What is this growing in my garden? SE PA USA
This is posted also under "weeds" here"
http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/3054803/what-is-this-growing-in-my-gardenBut I saw this thread in someone else's responses, hope its OK to double post and cross reference.
I need help identifying this plant in my garden. I checked all my
seed packets from last year, I don't recognize it. I checked all the
weed identification sites I could find, the closest I could come was
Heal All. But I don' thin so Lucy...
It was growing when the snow receded in SE PA (my location) in the sunny part of the garden bed.
When I figured out it was long stems I supported it with stakes. It would like to lie down.
Anyone?
Thank you in advance.
Comments (16)
rachelz3
8 years agoI can't find a match and on this page:
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com/Plant_Families/Solanaceae.htm
I get:
Key Words: Alternate leaves. Flower parts in fives with united petals and a two-celled ovary.
I can't even see how it would flower.
Then today I saw some leaves on the side, lower, that looked like this:
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Tiffany, purpleinopp Z8b Opp, AL
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8 years agoWhen I saw that picture of the nightshade plant with the two kinds of leaves, and looked at the leaf I had taken from the plant that sold me on nightshade. Also all three forums came to the same conclusion.
I thought about keeping it, it's pretty and what I read is that its not so deadly as make-you-sick-ly. I also love a survivor, one of my rules for my garden is they have to demonstrate the will to survive... I like that it's native, nightshade can be edible, if you really know what you're doing, I even found a gardener who specializes in poison plants
[url=http://www.thepoisongarden.co.uk/atoz/atropa_belladonna.htm]Atropa Belladonna, deadly nightshade - THE POISON GARDEN website[/url]
and I would love to let it flower just to confirm it is nightshade
but
I have a 7 year old, there's more young kids and babies in our community, the neighbor just over the other fence you see has toddler grandchildren who visit, and there's lots of little dogs around here... I am growing my edibles in the same spot (strawberries, sage, basil) I just can't risk a pretty plant with attractive berries that is toxic in every way, could even harm by brushing against it... it for my curiousity.
And... this is my best chance to actually get rid of it, before it flowers. I read up on how to kill it and - it aint easy. Several times it said "this could take years". The weed killer is so potent as to destroy anything near it, and heaven knows what for my edibles... and still takes years:
[url=http://homeguides.sfgate.com/eradicate-nightshade-75651.html]How to Eradicate Nightshade | Home Guides | SF Gate[/url]
So this morning after I soaked it and donned my gloves and started to pull it out of the ground, I felt validated to see those roots come from the other side of my fence. I did not plant this, the roots are what were described for Nightshade... walks like a duck.
I threw it into the bushes, partially because I hadn't really thought about what I was going to do with it once it was out, it came out so easily on the first try. I got all the roots on my side of the fence and about 6 inches into the other side of the fence. It will probably try to come back.
And then I also noticed this little plant growing amidst my morning glories. I had noticed it over the last couple days, how it looked different and grew faster, but I thought it was a moonflower (Ipomoea) or a hyacinth bean.
I did plant moonflowers and hyacinth beans. I collected the seeds from last year and tossed them all back in a couple weeks ago. The seeds were all together, and I don't know if I got any moonflowers and I only had like 7 hyancinth bean seeds.
So... anyone know if this sprout is nightshade, moonflower or hyacinth bean?
Many thanks!
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8 years agoWow that's good to know about the sap, I am allergic to poison ivy and VERY allergic to mangos, unfortunately. It's latex? That may also explain my possible allergic to latex, something that happens sometimes when I have a small surgery.
I didn't actually smell the nightshade, and I didn't try. I have a pretty sensitive nose but it didn't come to me when I pulled it and I didn't want to press my luck by sticking my nose near it on purpose.
Nightshade again. I pulled the sprout out from behind the netting and
saw this:
The telltale little wing at the base of the leaf. I was
thinking that it was probably growing so fast like the other one because
it's roots were established on the other side of the fence. When I
pulled it out (not as easy, complete or satisfying as the big one) sure enough the
roots came from the other side of the fence.
I've been staring at these pictures so long I think I can even recognize the vein pattern, it has like little segmented balloons that almost reach the end.
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