Comments on: Purpose-Challenged Plants

By: Sikat Ang Pinoy

Sikat Ang Pinoy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:52:26 +0000

It says it’s Coltsfoot (Petasites frigidus var. palmatus) ..the link above, I mean.

By: Sikat Ang Pinoy

Sikat Ang Pinoy — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 05:51:20 +0000

I got sucked into the hunt! It looks something like this but I’m still looking…
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3044/2752120719_6f22d5cac3.jpg

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:35:19 +0000

Oops, posted at the wrong link, not fleabane, that is the white flowers just posted.
Sorry
Shawn

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:34:05 +0000

It is daisy fleabane. Google it, the images are almost identical to your picture:) It is burned to keep away insects or can be made into a tea.

By: Jess

Jess — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:48:57 +0000

Not sure what the plant is, but I love this approach to gardening — I love a philosophy that embraces the usefulness even of things that appear to have no use.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:08:01 +0000

And I will say that I’ve recently found out that every week has a purpose, as every weed takes advantage of grass that isn’t thriving. Grass that’s not thriving means there’s some sort of deficiency, and each weed has a particular area that it can thrive in despite the soil deficiency – like clover flourishing in low nitrogen soils. Anyways, just a little tidbit on how to ‘use’ those weeds.

By: Lindsay

Lindsay — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:05:42 +0000

I’m going to vote Crane’s bill as well. We have tons of that around here, but is obviously easier to classify in the spring when it flowers. And, being a botanist by education, that’s my excuse for not knowing what it is. I took my classification class in the spring. But I’m pretty sure that’s it. (wild geraniums)

By: mikapixie

mikapixie — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:54:39 +0000

http://www.illinoiswildflowers.info/woodland/plants/wild_geranium.htm
What do you think? It looks pretty similar to me. I’m rooting for wild geraniums. It has the leaf structure for it.

By: Darci

Darci — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:32:09 +0000

All I can say is that it most certainly isn’t mint. The leaves are arranged around the stem wrong for it to be mint…Perhaps a “Thingius Maximus”? (If I don’t know something, I make up names. It may not be scientific, but it sure is fun.

By: Tomato Lady

Tomato Lady — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:19:26 +0000

Duchess–Good tip. They are whizzes at bug identification so I’m sure they know this one.