Some plants I'd really like to identify but can't :(

kaleidoscopeflux

14 years ago

These guys have been sticking around my unidentified folder for wayyy too long!

Here they are, with brief descriptions,

I'd really appreciate your help! :)

1. Green curled-up leaf emerging from the ground:

http://img23.imageshack.us/i/sany0009i.jpg/

2. Arrow-shaped leaf:

http://img9.imageshack.us/i/sany0128j.jpg/

3. Four-petalled pink flower

http://img9.imageshack.us/i/sany0205v.jpg/

4. Flat leaf groundcover

http://img10.imageshack.us/i/sany0015i.jpg/

5. Radar-like leaf with cluster of flowers

http://img11.imageshack.us/i/sany0048e.jpg/

6. ?

http://img16.imageshack.us/i/sany0064a.jpg/

7. Tiny blue flower

http://img9.imageshack.us/i/sany0066i.jpg/

8. White five-petalled flower

http://img41.imageshack.us/i/sany0067.jpg/

9. ?

http://img16.imageshack.us/i/sany0071r.jpg/

Small red flowers

http://img35.imageshack.us/i/sany0077b.jpg/
Ghostly white flowers

http://img198.imageshack.us/i/sany0115.jpg/
Pink flowers arched over all on a stem

http://img193.imageshack.us/i/sany0125.jpg/
Five-petalled pink flower, curious stamen

http://img37.imageshack.us/i/sany0012z.jpg/

http://img194.imageshack.us/i/sany0014.jpg/
Yellow five-petalled flower

http://img195.imageshack.us/i/sany0001s.jpg/

http://img194.imageshack.us/i/sany0002w.jpg/
Yellow dandelion-like flower, with hemp-like leaves

http://img30.imageshack.us/i/sany0017j.jpg/

http://img194.imageshack.us/i/sany0015.jpg/
Pink flower, strange leaves

http://img193.imageshack.us/i/sany0048x.jpg/

http://img30.imageshack.us/i/sany0051jax.jpg/
Blue five-petalled flower

http://img29.imageshack.us/i/sany0094.jpg/
Weird globe-like green cluster

http://img34.imageshack.us/i/sany0098.jpg/

Thanks a lot, everyone :D

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Comments (8)

skibumbill
14 years ago
#2 looks like either bind weed or other nightshade vine. Bind weed is a terrible invasive. Hopefully its not that.

Some info on bindeed
catman529
14 years ago
Going in no particular order -

6 looks like Teasel, not 100% sure but I'd look into it.

I have seen 18 growing around our house, but I can't get an ID.

17 might be some sort of phlox or related species.

12 looks like Cow Vetch (Vicia cracca). Not sure if there are related look-alikes or not, but we have this stuff growing around a lot in our area.

5 looks like some species of honeysuckle, possibly Orange or Trumpet honeysuckle.

4 looks like young Jewelweed (Impatiens capensis).

Hope this helps
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carol23_gw
14 years ago
. Four-petalled pink flower
http://img9.imageshack.us/i/sany0205v.jpg/
Dentaria
stimpy926
14 years ago
#16 maybe a geranium
offplumb
14 years ago
3- agree w/ carol123 - dentaria leaves
4 - jewelweed seedlings
5- lonicera- maybe ?sempervirens???
11- maybe allium?
13- geranium - maybe -maculatum??
17- phlox
18- maybe one of the sedges - carex
fatamorgana2121
14 years ago
4 jewelweed
6 teasel
7 speedwell
9 wait for more mature leaves
12 some vetch?
13 wild geranium
14 buttercup
15 cinquefoil leaves, hawkweed flower
16 a sedge?

In the future, post one picture at a time and use the optional URL link at the bottom to get a clickable link. Or put HTML tags around your url's to include the pix right into the post. You'll probably get a better response that way.

FataMorgana
kaleidoscopeflux
Original Author
14 years ago
Thanks a lot, everyone :D
weedwoman
14 years ago
A lot of these are the same as suggestions above
1) Maianthemum canadense, Canada Mayflower, probably.
2) Wild Lettuce, maybe
3) Cut Leaved Toothwort, Cardamine concatenata
4) Jewelweed seedlings, Impatiens capensis or pallida
5) Lonicera something, some vining honeysuckle
6) Maybe Teasel
7) Veronica spp
8) Chickweed, maybe Stellaria graminea
9) ?Wild Cucumber Vine?
10)?
1. Waterleaf, Hydrophyllum, need to see the leaves
2. Vicia cracca, Cow Vetch, or something similar.
3. Geranium maculatum, Wild Geranium
4. Buttercups, Ranunculus spp
5. The leaf and flower aren't from the same plant. The leaf is some kind of Potentilla, I think, and the flower is a Hawkweed, probably King Devil, Hieraciujm caespitosum because of the black hairs.
6. Another Geranium, maybe?
7. Wild blue Phlox, Phlox divaricata
8. A sedge, maybe Carex intumescens
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