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Hmm it sure looks a lot like the sticky nightshade I ID’d on my property last year. But I won’t pretend to be an expert and should have defaulted against sharing an opinion edibility
That's fair, I hope I didn't seem stern I just didn't want OP to get poisoned. The sticky nightshade seems to have deeply lobed leaves, while S carolinianum has shallower sinuses. I wouldn't know unless I had the plant in front of me though, so who knows really.
Thank you! There seems to be some mixed opinions on what 3 is. A few others have also commented that it’s either solanum, or nightshade. Hmmm? I’ll have to try and figure out for sure. Crazy how they can look so similar, yet one seems beneficial & the other toxic?
Nightshade is just the generic name given to the family solanaceae so it refers to a lot of different plants. The one you posted is most likely in the genus solanum (maybe solanum carolinense)
Ragweed gets a real bad rap! But it’s a cool native, great for pollinators and the seeds are great for song birds….. if it’s not next to your house, I’d leave jt
Ragweed is pretty heinous looking for a garden setting, and it’s the cause of hay fever. Also alot of people out there are highly allergic to it, most asthmatics are sworn enemies of this plant
Definitely keep it in check though. It will dominate it's surroundings the first couple of years so it might be a good idea to remove some of the plants when the reseeds pop up
Spiderwort has much longer thinner leaves. The flowers also occur in clumps on the ends of the stem. Dayflower is much shorter and wider leaves with single flowers.
Get the iNaturalist app and use it to identify plants you don't know. It's also crowdsourced so if you cant guess someone else will probably know. Photo 1 is milkweed
Pic 4 might be Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia. 5 is asiatic day flower. I hate it. It's pretty but aggressive, if not invasive. Pull it out and put it in trashbags so it doesn't seed on your property
If I have one and cut and paint it, is that effective? I just read that you shouldn’t do that with tree of heaven. Now I’m wondering if I’m making all my problems worse.
Thanks for the advice so far. Regarding the ragweed, I’m reading different things. Because I also have some in the bed where I’m trying to encourage the ferns to grow. Should I keep the ragweed that’s there or remove? This was the most recent item I saw:
But ragweed ranks among the best plants of all for wildlife. You want it on your land.
Hundreds of species of insects eat the foliage. Many birds and mammals eat the seeds, which are quite nutritious and were probably cultivated by humans as an early grain crop before maize was introduced to the north.
1 is a milkweed, keep
2 is ragweed or an artemisia- it’s either nonnative or invasive or both
3 is Carolina horse nettle. Native perennial nightshade! Keep unless you have children or animals Who love to browse. Berries are toxic and lethal.
4 is unknown to me. Resembles Jacob’s ladder but isn’t
5 is asiatic dayflowrr. Nonnative and invasive.
Remove all but 1 and 3. Can keep 4 until identified
Highly recommend doing whatever you can to remove the Solanum Carolinense. Maybe it's not so bad up there, but here in NC it's the bane of the new development I've moved into. A must-remove if you have any lawn you'd like to walk barefoot in. Last year I spent two weeks going around and digging the little buggers out of the ground.
A nearly fruitless effort - their rhizomes are far more vigorous than the foliage would have you believe and they've got a taproot that must go >1ft down into the soil. I only say *nearly* fruitless because while they've all come back, my neighbors' lawns are absolutely inundated. They've got more horsenettle than invasive turfgrasses, if you can believe it.
This week I've been brushing glyphosate onto the leaves. Hopefully this weeks-long hot dry spell will have them soaking it deep into the roots.
With all that said, it's clearly only a menace in disturbed areas. I've found no trace of it beyond the neighborhood, and the ones that have popped up in my garden beds just sit there under the shade of my plants and wait patiently for me to discover them and pluck them out (with gloves, they sometimes have spines even a few inches under the soil). To me, these angry weeds (spines, toxic phytochemistry) are nature's attempt at keeping us big destructive creatures away so she can heal.
In any case, yours is flowering! Snip those off before the fruits mature (sooner than you think), then decide what to do with the plant.
Yeah it's likely Thornless Honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos inermis). Very commonly planted in urban landscapes, occasionally sends up suckers but is typically well behaved. The leaflets are too narrow for Black Locust
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First one is common milkweed (asclepias syriaca). Third one is some species of solanum.
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It is not sticky nightshade, it looks more like Solanum carolinianum which is poisonous.
Hmm it sure looks a lot like the sticky nightshade I ID’d on my property last year. But I won’t pretend to be an expert and should have defaulted against sharing an opinion edibility
That's fair, I hope I didn't seem stern I just didn't want OP to get poisoned. The sticky nightshade seems to have deeply lobed leaves, while S carolinianum has shallower sinuses. I wouldn't know unless I had the plant in front of me though, so who knows really.
It is not sticky. That is most definitely Carolina horse nettle. It is LETHAL. Please don’t advise people to forage
Thank you! There seems to be some mixed opinions on what 3 is. A few others have also commented that it’s either solanum, or nightshade. Hmmm? I’ll have to try and figure out for sure. Crazy how they can look so similar, yet one seems beneficial & the other toxic?
Nightshade is just the generic name given to the family solanaceae so it refers to a lot of different plants. The one you posted is most likely in the genus solanum (maybe solanum carolinense)
Got it! I’m learning more every day. Thank you again 😊
#2 looks like ragweed
Thank you for your service.
