Question Can anyone identify?
- windwalkingwolf
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Re: Can anyone identify?
Apparently, it's medicinal use is as an emetic. Definitely not wanted here.
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- windwalkingwolf
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The goats were perfectly fine, but they're fine with virtually anything. Barberry, Buckthorn, milkweed, poison ivy, nightshades all on the menu.
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- windwalkingwolf
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Well, I finally dug up a clump of these. Sans loose goats, they are starting to take over. Nothing in the roots that look like I'd want to try boiling and mashing, so they're going to eventually be dug out and trashed. Anyone want some useless weeds perennial flowers?
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jerusalem artichokes? JK- I have no idea, but they're pretty. Invasive doesn't appeal to me if they aren't useful in some way, though.
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Re: Can anyone identify?
I am going to repeat myself here, still Coreopses.Ontario Chick wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2017 10:06 amShould have mentioned Coreopses will form colonies, a bit like the "wild Day lilies"
Jerusalem artichoke spread by rhizomes, a bit like potatoes if they were perennial and the new potatoes grew new plants next year.
BTW if you need some Jerusalem artichokes I have some of the "triffid" variety, happy to share.
This picture is from August, when they started to overtake the Apple tree
Jerusalem Artichoke August.jpg
the roots are a proof that it isn't Jerusalem artichoke, coz they would have some lovely tubers by now about the size of small new potatoes.
@windwalkingwolf I suggest you "re-home" them to neighbors who have unsightly storage of junk on their front lawns in random manner, (no need to dig a hole these will root wherever you throw them) and look at it as your effort at beautifying the countryside.
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Re: Can anyone identify?
The leaves and yellow flower look like a Helenium that I had in my old garden. I would be pulling out parts of the plant at any time because it would take over if I didn't.
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Re: Can anyone identify?
Just a thought. Download the free app. "Plantsnap" to instantly get an answer to variety. They claim over 585,000 plants are identified with 90% success. My wife uses it quite often to help her identify plants.
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- WLLady
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haha i know that plant!!!! it's a rudbeckia! i used to have this right beside the house and then the house renos killed it. i'm sad it's gone. loved that plant. in a good year it would be 10 feet tall. in a not so good year it was 4 feet tall. the hummingbirds and bees loved it. and the horses would nibble on what they could reach (likely why some years it was shorter). and in the fall i could cut down the dead stalks and use them as kindling. I had moved mine from town when we moved to the country. i found a few growing along the side of the field and tried to relocate it but it didn't come back in the spring.
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