Re: Plant ID - Pamper or Pull?
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: Re: Plant ID - Pamper or Pull?
- From: P* E*
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1998 23:06:45 -0500
Thanks for checking out my mystery plant. I first thought it was the
morning glory but there is no picture of how the leaves look on the
stems and I didn't have any luck finding another picture on the web. I
missed the Yellow Rocket my first visit and there are some similarities
to it as well.
The terminal leaf looks almost exactly like an Ivy-leaved Morning Glory
(Ipomea hederacea) http://www.rce.rutgers.edu/weeddocuments/MGLORY.HTM
but there is only a picture of a single leaf.
The stems and tiny leaves on the stem, however, very closely resembles
the Yellow Rocket (Barbarea vulgaris)
http://www.rce.rutgers.edu/weeddocuments/YROCKET.HTM including the
reddish stems but my leaves are fuzzy on the front.
Yellow rocket, Barbarea vulgaris (BARVU) is a yellow
flowered biennial mustard. It is a weed of alfalfa and
small grains as well as newly seeded turf areas. It is a
prolific seeder and in the spring large fields turn yellow
with its flowers.
My monster is still up at http://home.unicom.net/~peggy/plant.jpg
It only has basil foliage hugging the ground at this point--no stalks
or flowers.
I fertilize with alfalfa meal pellets so it might have hitchiked a ride
that way. Something that can outcompete alfalfa, survives the
pelletizing process, and has the ability to seed prolifically sounds a
little scary.
Letting it flower sounds a bit risky--the thing problably sets seed 5
seconds after the flower opens. :)
At 10:15 AM -0500 11/21/98, Meum71@aol.com wrote:
> I have been up to late.
>
> it should be spelled GEUM
> here is a picture of the flower-- they do not have a pict of the
>basil leaves.
> <A
>HREF="http://district.gresham.k12.or.us/ghs/nature/plants/5petal/rose/aven.
> ht
>m">http://district.gresham.k12.or.us/ghs/nature/plants/5petal/rose/aven.htm
> </
>A>
>
> More but still not a good pict of basil leaves.
> <A HREF="http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/illus_query?table=flowers&null-
> max-max=10&eq-char-latin_name=Geum+macrophyllum">
> http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/illus_query?table=flowers&null-max-
> max=10&eq-char-latin_name=Geum+macrophyllum</A>
>
> Notice the small leaflets on the stems-the picture that she posted was from a
> plant that just had a rosette of leaves and no flowering stems. Thus the
> morphological features are a little different. i wish i could find a picture
> with the basal leaves!!
> <A HREF="http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/imgs/512x768/6068_1631/1522/0036.jpeg">
> http://elib.cs.berkeley.edu/imgs/512x768/6068_1631/1522/0036.jpeg</A>
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Peggy Enes (peggy@unicom.net) Zone 5/6 NE KS AHS Heat Zone 7
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