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Re: Attractive seedpod

>Have an attractive dried arrangement that features a three-foot stem of
>black cup-shaped seedpods laddered on side branches. Seeds were in
>individual chambers surrounding the circumference of the cups. Did not
>note the leaf structure of the plant as I only noticed it when the cups
>became so evident. Any ideas what this weed might be?
>                              Merrill in Kalamazoo

My vote would be Abutilon theophrasti, also known as velvet-leaf or
pie-marker.  Does the top of the cup look like it would make sort of an
asterisk-like mark of pushed into some soft matter like clay?


Don Martinson
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
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