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bush, starts out with reddish leaves when first comes up.

5 years ago

plants a few bushes years ago and now have a 15' plot of them. so spread from underground roots. gets about 3-4 feet high. Attractive bush and leaves, cant remember the flowers on top. Can post more mature plant later in season.

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floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK

5 years ago

Can you provide some more pictures from further away? I can't see the habit of the plant. At the moment it looks horribly like Japanese Knotweed but the leaves seem smaller than is typical and that usually grows taller than 4 feet. So it could be dwarf JK.

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Kaillean (zone 8, Vancouver)
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
Not an ideal photo. Looks like salal (gaultheria shallon). Where are you?
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floral_uk z.8/9 SW UK
5 years ago
OP refers to 'when it first comes up'. Isn't Gaultheria shallon an evergreen sub shrub?

We need more pix.
Embothrium
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
Agree it is some kind of knot-weed (Polygonum).

Salal grows 3-8 ft tall and is most definitely woody, with the typical hard stems of a Heath Family plant.
Kaillean (zone 8, Vancouver)
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
I understood “first comes up” to mean areas where it’s spreading to rather than spring emergence. Would be helpful to know location.

Knotweed around here gets much much taller than 3’ and stems are thicker and straighter. Leaves are also larger on knotweed in my experience and softer, thinner.

Salal in my wooded ravine rarely gets taller than 3’ though I’ve seen taller in more open areas. Leaves are thicker and waxier.

OP, have you ever noticed berries?

She also said she planted them. Do people deliberately plant knotweed? Yikes. We have crews going through our ravine annually to eradicate.
Lisa (z5A, SE WI)
5 years ago
Japanese knotweed, compact variety. I have this, it took me ages to figure out why mine looked so similar to the knotweed pictures, but still too different.
Embothrium
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
If you enlarge the picture it is clearly a knot-weed. There are many kinds in addition to the Bohemian knot-weed that is likely to be seen as a weed near Vancouver. (With them all kept together in Polygonum there is about 150 species. Otherwise Fallopia for instance still ends up with 12, even with Polygonum split up into several genera). Here are photos of the specific identification that has been suggested:

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=fallopia+japonica+compacta&FORM=HDRSC2
sue
Original Author
5 years ago
Thanks for everyones input. I don't remember actually planting it. I'll look into it more. I guess I'll get the roundup out, but its growing in between some of my hostas....guess I'll get them out first. Its actually a rather attractive plant, but getting way too big for this area.
sue
Original Author
5 years ago
I don't have it anywhere else on my farm, so that's why I thought maybe I planted it eons ago and don't remember.
Embothrium
5 years ago
last modified: 5 years ago
I'll get them out first

You don't want to be having a lot of drift blowing around when you use glyphosate anyway. If you are using a tank sprayer you can outfit the nozzle with the upper half of a used bleach bottle to prevent sideways spray drift. Otherwise if nothing else use a piece of cardboard to shield nearby plants you want to keep healthy when spraying.

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