Mia,

The one in the first two photos with the little yellow bell-shaped flowers looks so familiar, but I cannot figure out why. I bet it will come to me today while I am out working in the garden, and then I'll come back inside and tell you what I think it is. Ditto for the ferny thing with yellow flowers. It doesn't grow here at our house, but something about it seems familiar and I am pretty sure it is a weed. (Don't pull it out yet, though, because someone might know what it is and it could be a desirable weed.)

The one that's growing in the pea gravel near the greenhouse is a weed. I don't know the name of it, but it is very prolific. After we rototilled our big garden the first year, that stuff came up like mad for months (no, make that years). I had to pull them out for ages and ages. It probably was 10 years before I felt like they were "gone". Now, every year maybe 2 or 4 or 6 sprout and I promptly yank them.

My best guess on the little heart-shaped leaves is that they are some form of wild morning glory. I have several different kinds here, including bindweed, and I yank out every one of them that I see. Some have leaves like the ones in your photo, others have leaves in a different shape, but none of them is allowed in or near my garden. They make a billion seeds each and if you let one grow and go to seed, you'll have a billion new ones next year. The first year I had a wild morning glory sprout in my garden that did not resemble bindweed, I thought "Oh, how pretty" and let it grow, flower (the flowers were a lot smaller than normal morning glories but much smaller). That was a mistake. It had to have been 5 or 6 years ago, and I still yank out its seedlings in the garden. In fact, I was pulling some of them yesterday after I found them sprouting and growing under taller desirable plants.

The heart-shaped leaf looks familiar. I think it might be velvetleaf or one of its family members. At first I thought it was velvetleaf, but the more I looked at the leaf shape, the more I talked myself out of thinking that. The leaves don't look quite right for the velvetleaf weeds I find here, but it also is possible there are other velvetleaf plants with foliage more like that in your photo.

With the hackberries, those little things on the foliage are galls. There are different galls that are found on hackberries, but to me they all look pretty similar. We had a hackberry-infested chainlink fence line in Fort Worth and it was a mess to "fix" because the previous oweners and the adjacent neighbors had let the trees grow in the fence to the point that parts of the fence were enclosed within tree trunks---the trunks had grown right over/around the hackberries. Every one of those trees had galls.

Dawn

Here is a link that might be useful: Hackberry Gall info

Hi Dawn,
I hope to be able to help with a few of your ids.
The first is some form of physalis (gooseberry)there are several species. The weed by your greenhouse is some form of Euphorbia (possibly I want to say dentata) but again several species. the one by the fouro'clocks is probably Bindweed - Ipomoea sp. Hope this helps. Rick

The first two may be an Abutilon weedy species. Nodding flowers led to the common name of Chinese Lanterns.

The second two are a Bidens species - aka Sticktights. A usually unwanted plant in the garden.

The fifth photo is a weed, Euphorbia dentata.

Next (large, heart-shaped leaf), looks like Paulownia to me - not a vine, but a tree, and very invsive.

Growths on the Hackberry leaves are gall psyllids. May eventually cause leaf drop, but not known to harm the tree, though unsightly.

Hope this helps some.

Susan

I agree with Rick on the ones he identified and with Dawn about wild Morning Glory. We fight the pale blue one in the asparagus all summer; it comes up through 3 inches of chip mulch. Physalis is aka Japanese Lantern and is related to Tomatillo, but weedy. She's right about the galls on hackberry. The ferny plant with the little yellow flowers may be Coreopsis or Bidens; both selfseed like crazy. I pull them too. I don't know about the big heartleaved plant but I have seen resprouts of redbud (sprouts that come up from established roots after the plant has been cut back) look very vinelike and twist up through fences. Not sure though, but I don't think it is velvet leaf because the leaves don't look fuzzy. I don't think any of these are desirable plants except maybe the Redbud, if it is Redbud, and here they are also weeds that get pulled out by the hundreds every year. And if it is Redbud in a fence, it will need to be removed anyway.

Aha! As soon as Susan said bidens, I knew where I'd seen it and why it looked familiar. That stuff came up near the dog yard a couple of years ago, in an area where the dogs grow their own gourds on the fence (because I once gave them old decorative gourds to play with, and they scattered seed everywhere, and it happens every year now). I left it alone figuring it looked kinda pretty and the dogs wouldn't care. Of course, it self-seeded everywhere, but now when it comes up I pull it out. I've only seen one this year (yesterday, in fact) and pulled it up as soon as I saw in.

I love redbuds, but they self-seed like mad, so I am careful to leave them out in the woodland and not plant one up close to the house. Even at that, I have redbuds pop up in all my flower beds and in the veggie garden all the time because either the wind or the birds distribute their seed. They are pretty while in bloom, but often don't look great the rest of the year because their foliage is prone to leaf spot diseaes and often their leaves yellow in the heat. So, if you have a redbud sprout, be sure you actually want it because if you keep it, you'll have new sprouts every year.

Thank you everyone for your quick responses! Please excuse my veeeerrrryyy slow follow up. I have googled and cross referenced your suggestions and here's where I'm at now:
1. Found some small husks beginning to form. For curiosity's sake, will leave at least some of these plants to see if a fruit forms within the husk. If it does, we'll call it gooseberry/ground cherry, and if it doesn't, we'll call it Chinese Lantern.
2. Argh, those darn sticktights! This is the dang thing that stuck to me all winter when I went out into the yard and I'd posted about it before. It will be pulled!
3. Pulling! of course, it's colonized a 12 x 20 foot area of pea gravel now. Gah.
4. Pulling. It's begun putting out teensy white morning glory-esque flowers over the last day or two.
5. Reserving judgement. Could definitely be the paulownia/princess tree.
6. Ah, good to know. Usually we'd consider hackberry a weed tree since it's mostly volunteered everywhere, but once you let it become a 20-30 foot tree (as we have seen at two of our houses), it becomes a pretty important element.

Thank you again, all!