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This is the second installment in an effort to put a name to the “weeds” in my yard. I took several pictures this summer and am trying to identify them one at a time.
I’m not sure we ever satisfactorily identified the first of the P-CP’s, but I had a lot of fun anyway.
I thought we’d take a whack at another of these yard critters and see if we can put a definitive name to it this time. (I promise to avail myself of the folks at Dave’s Garden if all else fails).
I think this is going to be an easy one. I know I feel like I should know its name already. It makes me nostalgic for warmer weather:
Ready, set, . . . IDENTIFY!
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Are they little? Because then they might be Fleabane.
http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/erigeronphil.html
Such a cute little wildflower! ^_^
Daisy Fleabane
http://www.huntington.edu/thornhill/checklist/commonwildflowers.htm
I can’t see the leaves to tell for sure, but the flower looks like some variety of wild aster.
Is it fleabane?
You need to be able to see the leaves and structure, not just the flowers on this. More photos?
They look like lawn daisies to me – Bellis perennis – although the only ones growing in my garden grow in the driveway, nowhere near a lawn. If so, they are not completely purposeless: http://www.pfaf.org/database/plants.php?Bellis+perennis
The flowers look like chamomile, but I agree with Kitty that we need more parts of the plant visible to make a good identification. Also something to help give scale. Chamomile flowers are little, but there are plants with similar but larger flowers (various mums pop to mind).
My first thought is wild aster, we have tons of it. A quick look at the leaves would confirm.
And, people pay money for asters, so I’d keep it!
I agree, , but it looks too weird, to be a Chamomile. If it was, You would probably already made a tea out of it and not post it as a weed right
It looks like Daisy Fleabane, but still not sure
http://www.huntington.edu/thornhill/images/wildlifephotos/daisyfleabane.jpg
Are the leaves as in this picture?
http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/galleries/erigeronphil.html
Have Fun identifying Your Weed hehe,
Will
Thank you, everybody! Although I don’t have a clear photo (or memory) of the way the leaves join the stem, I think it is Daisy Fleabane. I will re-check in the Spring to be sure it isn’t Common Fleabane. Now I can give it the respect it deserves by calling it by name. Thank you again!
Definately in the aster family (which fleabane is also a part of). Not enough of the plant to tell more, but I agree on a fleabane of some sort.
yup=fleabane
Wow, and they are “weeds” only in your lawn? Ornamental weeds then. They flowers are so beautiful and so delicate…not much like the garden foe!
HA! I HAVE THAT TOO AND THOUGHT IT WAS FEVERFEW. wow, this is so great to find out!
I work as a florist and we use a flower like this for filler flower in arrangements. Ours is called monte’ casino. It also comes in lavender.
It’s definitely *not* chamomile or feverfew! The petals are quite different. My guess would have been fleabane as well. Fleabane is also a form of wild aster (it’s in the Asteraceae family).
The posters who said fleabane and the ones who said aster are right. Fleabane and aster are part of the same family. This flower is known commonly as aster in my area, and as daisy fleabane in other areas. It can aslo be found less commonly in the wild in a light purple color and a light blue color.