Hi - I have a patch of this unidentified plant (image link below) growing in a flower bed - we bougth the home so I don't know if it was planted there or not. Can someone help with an ID? thanks
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18 years ago
Hi - I have a patch of this unidentified plant (image link below) growing in a flower bed - we bougth the home so I don't know if it was planted there or not. Can someone help with an ID? thanks
Its a nasty invasive weed masquerading as an aromatic ornamental herb, Artemisia vulgaris, a.k.a. "mugwort" or "wormwood".
The leaves look quite similair, but I can't find a picture of Artemisia vulgaris with the small starts along the main branch like this has; If someone else wouldn't mind weighing in before I pull them all up I'd appreciate it!
from typical mums (paler and more incised). Taller and a bit ganglier. (The tag should be out in the garage, but the garage was 'cleaned' since and I'm not sure I could find it.
Is the foliage scented?
What an unappreciative jerk. Who are you to question?
The link I gave you had hundreds of pix. Look again, dummy.
The "little stubble" really isn't significant for identification.
You didn't look very hard. Here's a close-up of a leafy stem showing the axillary leaflets. Happy now? As the plant matures they elongate into branches.
For ideal identification, the plant should be in bloom and that would remove any doubt.
Several people have asked you if the plant is aromatic and you still have not answered.
Oh yeah? Sit on it, Potsy!!!
I shoud also add that it has not flowered yet so I don't know if it will this year and what colours and shapes it will produce!!
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It's a Cleome or spider flower. a lovely annual plant which produces lovely spikey usually pink flowers that are scented. Is a nice 'weed' to come up and well worth keeping.
(oh, and don't let anyone try to tell you it's cannibis :-D)
'Cleome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia'
WOW ! Thankyou very much !! - I've had several people puzzled over this plant - It certainly looks at interesting flower once it starts!
Cannabis was mentioned a few times !! - I was ready to dig it up... well.. maybe ;-) he he
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I had a young teen trying to tell me I was growing pot when he saw my Cleome. It was funny, and I had a helluva time convincing him he was wrong. Jeez, I could have had cops crawling all over the place if he'd started telling people I was growing weed. I love cleome, it needs no special treatment and mine often reseeds itself, altho I would prefer it do it in the garden and not in the grass. I was transplanting little seedlings with a spoon from the grass into the garden. Nan in DE
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