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Three Plants From Pots to ID From This Year

14 years ago

I decided to repost the first and last plants from my other thread along with a new one to get a better chance of IDing them.

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This fist plant had a square stem and attracted some sort of miniature scale to it. I never saw it before and it just popped up in three of my pots this year. I do not believe that it had any sort of smell when broken.

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This next plant I have a suspicion about, but nothing definite.

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This third plant occasionally comes up in my pots. It has soft and somewhat hairy leaves. Someone in the last thread suggested that it might be a wild variety of Lobelia.

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I hope someone can ID these three plants.

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Comments (4)

User
14 years ago
I agree that #3 is a lobelia--Lobelia inflata I think.

Here is a link that might be useful:
Carrie B
14 years ago
Could the second one be a variety of lactuca, prickly/wild lettuce?
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Flora uk, you hit it dead on. I wouldn't have said that it was common in this area, or for that matter, even existed here. I have a wildflower book for Pennsylvania and it is not even mentioned. Neither is it's cousin, Alfilaria, otherwise known as Storksbill. Wild Geranium (Geranium maculatum) is mentioned in the book, though. However, I found a very small group of Dove's Foot Geranium growing close to a cemetery and noted that it was quite beautiful. I didn't think that I had collected any plants or seeds, but apparently I was wrong. Until you gave a name and I looked it up, I had no idea what the pink flower I had found was called. That just leaves 1 and 7 to ID. I have now changed my mind on #3 and am starting to agree that it is most likely Pokeweed. I was thrown off by the fact that it's stem was turning red while it was so young, which it shouldn't normally.
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Original Author
14 years ago
I think I agree that #3 is in fact Indian Tobacco. That means that I have been pulling out the very plant I have been trying for a while to grow. I found a single website with a picture of a rosette of Indian Tobacco leaves on it and it does indeed resemble what I have.

I will have to transplant some and try growing them indoors during the winter.

As for #2, it could very well be in the Wild Lettuce family. My plants don't appear to be prickly... yet. I have seeds for Lactuca canadensis, but I don't believe that I ever planted any of them.
fatamorgana2121
14 years ago
Number 2 looks like a radish to me. The leaves and stem color can vary with radish variety.

FataMorgana

Here is a link that might be useful: Google Images - Radish Leaf

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