The bronze foliaged forms ('Brazen Hussy', 'Coppernob', 'Double Mud', 'Tortoiseshell', etc.) tend to be somewhat more desirable garden plantings but all self-seed righteously. Since there is not too much else perennial-wise in bloom at this time of year, I welcome them and find they are easy to remove when they appear where not wanted but they can be a pest and I'd be concerned about them growing close to native areas where they could naturalize and take over. Oddly, this is a plant that self-sows so freely one wonders why it typically has such a high price tag when offered for sale in nurseries or mail order. The same with Geranium phaeum 'Samobor', which IS a weed in my garden yet costs the earth in nurseries. I've always found this rather perplexing.........

I had to look up "agapanthus," as that was not a name I'm familiar with. I'm familiar with the common name, 'Lily of the Nile' though. You're right, it does resemble one. The only thing I notice that may be different is that the leaves are thinner than I'm used to seeing on a 'Lily of the Nile.' They're resemble the thickness of a Dwarf Daylily than the 'Lily of the Nile' I used to have. Sorry, the leaves do look rather wide in the picture, but they're really not. Are there 'Lily of the Nile' plants that have narrow leaves? Maybe the one I used to have was just a monster lol. I guess I should have waited for a bloom to ask, eh? Planto

I would guess Ageratina altissima, white snakeroot. Looks like leaf miners. https://www.google.com/search?q=white+snakeroot&biw=1920&bih=940&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwja5aSAn4LOAhUJPCYKHcCHAfQQ_AUIBygA&dpr=1#q=ageratina+altissima+leaf+miner

Embothrium Given the tone, I took this thread as Barron poking fun at himself + a bit of aggravation and a lot of curiosity. Thats a bit heavy going. My mother had Alzheimer's and its much different than what is being described in jest here. We all make fun of ourselves as we get older because we all have these memory deals, like when I walk into the pantry and then can't remember right off what I was going to get (what did I come in here for?) or when I forget a name when I'm talking to someone. I always drag out the 'senility card' to "fix it" because the truth is, I don't pay attention when I'm introduced to people. I did the same thing when I was younger. Barron, year before last I had two plants with long slender leaves. I kept looking at those leaves thinking, I know those leaves, what is it---WHAT THE HECK IS IT? Drove me crazy as I went over and over all the plants I'd planted over the years. After about three months I was working out there one day when suddenly it dawned me. They were Desert Willow seedlings. By the time the light-bulb finally came on they were pretty far along. I had removed a tree two years earlier and pretty much forgotten about the tree. The thing was, I kept thinking in terms of some kind of perennial which was why the obvious didn't dawn on me until so much time had passed. I left one of them but don't know if I'm going to keep it or not. I keep going back and forth---leave the volunteer tree or leave the volunteer Flame Acanthus. Decisions, decisions.