Ok plant lovers..lol...help me with this one? This weed is coming up all over my garden. There's literally no plant...just a green stalk and what you see in the pic here. It's pretty, but I'm scared to let this seed out. I'm thinking it would take over?



Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

It looks like toad flax/Linaria canadensis to me, Maryjane - it grows here, too, but it doesn't spread all over the place, so I leave it alone.
I think it's sort of pretty!

Sherry

Wish I would have weeds that pretty!!

Joni
Elwood, IL
Zone 5

Thanks Sherry and Joni! I started searching pics of toad flax, and It might or might not be. (A lot of images are showing quite a bit of actual plant, and this has none.) I'll call it toad flax...works for me! So, in my garden I did not plant Toadflax OR Spiderwort...but they're both thriving. Wanna hear funny? Does that not sound like a witch's garden? I'm pagan. Hubby will laugh his butt off when I tell him this.



If a plant comes up called eye of newt I'm moving!

Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

It's definitely Toad flax Maryjane. I think it's real pretty too. Now the Spiderwort is another story. Rip it out! That stuff spreads like mad! I can't believe it is offered for sale in some places. It will take over real fast.
dell

Too funny, MJ. I love Halloween so it works for me!! I'm with Dell on the Spiderwort. It's pretty but it does spread.

Joni
Elwood, IL
Zone 5

Thanks for the tip Dell, but I have the ideal situation with this one. It's been there for almost 30 years. It's a very pretty "bunch". This plant decided to come up at the base of our False Almond, so the trees roots keep it drained of nutrition, and it can't (or hasn't) spread...hee! It blooms once a year. I like the look of the plant, and it's kind of cool at least something is growing around that tree because the tree borders my garden.

Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

MaryJane thank you for asking for an ID on the pretty weed. It is one of the first spring wildflowers to start blooming and it has always been so pretty to me. The field behind my house is covered with it. Last week my two youngest granddaughters brought me a bouquet of this flowers and another one we call Indian cane. They told me I needed a big vase to hold them. I did and it was the prettiest bouquet

I remember when I was small I picked these flowers.

Dianne
Southeast Alabama
Heat Zone 8
Sunset Zone 31

You're welcome Dianne. I know what you mean. I can remember many a time gathering bunches of wildflowers for my mama back in Florida, but of course the flowers (weeds) were very different. I'd never pick stuff like that two-toned pink/orange Lantana even though it was everywhere. (At that age all I knew was poison...didn't know about stages, lol.)

Thanks for taking me back in time.

Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

Its a very pretty plant. Wish It would grow in my garden.

Carol, I'll keep an eye out to se if I can figure out where it's seeds are. If I can acquire some I'll advise and send them if you want?

Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

One more time pretty please? I've looked all over the Internet, but I can't find this one either. This one keeps coming up in damp areas like around my Iris:





Anyone have any idea what this weed is? I swear I live in purple weed central! (The Spiderwort you ID'd is purple, so is the Toadflax, and now this one, lol).

Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

MaryJane could you please post a picture of the entire plant. I have it too. I have been pulling it up for years.

Dianne
Southeast Alabama
Heat Zone 8
Sunset Zone 31

The second pic is the entire plant. All I left out was the dirt and rocks it was growing amongst.

Do I have some weird weeds or what?

Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

Maryjane, I think your second plant is Eye of Newt,But there is Newt you can do about it, just keep an Eye on it.

Alan~S Cal

The flower looks like a Bellflower but usually in a clump. Just a guess.

Joni
Elwood, IL
Zone 5

Alan, you smarty pants, LOL!!!

Thanks Joni, but just like the Toadflax, this one grows individually. Maybe I'll just name it. i'm going to keep searching because I have another one that's driving me batso (Looks sort of like clover except it's light and thin..grows on runners and blooms yellow. It's trying to take over, and it loves to plant itself right in the roots of my good plants, arg.)

Mj in weed central

Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a

Looks like Venus' Looking Glass, Triodanis perfoliata

Laura
Elsberry, MO
Zone 5b

Laura, you nailed it! Thank you so much. (What a mouth full for a name: "Clasping Venus' Looking Glass" plants.edu calls it.

http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=TRPE4



Maryjane
W Ga
Zone 8a