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Please Help! Crazy Vine-like weed with Carrot-like Root!

11 years ago

I keep finding weeds that are popping up that look almost carrot like at the end. I dig them up and they're huge. I took a picture of them below. Can someone PLEASE help me in finding out what exactly this is?

If I remember correctly, it grows very tall and vine like if allowed to.

Also, I'd like to know how to get rid of it? So far, I've been digging it up but it's starting to sprout in places that are pretty difficult to get to.

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tsugajunkie z5 SE WI ♱

2 years ago

And take pix before you pull it so it isn’t withered.

tj

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Carrie B
11 years ago
It might be helpful to add your location and/or USDA zone to your page so have a sense of where the plant is growing.
foolishpleasure
11 years ago
The root looks scary. Why don't you vegetation killer. The weed was sending me to the mental institution until I PUT MY HANFS on strazecide vegetation killer. The only ones I still pull by hands are those who decide to grow very close to the vegetable roots.
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ironorchid
11 years ago
it looks like english ivy. we had some old giant clumps, with large roots like that. every piece of root will try and come back. multiple doses of roundup on the new growth finally killed it.
flora_uk
11 years ago
This is not English Ivy (Hedera helix). Ivy doesn't have a root like that, is not herbaceous ie does not'pop up' and does not have hirsute leaves and stems.
rhizo_1 (North AL) zone 7
11 years ago
Here's a crazy question: is the top of that plant actually attached to the root/tuber....or did it just come from the same location?

Also, aside from letting us know your general location, how about give us a size estimation of this root.
carol23_gw
11 years ago
It is something in Cucurbitaceae. Without adult foliage, flowers, or fruit and location, we are not likely to solve this. Kendra has not replied to this post or the Weed Forum post about location or other traits.
Guenther Richters
2 years ago
I had hopes after another webpage led me here, but to no avail. I live in middle Spain; the "carrot root" is white, 15 mm in diameter 10 cm long. Pulling it up caused it to immediately wither.
Jay 6a Chicago
2 years ago
last modified: 2 years ago
Guenther Richters, Can you share a photo of the plant in question? This post is 8 years old, and the original photos are no longer accessible.
ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
2 years ago
high hopes on an 8 year old post .. thats so old the pix are gone..

guenther ... start your own post... include pix of you plant.. .and lets start fresh ..

ken

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