Hi all, just joined, am looking to find out if anyone can ID weeds from pictures ... then steps to post pictures.

Rich Kelly

we'll give it a shot.... if you cannot get the pic on here , you're welcome to email it to me... my email is in my profile, clik my name....

you'll need to shrink the picture to under 150 k...... use PAINT program or your own photo editor.... make a copy of the picture to shrink, so you don't ruin the original if you want to.. (like for the pretty flower pics!)... weeds, who cares!.. LOL!!...

to find out how much to reduce your pictures, right clik on the picture and choose 'properties'... read the size there.... many cameras take pics in high resolution and they come out over 2000k.... those need to come down a long way!.... first move is to put them in .JPG format and not in .bmp, which is HUGE!!....

when posting your picture, use the BLUE 'reply' button to get the full posting form....

you will have an email inviting you to Kodak Easyshare to the email in your profile. The first four are different angles of the same plant. the other 2 are of another a couple feet away.

Rich Kelly

Hey Rich...I'm in Wisconsin, too. Near Green Bay. Where are you? Hope we can help with your weed ID.

you've stumped me.... tho I'm relatively sure both are real plants.... I'll post the pics for you.....

here's the first one....

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the second one reminds me of a shrub that is a bloomer....not sure tho....

by the way... the pics in the album you sent are just about the right size to post here... so if you save them BACK to your files after uploading to the album, they'd be the right size in most cases.....

Here's a good place to find weed ID's. My link is set for the southern region but you can change to your region or use the dropdown list to look at various weeds.
http://www.weedalert.com/weed_listing/southern_weeds/wa_weed_listing.htm

I'll give you the same advice that was given me...let it grow, if it does something and you like that something, keep it! If you don't like where it is, then transplant it.

BTW, the 1st one looks more like a weed, but the 2nd one definitely looks like it'll be something. Good Luck!


Lea

That first one really seems to have a thick root or stem on it. Are these things that came up voluntarily in your garden? They might be wildflowers instead of weeds but I'm not sure. Maybe someone from up that way will recognize them.

I'd say the first pic is weeds, but yeah, the 2nd one is a keeper. Can't put my finger on just what it is yet, tho. Will keep thinking.

I am thinking that the second one looks like the black night shade......

Second one looks like it might be Forsythia, don't quote me on that but that is what my suckers (and I am not being funny that is what they are called) look like. I am still working on the first, give me a minute or so, doesn't look like a weed, it almost looks a bit like a form of a plant I am familiar with and have bought and planted.... will get back to you, dunno Gaura? The crown certainly looks like the crown of some of my Gaura.

Phin *hugs* haven't seen you for so long I agree with you, anything comes up in my garden and I don't know what it is it goes on "weed probation" I let it grow until it either blooms or does something ugly. Last year I had a "weed" which turned out to be an "Evening Primrose" a really nice native that was the host plant for some butterflies, so of course in my garden it stayed exactly where it was

Don't know about the second one, but, the first one looks like something we call "sun chokes". If I remember correctly they have an edible root, but also multiply like crazy. Plant one and you'll be digging them for the next five years. Hope I'm wrong for your sake. Jan Z5-NH

2nd one reminds me of a "red bud" or a crepe myrtle tree (different trees). I have one crepe that creeps out from under my deck every year...looks very similar. If it is, it is a keeper, but you may want to move it...my other two crepes are over 15 feet tall and bloom like crazy in late summer.

Except for color of the stalk the second one reminds me of lilac. the first one I have in my garden. I was pulling minature black eye susans and quit when I saw one that looked like black eye susan but leaf was a bit different. And there was that one. I thought it a weed, but then some wild flowers have been there. So I am waiting to see more from it. usually when it is alone, I wonder a bit more. I have pulled so many boughten plants where I didn't label it and had only planted that one. Monks hood, beebalm, gas plant, campanula. etc.

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The second one almost looks like a hydrangea with all the leaves on those woody branches, I wish I could see the buds better. Or maybe a rose of sharon, can't really make out the leaf either? Maybe??? Here's mine last year when it first started to leaf out.(hydrangea)

I think Britty might have the right idea.... gaura....check the leaves here...

http://www.tsflowers.com/html2/gaura.html