Unwanted Plant Identity ?

AlittleSalt · June 7, 2015

I've seen these weeds for the past 50 years. I never knew what they were called. The stems have a thorn or prickle on them every few inches. The roots are very deep. If you try to pull them up - you get a few inches of stem out of the ground but no roots. I use a shovel to get them out.

greyghost · June 7, 2015

If it has a blueish tomato blossom (with a bright yellow anther cone), I
think it may be "deadly nightshade". We get them here, too. Often, I'll
find them dried in hay with a dried yellow fruit (no idea what color it'd
be before dried in the hay) that's just a bit smaller than a marble.
Google "deadly nightshade" and see if it's a match. Darlene

AlittleSalt · June 7, 2015

I don't remember ever seeing a berry on them.

Worth1 · June 7, 2015

I'm not for sure either but they come back up from the root every year.
At least the one buy my cactus does.

Worth

AlittleSalt · June 7, 2015

That's the other thing Worth. It seems they always grow next to something. I don't see them out in the open very much. The ones in the pictures are growing right beside and a few inches away from our smooth cactuses/cacti. They look like prickly pears but without the prickles.

I'm thinking they get little yellow flowers in late summer, but I might be thinking of another weed that looks sort of like it.

4season · June 7, 2015

Do they smell when bruised ? The leaves look like datura stramonium or jimson weed. Another member of the niteshade family with all parts toxic. Some people get them as trumpet flower or some such at nurseries. I would think twice about the purchase of a toxic plant.

Worth1 · June 7, 2015

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Originally Posted by 4season

Do they smell when bruised ? The leaves look like datura stramonium or jimson weed. Another member of the niteshade family with all parts toxic. Some people get them as trumpet flower or some such at nurseries. I would think twice about the purchase of a toxic plant.

I had a woman give me seeds to the so called moon flower AKA jimsonweed weed.
I threw the things in the trash.

Salt mine dont look like yours I just looked before the sun went down my leaves are not scalloped like yours and they are putting on a profusion of small flowers right now.

Mine seem to be perennial.

Worth

Redbaron · June 7, 2015

could be a strain of wild lettuce. Are there spines on the underside of the leaves along the ribs??

AlittleSalt · June 8, 2015

I guess I need to grow one out.

Worth1 · June 8, 2015

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Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

I guess I need to grow one out.

You should.
Even give it some loving care.
I had a poke weed that was about 15 feet tall in the back yard where I used to live.
I did this by treating it as a yard plant and fertilizing and watering it.

I have given up on the one that is by the cactus, for years now the thing keeps coming up.
It is now a part of my landscape.

Worth

AlittleSalt · June 8, 2015

Worth, we have a weed growing in this huge pot. I'm guessing around 5 gallons. It is natural here, and it grows a beautiful blue flower. I have to rethink what is a weed. I do know the definition for a weed is an unwanted plant.

Lorri D · June 8, 2015

I got some city compost and then I found this weed growing in it. Jimson weed (Datura Stramonium L.) It is very poisonous and I would not have it around if you have children or pets. It does make a pretty flower though. If you do keep it, you will have to figure out what to do when it goes to seed, because it will have hundreds of black seeds spill from its giant seed head.

June 7, 2015	#5
AlittleSalt BANNED FOR LIFE Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 13,333	That's the other thing Worth. It seems they always grow next to something. I don't see them out in the open very much. The ones in the pictures are growing right beside and a few inches away from our smooth cactuses/cacti. They look like prickly pears but without the prickles. I'm thinking they get little yellow flowers in late summer, but I might be thinking of another weed that looks sort of like it. Last edited by AlittleSalt; June 7, 2015 at 09:56 PM.

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Redbaron Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Sep 2012 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 4,488	could be a strain of wild lettuce. Are there spines on the underside of the leaves along the ribs?? __________________ Scott AKA The Redbaron "Permaculture is a philosophy of working with, rather than against nature; of protracted & thoughtful observation rather than protracted & thoughtless labour; & of looking at plants & animals in all their functions, rather than treating any area as a single-product system." Bill Mollison co-founder of permaculture

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AlittleSalt BANNED FOR LIFE Join Date: May 2014 Posts: 13,333	Worth, we have a weed growing in this huge pot. I'm guessing around 5 gallons. It is natural here, and it grows a beautiful blue flower. I have to rethink what is a weed. I do know the definition for a weed is an unwanted plant. Last edited by AlittleSalt; June 8, 2015 at 10:48 AM.

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greyghost Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: southeastern PA Posts: 760	If it has a blueish tomato blossom (with a bright yellow anther cone), I think it may be "deadly nightshade". We get them here, too. Often, I'll find them dried in hay with a dried yellow fruit (no idea what color it'd be before dried in the hay) that's just a bit smaller than a marble. Google "deadly nightshade" and see if it's a match. Darlene

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Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	I'm not for sure either but they come back up from the root every year. At least the one buy my cactus does. Worth

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4season Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2014 Location: albuquerque Posts: 308	Do they smell when bruised ? The leaves look like datura stramonium or jimson weed. Another member of the niteshade family with all parts toxic. Some people get them as trumpet flower or some such at nurseries. I would think twice about the purchase of a toxic plant.