2 plants need i.d.

xiangirl zone 4/5 Nebraska

10 years ago

Photo 1. Is this a weed?
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Photo 2: Is this a foxglove? Tall, spindly. Small off-white flowers.
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Comments (5)

CaraRose
10 years ago
#1, looks like ragweed to me Ambrosia artemisiifolia

#2 doesn't look like foxglove to me. Hollyhock?
carol23_gw
10 years ago
Verbascum blattaria for the second plant perhaps.
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missingtheobvious
10 years ago
#2 definitely isn't foxglove or hollyhock. It may well be moth mullein, Verbascum blattaria. Compare with the close-up photo here:
http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/vesbl.htm
xiangirl zone 4/5 Nebraska
Original Author
10 years ago
Thank you. Appreciate your help. I did plant mullein there, but it was labeled a different kind so wasn't expecting that. Now I'm wiser!
Heidi
missingtheobvious
10 years ago
Moth mullein is one of those wildflowers that are also, rarely, garden plants. Mine first showed up as a volunteer in a flower bed that had been lawn for 50 years. No idea where the seed came from....

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