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What are these? How do I get rid of them?

jessecookedesign

5 years ago

last modified: 5 years ago

We just moved into this house in October and are experiencing our first summer in the new place. Off to the left in these photos you'll see that about 120+ sqft of our yard is taken over by these "bushes" (for lack of a better term right now).

They stand, at the tallest, about 4.5 ft high.

You'll notice that in one area we dug some of them up, roots and all. We were going to continue this until our neighbor said they did the same thing 3 years ago and they've all grown back!

Any ideas on what these are and how to deal with them would be great!

If helpful to identify: we live in Northern Minnesota.

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miss lindsey (She/Her)

5 years ago

Post a closer picture of the foliage and any flowers. :)

You could also take a sample to the dnr; wear gloves in case it's noxious!

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Angel 18432
5 years ago
From afar it looks like some kind of fern
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miss lindsey (She/Her)
5 years ago
My first thought was boysenberry.

But impossible to tell from afar.
Beverly Tiding
5 years ago
Close up picture please of part of individual plant
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Patricia Colwell Consulting
5 years ago
Take a piece to your garden center they will tell you what it is and how to get rid of it.
decoenthusiaste
5 years ago
Can't ID without closeups but they look like wild carrots to me. If they don't have woody stems you can kill them with a spray made of 1 gallon white vinegar, 2 cups Epsom salts and 1/4 cup liquid dish soap. Spray it on and they will die. I have just killed all the poison ivy and another invasive plant in my yard with this mixture.
floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
5 years ago
All I can see is that they have a pinnate leaf. So not Boysenberry and definitely not Daucus carota. Possible candidates are Sumac, Ailanthus and Aruncus. If you can take closer pictures and post either here, or better still on the Name That Plant Forum, you'll get an id in short order. Then you can decide what to do with it. If it is not an invasive alien species I would think long and hard about what you'd put there instead if you choose to eradicate. At present it is doing n efficient job of ground cover.
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I was thinking maybe low grow sumac. Had it once, and the spread was similar.

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