I know it's not a rose, I have a few wild rose bushes in my yard I pay no attention to. I found a plant leaf guide, since no one attempted to name mine, I thought I would help describe it, so anyone who at least read of a plant similar, they would mention it. It is also similar to a European Ash tree, but I know it's some kind of weed, but the only leaf I could find similar is the ones I mentioned above. That is very useful to know, I'm leaving these links, so if anyone wants to research on the internet what they have, they will have a way to describe it. I found some good pictures near what I have by the description alone in a search. http://www.botanical-online.com/hojastiposangles.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Leaf_morphology.svg Just humor me, I'm not trying to get scientific! LOL! I'm just curious why two of these plants perfectly spaced popped up where nothing but marigolds were planted. It's the prettiest weed I've ever seen. I can vouch for this, for the past two years, I've never seen any weed in this garden that looked like this especially where it's growing. What made me think of a rose is the strength of the thin twigs on it, plus since I borrowed leaves from my dad's yard, there is rose of Sharon bush growing in it, and maybe the seeds took and grew.

It would help to see a picture of the entire plant or, at the least, a description of the entire plant. The 6th (I think) image -- darkish leaves -- may be a flowering crabapple. And consider posting in the Name that Plant Forum http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/namegal/ Here is a link that might be useful: images

Thank you all for the help identifying this. I'm thinking I'm going to try to get rid of it - would garden experts agree that this is one I shouldn't feel bad about getting rid of? FataMorgana- when you said the early leaves don't always look like mature leaves.... Any chance that my giant collection of "little spreaders" that is popping up with on pairs of opposed leaves is just a pre-woody-vine version of this? Thank you all again for the help- one down five hundred to go! :-)

He is wrong. The PD fungus merely infects the developing drupelets of the fruits - it's not disseminated throughout the plant. Control - if you can achieve it - is accomplished by removing and disposing of affected fruits, and possibly by spraying with a fungicide. But... if you desire mulberry fruits, you could remove that tree and replace with a pure M.rubra, which seems to be less affected, if not immune, to infection with this particular fungal agent. PD is worse some years than others, but once it appears, it's usually there to stay. Imagine trying to find, remove and dispose of all the affected fruits on a tree 30 ft tall and 40 ft wide... I just can't get 'em all.