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This is how it looks if viewed very closely, the yellow weed which we see everywhere in spring, and try what not to get rid of it. A closeup reveals the hidden beauty inside.
An invasive weed, but fortunately delicious. It is nice to know that we are improving the environment by pulling this up, as well as improving our sandwiches by adding the small leaves.
I didn't even get to the very bottom of it...it snapped before I could get it...stupid defense mechanism.
Crofton weed is native to Mexico presently serious weed in Australia, New Zealand, India, Thailand, Jamica, Fiji, South Africa, China and United States.
Crofton weed is a shrubby perennial with a woody rootstock and numerous upright stems. It usually grows 1-2 meters tall. Young drooping stems are soft and establish roots where they touch the ground. The leaves are bright green, diamondl shaped, 50-70 mm long, 25-50 mm broad with the edges toothed and arranged in opposite pairs along the stem. Stems are usually purple and are covered stalked sticky hairs. Stem branch in opposite pairs. Flowers are white, in small, dense heads at the ends of the branches. Seeds are slender, 2 mm long, almost black with fine white hairs at the tip. Mature crofton weed plant can produce between 10000 and 100000 seeds per year.Seeds very light (25000 seeds/g) are highly viable and disperse by wind, water, animals and humans
What weed is this? As you can see it's ruining my lawn :o(
It's Couch-weed! Cheers Dad!
Pronounced cooch-weed.
When I see this amazing weed it makes me wonder why we would kill something so beautiful just because we call it a weed.
'by any other name would smell as sweet...'
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"The popular definition of a weed is 'a plant in the wrong place', which makes almost everything eligible, from an oak in a conifer woodlot to an orchid on the tennis court. For three or four centuries landscape painters agreed, and exiled lowly vegetation to the margins – usually, quite literally, to the lower foreground margin. Meandering through collections of early landscapes, you notice an undifferentiated frieze of wildings somewhere at the bottom of your field of vision – much where they would be on a real walk. They’re small, creeping, insignificant, wild nature as cosmetic afterthought. Ralph Waldo Emerson generously suggested that a weed is not so much a plant in the wrong place as 'a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered'. Perhaps, in the desolation we are making of the planet, the weed’s moment has arrived."
From: "The Lowly Weed Has Its Day" by Richard Mabey in "Tate Etc.", May 2011