Thanks everyone! I was afraid to pull it in case it was actually a veggie plant! Oddly enough they are in some form of a row!

I agrre with Pvick, looks like Pink Mallow. Be careful with it - produces lots of seedlings which have a very long tap root, so get rid of unwanted seedlings when in their early stages. Produces a lovely bloom in late June in my zone.

Years ago, I purchased seeds that were identified as both W. filifera and W. robusta. Only the robustas survived and continued to the present day--pure filiferas all seemed to die out over time. Some of my current collection of Washingtonias were seed grown, one brought up from Miami, and a few supermarket bought locally (which was unusual because neither filifera, robusta, nor filibusta tend to be sold locally)--too prickly for the average house and not Winter hardy in zone 7 (without protection). All were labeled Mexican fans (W.robusta) but as I say, I suspect some may be filibusta, but I doubt I have any pure filifera. Filifera may well do fine for you in the Pacific NW (or Europe for that matter) where most areas are warm and relatively dry in the summer. I suspect that it's high temps combined with humidity that they might resent. (I would be interested in knowing if any healthy filiferas are grown in South Florida.) In any event, I have more than enough Washingtonias already as they just DON"T DIE--even after spear pull! :) By the way, another palm from an arid region has given me problems over the years. I've tried growing True Date (Phoenix dactylifera) a few times unsuccessfully. Have no problems with other Phoenix species. But I am giving this one another chance. Am growing the current one in a very coarse mix. Monsoon season has just started here so won't be able to post pics until Tuesday . But what I want to do, is to select my most robusta-like Washingtonia and the most filifera-like one in order to get better identifications from the experts out there.

I'm sorry, I haven't had chance to reply, I've been pretty busy lately. Which explains why I accidentally forgot to post better flower pics, Oops. Anyways here they are. What's different about this Euphorbia is the flowers, or bracts, each flower creates 2 more flowers, then more flowers sprout out of those until they become pretty long (you'll see). Also the flowers are spread out all over, Not just on the top and start green then turn pink or red/yellow. Here's the pics, I apologize, really hard to take photos of