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And wildflowers. "...a gardener who knows his flowers and is ignorant of his weeds is like half a coin, a tail without a head." Sara B. Stein

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

This popped up in place of a crape myrtle that didn't make it this summer. Any guesses?

Posted by Pam J. at 10/05/2011 09:02:00 PM 0 comments
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White flowers

  • Boneset
  • Garlic mustard
  • Hairy bittercress
  • Mouse-ear chickweed
  • Yarrow

Yellow flowers

  • Common mullein
  • Creeping Jenny
  • Lesser celandine
  • Red sorrel
  • Sheep sorrel
  • Sowthistle
  • Sunflower before blooming
  • Sunflower blooming
  • Swamp sunflower
  • Wood sorrel
  • Yellow rocket

Pink flowers

  • Bee balm
  • Crown Vetch
  • Cutleaf toothwort
  • Deptford pink
  • Smartweed
  • Spring beauty
  • Wild bergamot

Blue-Violet-Purple flowers

  • Bluets
  • Bog-rosemary
  • Forget-me-nots
  • Purple loosestrife
  • Turkish speedwell
  • Virginia bluebells

Common name

  • Barberry
  • Bluet
  • Bog-rosemary
  • Boneset
  • Clammy ground cherry
  • Cleavers
  • Crabgrass
  • Cranesbill
  • Creeping charlie (gill over the ground, ground ivy)
  • Creeping jenny
  • Crown vetch
  • Cutleaf Toothwort
  • Deptford pink
  • Dock
  • Fleabane
  • Forget-me-not
  • Garlic mustard
  • Goosegrass
  • Hairy bittercress
  • Japanese knotweed
  • Lady's thumb
  • Lemon balm
  • Lesser celandine
  • Mock (false) strawberry
  • Money or honesty plant
  • Mouse-ear chickweed
  • Mullein
  • Obedient plant
  • Plantain
  • Pokeweed
  • Purple loosestrife
  • Purslane
  • Sheep sorrel
  • Smartweed
  • Sowthistle
  • Spiked speedwell
  • Spotted spurge
  • Spring beauty
  • St. John's wort
  • Swamp sunflower
  • Turkish speedwell
  • Virginia bluebells
  • White wood aster
  • Wood sorrel
  • Yarrow
  • Yellow nutsedge
  • Yellow rocket

Latin name

  • Achillea millefolium
  • Alliaria petiolata
  • Andromeda polifolia
  • Barbarea vulgaris
  • Berberis thunbergii var. atropurpurea
  • Cardamine hirsuta
  • Cerastium glomeratum
  • Claytonia virginica
  • Clechoma hederacea
  • Cyperus esculentus
  • Dentaria laciniata
  • Dianthus armeria
  • Digitaria ischaemum
  • Duchesnea indica
  • Eleusine indica
  • Erigeron philadelphicus
  • Eupatorium album
  • Euphorbia maculata
  • Eurybia divaricata
  • Galium aparine
  • Geranium endressii
  • Helianthus angustifolius
  • Houstonia caerulea
  • Hypericum perforatum
  • Lunaria annua
  • Lysimachia nummularia
  • Lythrum salicaria
  • Melissa officinalis
  • Mertensia virginica
  • Myosotis sylvatica
  • Oxalis stricta
  • Oxalis stricta
  • Persicaria lapathifolium
  • Physalis heterophylla
  • Physostegia virginiana
  • Phytolacca americana
  • Plantago major
  • Portulaca oleracea
  • Ranunculus ficaria
  • Rumex acetosella
  • Rumex obtusifolius
  • Securigera varia
  • Sonchus arvensis
  • Verbascus thapsus
  • Veronica liwanensis
  • Veronica spicata

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Blog Archive

  • ►  2012 (6)
    • ►  May (2)
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    • ►  April (3)
      • Yellow rocket (Barbarea vulgaris). I think.
      • Cutleaf toothwort (Dentaria laciniata). Another th...
      • Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica). Thanks, MrIL...
    • ►  January (1)
      • I think the common mullein (Verbascum thapsus) loo...
  • ▼  2011 (15)
    • ▼  October (1)
      • This popped up in place of a crape myrtle that did...
    • ►  September (1)
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    • ►  July (6)
      • Monarda fistulosa. Also called Wild bergamot or B...
      • Michelle is right: it's young pokeweed.
      • ?
      • ?????
      • ???
      • It's high weed season in my yard. Anyone know what...
    • ►  June (1)
      • Sheep sorrel (AKA red sorrel), Rumex acetosella. ...
    • ►  May (5)
      • ???
      • What's this? Could it be euphorbia? 5/13/11: No....
      • Weeds CAN be beautiful! Fleabane and buttercups.
      • Could this be gaura? If so, I'll move it out of t...
      • ???
    • ►  March (1)
      • Hairy bittercress is in full flower. To call it i...
  • ►  2010 (22)
    • ►  September (3)
      • 10/21/10 Update: Swamp sunflower is the best guess...
      • Laura says Helianthus aka sunflower.
      • ??? Next door near the pond.
    • ►  August (2)
      • Next door by the pond. [Theora says probably Purpl...
      • Bad pictures of this latest mystery weed. Must try...
    • ►  July (2)
      • Found this one hiding in a neglected part of my ga...
      • Crown Vetch (Securigera varia) says Michelle. Than...
    • ►  June (3)
      • Garlic mustard.
      • Sheep sorrel, suggests Michelle. I think she may b...
      • 4/12/11: Cleavers, Clivers, Goosegrass, Stickywill...
    • ►  May (7)
      • Creeping Jenny blooms. This is why I love my weed...
      • June 12 update: Deptford Pink (Dianthus armeria)
      • Cranesbill (Geranium endressii)
      • 10/10/10: White boneset or thoroughwort. I'm le...
      • Forget-me-not (Myosotis sylvatica).
      • ???
      • Sowthistle (Sonchus arvensis). [5/24/10 update]
    • ►  April (4)
      • Could be something I planted & forgot about. I won...
      • Virginia bluebells (Mertensia virginica).
      • Bluets or Houstonia caerulea.
      • Lesser celandine (not marsh marigold).
    • ►  March (1)
      • Weeds in Italy versus weeds in Maryland. The ones...
  • ►  2009 (60)
    • ►  November (3)
      • Still a mystery. Looks like its name should have ...
      • ??? It's kind of viney.
      • Yarrow? Yes, says Michelle. Achillea millefolium.
    • ►  October (7)
      • Could be lady's thumb, or Pennsylvania smartweed, ...
      • ???
      • 4/12/11: Turkish speedwell (thanks andrea, see com...
      • See also September 23. Looks like, but isn't, rose...
    • ►  September (10)
    • ►  August (2)
    • ►  July (10)
    • ►  June (1)
    • ►  May (18)
    • ►  April (9)

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