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Offline olddogrib

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Name this weed!
« on: September 20, 2015, 01:52:00 PM »
Never seen this before but it has sprung up all around my archery target.  The tips are cottony like dandelion blossoms.  Looks like they'd make good wind detectors if stuffed in a film canister. What is it?
   
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Re: Name this weed!
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2015, 02:48:00 PM »
Looks like a Milkweed.

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Re: Name this weed!
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2015, 03:33:00 PM »
Can't see the pic
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Re: Name this weed!
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2015, 03:40:00 PM »
I thought milkweed had smooth leaf edges and I the seed pods are missing.
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Re: Name this weed!
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2015, 05:23:00 PM »
Not milk weed......but I have never seen it before.
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Re: Name this weed!
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2015, 05:25:00 PM »
can you take a few close-ups of the leaves, leaf arrangement, and flowers/blooms and is the stem round, square, or triangular in cross section

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Re: Name this weed!
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2015, 05:40:00 PM »
I call them Santa Clause plant because of all the fuzz that blows off of them this time of the year. It is a common weed here and grows in waste areas and along edged. I don't think it has any value.
 I don't know the common name or botanical name.
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Re: Name this weed!
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2015, 06:04:00 PM »
sow thistle ?

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Re: Name this weed!
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2015, 06:09:00 PM »
Smooth sow thistle-can"t see the leaves very well-may be Prickly sow thistle-Hap

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Re: Name this weed!
« Reply #9 on: September 20, 2015, 06:16:00 PM »
Can't tell from the pic but I would say one thistle or another.  Perhaps a nettle also.

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« Reply #10 on: September 21, 2015, 10:58:00 AM »
Not sure what it is but we have them in Michigan.  They grow in disturbed soil fairly quickly.
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Re: Name this weed!
« Reply #11 on: September 21, 2015, 11:19:00 AM »
Pilewort

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« Reply #12 on: September 21, 2015, 11:39:00 AM »
I would guess it's in the thistle family.

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« Reply #13 on: September 21, 2015, 11:41:00 AM »
Grab all the little fuzzy seeds and use them for wind checkers.
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Re: Name this weed!
« Reply #14 on: September 21, 2015, 06:54:00 PM »
Use them for wind checkers AFTER you remove the seed from the fuzz!
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Re: Name this weed!
« Reply #15 on: September 22, 2015, 02:45:00 PM »
Yes the fluffy things with the seed is how it transplants itself. Don't use them with the seed attached or you will be planting weeds everywhere.Milk weed does that too but is fairly easy to remove the seed.

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Re: Name this weed!
« Reply #16 on: September 23, 2015, 04:30:00 PM »
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Looks like a Milkweed.
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Re: Name this weed!
« Reply #17 on: September 23, 2015, 06:19:00 PM »
I agree with Ron W., " not milk weed "
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Re: Name this weed!
« Reply #18 on: September 23, 2015, 07:21:00 PM »
You may have discovered a new species. If you did it is customary to name it after the person who discovered it. So I guess we can call it "Old Dog".
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Re: Name this weed!
« Reply #19 on: September 23, 2015, 08:16:00 PM »
looks like Sow thistle (for sure a thistle) Did it have yellow or purple flowers? yellow them for sure sow, if purple could be some others.
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