1 Rubus. Some kind of Blackberry/Rasberry/Dewberry 2 and 3 Something in the Mustard family - the common one this time of year is Barbarea vulgaris, Wintercress. Could easily be that. 4 Veratrum viride, False Hellebore 5 Another mustard. Could be the same as the others. Need more details to ID them. 6 Japanese Knotweed. Run! 7 Pachysandra. A commonly planted groundcover. 8 Evening Primrose, probably a weed. Oenothera sp 9 Not sure of that one. Some kind of Buttercup, maybe. Ranunculus sp. 10 A Viburnum. Linden Viburnum, maybe? Or Doublefile? Not that many have the big and little flowers together.

good mornin' Lime! Sounds like a cute little addition to your garden or field, but please be sure it isn't on your state restricted list. I posted last year with a description of a plant I wanted really REALLY badly, a very cherming thing that turned out to be on my state's restricted list! (Policeman's Helmet) FEDERAL LIST: http://invasives.uconn.edu/ipane/ipanespecies/fednox.htm SOME OF THE WEEDS IN MICHIGAN IN THE SEEDLING STAGE: http://web1.msue.msu.edu/msue/iac/e1363/e1363.htm Michigan Native Plants and Seeds Guide 2002/2003 Michigan Native Plant Producers Association http://www.nohlc.org/MNPPA.htm#Wildflowers I hope you find what you're looking for. GH- Here is a link that might be useful: Michigan Native Plant Producers Association

wisconsitom Oklahoma City has been replacing the (blah) import stuff and going all native in their plantings downtown, along medians and the landscaping around government buildings. I know people like flowers but here they are doing mass plantings of mostly native grasses with other plants as accents which makes me very happy. We are a prairie state so I think its a matter of state pride being shown and focused on along with watering issues and lower maintenance. They also added a lot of large life sized cast-bronze buffalo's and they place them among the grasses, like a mother with two calves or as singles. Isn't that cool? The grass is very decorative when massed planted in drifts and people seem to be liking it a lot down here. The new bridges and underpasses have locally native animals like Scissor Tail Flycatchers and Native American designs as reliefs in the concrete. I've been adding a lot more prairie grasses to my own property too. I want it to be predominantly grasses with flowering or textural plants as accents. I feel the grasses tie everything together and makes the flowers look better than when its all flowering plants. At the History Museum there was some beautiful solidago planted in front of a thicket of Three Leaf Sumacs. I googled it and found that they are a type called 'Fireworks', low growing with arching branches. I collected a few seeds. They also have a tall mass of Azure Salvia along with other natives like liatris, hibiscus, gaillardia, rudbeckia and several others but the grasses are the main event. They have massed in prairie grasses with a huge area of little bluestem, big bluestem and another of all Indian Grass planted in a swale, these all sway in the wind which we usually have lot of. There is a large hill of big rocks encrusted with 4 types of prairie grass (muhlenbergia riverchonnii, sideoats grama, blue grama and purple three awn) and the seeds literally glow with light in late afternoon. There is a huge planting all done in switchgrass with two smaller types around the perimeter with several buffalo in the midst of it. The bluestem is a mass of blue leaves that turns purple with seeds in fall. It looks good in winter too. I asked one of the guys who was working down there about the grasses etc and he said "Oh, you mean them weeds?". Oh well, there are some people who really will never 'get it'. Personally, I think its fabulous and its particularly stunning when seen at a distance from the highway. Grasses planted in mass just make a big bold statement.

Even here where it is native it is classed as a noxious weed in agriculture. It can kill cattle and horses. However it thrives in overgrazed pasture. Ragwort like the bare ground and horses have less choice of what to eat. If overgrazing is avoided the danger is vastly reduced.