Carol, I’m not convinced that’s it. The leaves aren’t the same. The tulip tree leaves are more pointy whereas my ‘weed’ is lobed(?).

Also, this thing stays the same size every year (gets a max height of about 3ft) and I’ve never seen a flower on it. No branches either. It dies down in winter.

its strange looking (to me) and I was curious enough to identify it.

thanks!

It is Liriodendron tulipifera. The leaves are quite variable. The visible stem is more than a year old. Perhaps it's getting cut back every year?

No, we don’t cut it back. We’ve never touched it. If we did we would have yanked it out roots and all.?I’ve always wonder what it was.

ill keep an eye on it.

Well something's chopped it off. You can see where this year's growth has started from. Deer? Rabbits? Errant gardeners?

Lol... I just went and climbed over ac units and pool pumps to get to the other side. And, guess what. It was cut with loppers at some point. So I guess we have tulip tree!

Now, how to get it out and possibly transplant? The roots go under the enclosure wall.

Thanks guys!

I can understand wanting one of this kind of tree but that one is not off to an attractive start.

Ahem....

I honestly don't think it's worth trying to transplant. It'll never make a good tree having been cut back like that.

Okie dokie... No transplanting. I feel bad for the tree :(

Yank it out. If you have room for an 80-foot plus tree with massive trunk and dropping limbs, seeds, go for it!

It is a beautiful flowering native tree, but in a bad place. They are the tallest of our eastern hardwoods - granted it takes a long time to get that big. Their seeds scatter with the wind so its parent tree is most likely upwind from you.

Yes, a lovely tree, but definitely in the wrong place...unless you want to move your house to spare the tree, lol. I have them in my woods that must be at LEAST 85 to 90 feet tall.

I do have a place to move the tree. Inlaws have property in the country. Plenty of room for this size tree. But, because it was cut off...???

Eould be a job to remove it from its current spot though but I think it is doable.

Having been cut off it won't make a well shaped single trunked specimen. You could experiment with a multi trunked tree although I be never seen a tulip tree treated in that way. But since at least one has self sown in your garden there could be others lurking.