Can you help me name my weeds and not so weeds?

18 years ago

Here is a link to my Ofotos album.

http://www.kodakgallery.com/ShareLandingSignin.jsp?Uc=13n5iz03.bzd8dbar&Uy=t1rgnc&Upost_signin=BrowsePhotos.jsp%3FshowSlide%3Dtrue&Ux=0

I know that picture #4 and #27 are Jack in the Pulpit. There are many. They are keepers.

I think that #13 is a Trillium. I have a few.

#16 is a young Shagbark Hickory.

I think #10 and 14 are possibly Solomon's Seal.

#9 and 12 look like some kind of Viburnum.

The property is old. It was pasture land in the early/mid 1800s to early 1900, at least.

Can you help me name the rest and correct me if I'm wrong on what I've named so far? Many thanks!

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chuckr30
18 years ago
#13: trillium.

#15: probably trillium. Trilliums without flowers look just like young jack-in-the-pulpit, but I don't recall the trick to differentiating the two. I think JITP has more/darker color on the stems.

#18: touch-me-not, impatiens spp. They prefer damp areas.

#21: young trilliums, may not bloom this year.

#31: looks like some kind of squash, pumpkin, or zucchini.

#33: wild violet
bomber
Original Author
18 years ago
Here is what I think I have identified from all contributions so far:

1. Bitter dock
2. Sharp leaved Aster (whorled wood aster)
3. Garlic Mustard - take it away
4. Jack in the Pulpit (we have many, many!)
5. Hayscented fern
6. Buckthorn (not sure it is a choke cherry)
7. Honeysuckle
8. Mayflower (Canada)
9. Arrow wood Viburnum
1. False Solomon Seal
2. Gray Dogwood
3. Arrow wood Viburnum (same as #9 but still very low to ground)
4. Trillium
5. False Solomon Seal
6. Trillium or Jack in the Pulpit
7. Shagbark Hickory sapling
8. Suggestions - Angelica, Avens, Toothwort, Dutchmans Breeches - doesn't really look like any of those
9. Possibilities - Gold thread (? three leaves and this is four) or Partridge Berry or Wintergreen or Pyrola - plant is very, very low to the ground
10. Sensitive Fern
11. The picture is of a fern unfolding. Hard to see. I'll wait to see what it becomes.
12. Trillium or oak seedlings
13. Another type of Fern
14. Another Fern - I'll use the Fern website that was provided.
15. Bulbet Fern
16. Columbine or Meadow Rue
17. ??
18. Jack in the Pulpit
19. Skunk cabbage??
20. Queen Anne's lace
21. ??
22. Squash or pumpkin or watermelon(makes sense since the deer ate all the watermelon plants I had outside the fence)
23. Hnoeysuckle or Fetterbush?
24. Violets
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1. Geum?
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#10 and 14 appear to be real Solomon Seal with the flowers on the underside
17 - need to give it more time to determine what it is.
#21 - went through the woods again. No doubt this is Trillium. Lots of it too. The leaf patterns for the Trillium and Jack in the Pulpit are very similar. The difference appears to be a vein that runs around the perimeter of the Jack.
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