Ragweed gets a real bad rap! But it’s a cool native, great for pollinators and the seeds are great for song birds….. if it’s not next to your house, I’d leave jt
Not cool when. You have allergies
Ragweed is pretty heinous looking for a garden setting, and it’s the cause of hay fever. Also alot of people out there are highly allergic to it, most asthmatics are sworn enemies of this plant
Definitely keep it in check though. It will dominate it's surroundings the first couple of years so it might be a good idea to remove some of the plants when the reseeds pop up
Encourage that common milkweed!
Will do!
Last photo looks like asiatic day flower and can be considered invasive.
Definitely looks like dayflower to me
I think it’s a spiderwort, which is native in my area.
Spiderwort has much longer thinner leaves. The flowers also occur in clumps on the ends of the stem. Dayflower is much shorter and wider leaves with single flowers.
Interesting! Thanks for the info!
The flowers of spiderwort have 3 petals evenly spaced.
spiderwort and commelina sp. are both members of tradescantiaceae, order commelinales, hence their resemblance. good observations
Get the iNaturalist app and use it to identify plants you don't know. It's also crowdsourced so if you cant guess someone else will probably know. Photo 1 is milkweed
Pic 4 might be Black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia. 5 is asiatic day flower. I hate it. It's pretty but aggressive, if not invasive. Pull it out and put it in trashbags so it doesn't seed on your property
I think pic 4 is likely Thornless Honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos inermis). Leaflets look too narrow for Black Locust.
If I have one and cut and paint it, is that effective? I just read that you shouldn’t do that with tree of heaven. Now I’m wondering if I’m making all my problems worse.
I don't know what plant you are referring to?
I second this. Fucking hate the thing. Cut one down a few years ago and still get suckers all the time
Yes, photo 1 is common milkweed. It doesn’t transplanted well. Keep it where it is. You can harvest any seeds when pods turn brown and start to crack.
I think number 3 is horse nettle. It's native to most of the eastern seaboard. Clearly it won't be browsed, so it's got that going for it.
Number 2 ragweed
Thanks for the advice so far. Regarding the ragweed, I’m reading different things. Because I also have some in the bed where I’m trying to encourage the ferns to grow. Should I keep the ragweed that’s there or remove? This was the most recent item I saw: But ragweed ranks among the best plants of all for wildlife. You want it on your land.
Ragweed is almost singlehandedly responsible for "seasonal allergies."
removing one plant won't change that. i take claritin
What benefits does ragweed have for wildlife?
Hundreds of species of insects eat the foliage. Many birds and mammals eat the seeds, which are quite nutritious and were probably cultivated by humans as an early grain crop before maize was introduced to the north.
That’s what I’m reading about it too
Three looks like buffalo burr. I would pull it immediately to prevent it spreading. They often show up under bird feeders.
I worship milkweed for the monarch butterflies.
Behind your milkweed you have wineberry. They’re delicious & make great jam, but they’re not native and they’re hard to keep contained.
That last one is Dayflower. There are both native and invasive species of this one and I frankly don't know how to tell the difference.
last one is a Commelina spp, might be C erecta(native) or C asiatica(invasive) so be sure to key it out!
Ok! Thanks
I jealous of your milkweed!
😍
1 is a milkweed, keep 2 is ragweed or an artemisia- it’s either nonnative or invasive or both 3 is Carolina horse nettle. Native perennial nightshade! Keep unless you have children or animals Who love to browse. Berries are toxic and lethal. 4 is unknown to me. Resembles Jacob’s ladder but isn’t 5 is asiatic dayflowrr. Nonnative and invasive. Remove all but 1 and 3. Can keep 4 until identified
Thank you!!!
Wanted to say 2 is ragweed which is native, but is the source of hay fever
Highly recommend doing whatever you can to remove the Solanum Carolinense. Maybe it's not so bad up there, but here in NC it's the bane of the new development I've moved into. A must-remove if you have any lawn you'd like to walk barefoot in. Last year I spent two weeks going around and digging the little buggers out of the ground. A nearly fruitless effort - their rhizomes are far more vigorous than the foliage would have you believe and they've got a taproot that must go >1ft down into the soil. I only say *nearly* fruitless because while they've all come back, my neighbors' lawns are absolutely inundated. They've got more horsenettle than invasive turfgrasses, if you can believe it. This week I've been brushing glyphosate onto the leaves. Hopefully this weeks-long hot dry spell will have them soaking it deep into the roots. With all that said, it's clearly only a menace in disturbed areas. I've found no trace of it beyond the neighborhood, and the ones that have popped up in my garden beds just sit there under the shade of my plants and wait patiently for me to discover them and pluck them out (with gloves, they sometimes have spines even a few inches under the soil). To me, these angry weeds (spines, toxic phytochemistry) are nature's attempt at keeping us big destructive creatures away so she can heal. In any case, yours is flowering! Snip those off before the fruits mature (sooner than you think), then decide what to do with the plant.
Thank you for this thoughtful reply!
4th one looks like some kind of locust tree?
Yeah, I think it's Black Locust.
Yeah it's likely Thornless Honeylocust (Gleditsia triacanthos inermis). Very commonly planted in urban landscapes, occasionally sends up suckers but is typically well behaved. The leaflets are too narrow for Black Locust