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Please ID wildflowers & Vine

15 years ago

Hi all, below is a link to a Webshots album with pictures of 8 wildflowers and a vine growing on my property. The wildflowers have bloomed all through the summer and the date is in the title of the picture. Could you please take a look and help ID these plants? Hope the pictures are clear enough to be helpful.

Thanks in advance!!

Here is a link that might be useful: Plant IDs needed

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SusanC
15 years ago
Wildflower5 looks like Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, rabbit tobacco.

Here is a link that might be useful: Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, rabbit tobacco
SusanC
15 years ago
I believe Wildflower3 is Circaea lutetiana, enchanter's nightshade.

Here is a link that might be useful: Circaea lutetiana, enchanter's nightshade
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fatamorgana2121
15 years ago
Wildflower1 - St. John's Wort Hypericum perforatum
Wildflower6 - Beggarticks Bidens Pilosa

FataMorgana
flora_uk
15 years ago
No 4 looks like an Epilobium (willowherb). I don't know which ones would be in your area. Vine 2 looks like a Lonicera (honeysuckle). Again I can't tell you which one it would be.
weedwoman
15 years ago
2 is Rabbit's Foot Clover, Trifolium arvense.
7 looks like it has 4 petaled flowers and I think I see some round flat seedpods, which mean it's in the Mustard family. You might take a look at Field Peppergrass, Lepidum campestre, or something along those lines, I can't really tell from the picture.
8) looks like a Fleabane, Erigeron spp. Again, I can't tell from the picture - might be E. annuus but there are others.
Your vine looks like Japanese Honeysuckle, Lonicera japonica. The flowers smell wonderful but it is a terrible weed.

WW
terrene
Original Author
15 years ago
Thanks for all the IDs so far! It is very helpful. To sum up so far -

1) Hypericum perforatum - St John's Wort

2) Trifolium arvense - Rabbit's foot clover

3) Circaea lutetiana, enchanter's nightshade

4) Epilobium species - not sure which species but it does look a little like Epilobium roseum?

5) Pseudognaphalium obtusifolium, rabbit tobacco

6) ??? don't think this is Bidens pilosa, it doesn't have white flowers, just those ugly yellow ones that always look closed. I added another photo for #6, which shows a better picture of the foliage - also this plant grew 3-4 feet tall

7) ??? don't think it's Lepidium campestre, foliage is different - I will try to take a closer pic of flowers

8) Erigeron species - note this one is blooming now, very late in season?

Vine is definitely Lonicera japonica! Thanks! That is an invasive, prohibited plant in my state and it is definitely going to be eradicated.
fatamorgana2121
15 years ago
Ok. Number 6 is still a Bidens sp. (beggar tick) of some sort. Perhaps Bidens frondosa, that's the kind that grows at my place and finds themselves hitching a ride on my clothes. :)

I included the link to the USDA images of the various Bidens species. Compare and see what you think.

FataMorgana

Here is a link that might be useful: Plants.usda.gov - Bidens Gallery
terrene
Original Author
15 years ago
Thanks for the link Fatamorgana, I think you're right, it looks like Bidens tripartita - three lobe Beggarticks. I wonder how the seeds got there, since apparently it is a wetland plant and my yard is upland.

Thanks for everyone's help. I wouldn't have a clue of their ID otherwise. It's nice to know that some are natives and I'll have to make a niche for them. The non-native weedy will be pulled over time.

Still not sure about #7 and #8. I will try to get a closeup on #7 flowers.

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