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straush

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Poisonous to sheep/ goats and Id please
« on: October 11, 2016, 11:12:19 am »
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

Backinwellies

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Re: Poisonous to sheep/ goats and Id please
« Reply #1 on: October 11, 2016, 09:05:56 pm »
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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Penninehillbilly

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Re: Poisonous to sheep/ goats and Id please
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2016, 12:17:34 pm »
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 ?

straush

  • Joined Dec 2015
Re: Poisonous to sheep/ goats and Id please
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2016, 03:13:56 pm »
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

pharnorth

  • Joined Nov 2013
  • Cambridgeshire
Re: Poisonous to sheep/ goats and Id please
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2016, 04:39:52 pm »
What is the tree?  Is it likely to have dropped seeds?

Penninehillbilly

  • Joined Sep 2011
  • West Yorks
Re: Poisonous to sheep/ goats and Id please
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2016, 11:16:38 pm »
It's a good quality pic when you tap on it to enlarge. Looks familiar but just can't place it.

Carse Goodlifers

  • Joined Oct 2013
  • Perthshire
Re: Poisonous to sheep/ goats and Id please
« Reply #6 on: October 15, 2016, 11:10:23 am »
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.

arobwk

  • Joined Nov 2015
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Re: Poisonous to sheep/ goats and Id please
« Reply #7 on: October 17, 2016, 10:36:07 am »
My guess - one of the petasites species, e.g. Winter Heliotrope.  No idea if petasites are poisonous to livestock.

devonlady

  • Joined Aug 2014
Re: Poisonous to sheep/ goats and Id please
« Reply #8 on: October 17, 2016, 03:13:46 pm »
I thought burdock?

straush

  • Joined Dec 2015
Re: Poisonous to sheep/ goats and Id please
« Reply #9 on: October 17, 2016, 09:04:05 pm »
Thanks for all the replies - looks like winter heliotrope

Marches Farmer

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Re: Poisonous to sheep/ goats and Id please
« Reply #10 on: October 21, 2016, 07:26:19 am »
I thought burdock?
I thought so too - perhaps rather a bright green for burdock, though? 

arobwk

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Re: Poisonous to sheep/ goats and Id please
« Reply #11 on: November 22, 2016, 02:13:05 pm »
straush,  Is it flowering yet?

 

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