote: »
    Right people. Found this growning in the mother in laws garden. Looks fantastic. self seeded from somewhere or came from bird seed she has about the place. It's about 3ft wide and 2 hight.

    20200531-200641.jpg


    Is it viper's burgloss?


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    #997
    Reckless Abandonment
    Registered Users Posts: 1,493 ✭✭✭Reckless Abandonment


    macraignil wrote: »
    Is it viper's burgloss?

    That's her. The bees are loving it.


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    #998
    sammyjo90
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    Hey guys. Can anyone tell me what these are?
    Tried my dad and his old school books of plants /flowers and he had no clue
    Bottom one is pretty invasive.


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    #999
    Brego888
    Registered Users Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭Brego888


    Hi all

    Can you tell me the specific plant I have here for hedging?
    I assume its probably the most common laurel in the world but I haven't a clue.


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    #1000
    lottpaul
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    sammyjo90 wrote: »
    Hey guys. Can anyone tell me what these are?
    Tried my dad and his old school books of plants /flowers and he had no clue
    Bottom one is pretty invasive.
    Top one is Jerusalem sage -can't remember the correct name - bottom one is Alchemilla Mollis - Our Ladys Mantle

    Edit:
    Jer Sage is a Phlomis


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    #1001
    macraignil
    Registered Users Posts: 3,359 ✭✭✭macraignil


    Brego888 wrote: »
    Hi all

    Can you tell me the specific plant I have here for hedging?
    I assume its probably the most common laurel in the world but I haven't a clue.


    Looks like common laurel to me as well.


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    #1002
    New Home
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    macraignil wrote: »
    Looks like common laurel to me as well.

    Word of advice: DO NOT mis-type "common laurel" in a search engine. Especially not from a work computer. :eek:


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    #1003
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    Brego888 wrote: »
    Hi all

    Can you tell me the specific plant I have here for hedging?
    I assume its probably the most common laurel in the world but I haven't a clue.

    Yes, Prunus laurocerasus, Cherry Laurel


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    #1004
    sammyjo90
    Registered Users Posts: 13,135 ✭✭✭✭sammyjo90


    lottpaul wrote: »
    Top one is Jerusalem sage -can't remember the correct name - bottom one is Alchemilla Mollis - Our Ladys Mantle

    Edit:
    Jer Sage is a Phlomis

    Thanks!!


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    #1005
    MacDanger
    Registered Users Posts: 2,352 ✭✭✭MacDanger


    Anyone able to identify this plant that's spreading quite a lot in the back garden of the house we're renting?


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    #1006
    GinSoaked
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭GinSoaked


    Another figwort a Plant & Weed ID Megathread classic.

    Looks to me like Water Figwort, Scrophularia auriculata because of the wings on the stems and rounded ends to the leaves but open to suggestions.


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    #1007
    Frisbee
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    Hey, could anyone tell me what kind of plant the attached is?


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    #1008
    CiaranTheGreat
    Registered Users Posts: 174 ✭✭CiaranTheGreat


    Frisbee wrote: »
    Hey, could anyone tell me what kind of plant the attached is?

    Libertia grandiflora


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    #1009
    Frisbee
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    Nice one, cheers!


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    #1010
    Bawnmore
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    Anyone know what this fella is:

    IMG-20200530-154350.jpg


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    #1011
    New Home
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    Long leaved sundew - a carnivorous plant!

    http://www.ipcc.ie/a-to-z-peatlands/carnivorous-plants-killers-in-the-bog/


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    #1012
    Bawnmore
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    New Home wrote: »
    Long leaved sundew - a carnivorous plant!

    http://www.ipcc.ie/a-to-z-peatlands/carnivorous-plants-killers-in-the-bog/

    Awesome - thanks!


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    #1013
    New Home
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    Is this Lithospermum Arvense? I'm not convinced.

    515129.jpg


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    #1014
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    Are the petals dissected, or is that just the pic? Apart from that, if its not L. arvense, it's doing a very good imitation of it!
    Did you sow a seed mix?


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    #1015
    New Home
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    Yes, all the petals are like that. It sprouted on its own (together with a huge amount of milk thistle and willowherb) from soil I got from a bag of Shamrock multi-purpose compost (which also had some very suspicious strings of orange-coloured roots which I fished out :eek:).

    I'm not sure what that it, if it's invasive and should be eradicated immediately or whether it's a useful plant for pollinators or even if it's an edible plant.


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    #1016
    Clarabel
    Registered Users Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭Clarabel


    If it quacks like a duck but walks like a goose...what is it?

    This looks like nettle, that's just over a week's growth. But no stings. Is it nettle?


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    #1017
    New Home
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    Could be Lamium.


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    #1018
    Clarabel
    Registered Users Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭Clarabel


    If it quacks like a duck but walks like a goose...what is it?

    This looks like nettle, that's just over a week's growth. But no stings. Is it nettle?


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    #1019
    Clarabel
    Registered Users Posts: 2,926 ✭✭✭Clarabel


    Weed or not?

    Small yellow flower.


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    #1020
    New Home
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    Clarabel wrote: »
    Weed or not?

    Small yellow flower.

    That looks like a seed head, the petals have dropped off. A type of buttercup, perhaps?
    Clarabel wrote: »
    If it quacks like a duck but walks like a goose...what is it?

    This looks like nettle, that's just over a week's growth. But no stings. Is it nettle?

    I'd still say Lamium.


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    #1021
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    Clarabel wrote: »
    Weed or not?

    Small yellow flower.

    Geum urbanum, Wood Avens - wildflower


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