Please ID this weed

winstonsmith

15 years ago

This is a common weed in Colorado, but I don't know its name. Can anyone ID it?

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http://www.users.qwest.net/~choice170470127/Whatkindofweedisthis.jpg

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Iris GW
15 years ago
Would really need to see a leaf and the part of the stem where the leaf joins the stem. Also, you have posted this question on the "native" plant forum, but not all plants found in the wild are native. You may want to post this on a broader forum such as the "name that plant" forum.
carol23_gw
15 years ago
I would look at the site linked below. Does it have spines or thorns? Looks like it may have flowered and has fluffy seedheads. Russian thistle?

My suggestions are :
http://www.co.larimer.co.us/publicworks/weeds/30weeds/dflax.htm

http://www.co.larimer.co.us/publicworks/weeds/30weeds/kochia.htm

http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=Salsola%20iberica&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

Here is a link that might be useful: 30 weeds in Colorado
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I fed the birds a lot this winter and I'm going to see this same thing, I'm sure, when it starts to warm up. If you don't want them pull them early because the larger they get the harder they are to pull. I always let a few grow but they pull out easily at this stage.
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Because you haven't had any responses, I thought I'd try to look up your plant in my weed book (Weeds of the Northern U.S. and Canada). Because you're in Georgia, maybe this is a species that wouldn't be covered but here are a couple of GUESSES: small snap dragon? blue-eyed mary? Have the plants flowered since you took the pictures? It looks like maybe there are some pinkish buds in the pictures but I can't be sure.
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They do eventually flower, so you want to pull them up before they make lots and lots of little mare's tail seeds. They some right up, so it's not too bad.
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I wish that you would post this in the Name This Plant forum. I believe it to be dodder, a parasitic plant, but would like the experts in that forum to look at it.
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vbain
15 years ago
also, please rub the leaves and determine if it has a scent
terrestrial_man
15 years ago
MaybeSt. Johnswort? check the link below

Here is a link that might be useful: Common weeds of Colorado
botanybob
15 years ago
Looks kind of like alfalfa.

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