The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Growing => Identification => Topic started by: straush on October 11, 2016, 11:12:19 am
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Lots of these plants/weeds came up in my garden on the lawn - any idea ?- was also going to let a goat have access and hope it's not poisonous
Thank you
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First leaves of a lot of weeds are not really leaves so don't look like the real leaves making identification quite hard at this stage.
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I know it should be obvious scaling to the keyboard, but how long is that large leaf?
Have to say it doesn't look like our nettles ?
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It's about 10 cm . We have lots of nettles in the paddock and it's not the same.
It only grows in one patch directly under a tree - as we are new on the house I don't know what it looked like before.
Will try and get bigger picture but the forum reduces the size and therefore the quality
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What is the tree? Is it likely to have dropped seeds?
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It's a good quality pic when you tap on it to enlarge. Looks familiar but just can't place it.
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It's not a nettle.
Like penninehillbilly I too can place it but cannot remember what the heck it's called.
The root looks like a common hogweed type root (nettle roots for a plant that size are smaller and tend to be more fibrous).
Can you leave the to grow on a bit until we see what the leaves turn in to? Or pot a couple up.
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My guess - one of the petasites species, e.g. Winter Heliotrope. No idea if petasites are poisonous to livestock.
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I thought burdock?
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Thanks for all the replies - looks like winter heliotrope
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I thought burdock?
I thought so too - perhaps rather a bright green for burdock, though?
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straush, Is it flowering yet?