Help Identify These Plants

[Iron Woode]

They are about 6' tall.

 

[BurnItDwn]

I believe those are called "Flowers"

 

[sandorski]

They kinda look like something called Milk Thistle. Hmm, Google disagrees. Looks familiar to me, but can't place a name on it.

How do they smell?

Might be this. Locally called Hogweed, but also called Cow Parsnip.

 

[mopardude87]

Meh kinda lazy,i would ask my FB group we dabble in this stuff. Mainly herbs and various remedy stuff though. Nothing like i typically see used so meh, its prob a type of weed or some obscure plant like sandorski mentioned. Nothing that will benefit most, at least from what i have seen in the groups.

Edit: there is homes and gardens section for this btw, not being rude but helpful as someone there may conclude this easier then in here.

 

[sdifox]

This?

Heracleum mantegazzianum - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Hopefully not..

Weiterleitungshinweis

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

They are about 6' tall.

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If there's a purple dot in the middle of those flower clusters, it's Queen Anne's Lace, completely harmless.

If not, it's probably giant hogweed, and is also completely harmless unless you start screwing around with it, then the sun melts your skin. Use gloves and treat that shit like it's radioactive.

 

[Iron Woode]

I know it's not Giant Hogweed. I have seen that up close before.

I am thinking it might be related to them, though. The leaves are small compared to most member of the family.

I know it's not queen Anne's Lace.

The flowers have a nice sweet scent with out being over powering.

 

[Iron Woode]

I also found some Chokecherry:

 

[zinfamous]

This?

Heracleum mantegazzianum - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

Hopefully not..

Weiterleitungshinweis

yeah, I was also thinking hogweed.

yikes if so....

 

[lxskllr]

I've only seen hogweed in pictures, and maybe once from the window of my truck, but I think it's bushier, with larger "tufts" of flowers.

 

[Muse]

Were it me, here, I would take some to the monthly free plant pathology clinic at local university's botanical gardens. The specialist hosting might have a take on it and if not, probably would have suggestion(s). I did that with some stuff I was finding in my yard... the determination was that it wasn't a plant at all that was accumulating in the leaf liter. I decided it was the lining of my neighbor's heating ducts.

 

[Captante]

Triffids ?


Seriously I used to see whatever they are all the time mixed in with Goldenrod in the fields of Westchester County NY where I grew up in summer ... milkweed is the name that popped into my head but maybe not?

 

[Iron Woode]

Triffids ?


Seriously I used to see whatever they are all the time mixed in with Goldenrod in the fields of Westchester County NY where I grew up in summer ... milkweed is the name that popped into my head but maybe not?

no, it's not milkweed. Those are cool plants.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

milkweed is the name that popped into my head but maybe not?

Nah milkweed is a very stalky, large, broad-leafed plant. I have that stuff growing all over the place on my property.

 

[Iron Woode]

Were it me, here, I would take some to the monthly free plant pathology clinic at local university's botanical gardens. The specialist hosting might have a take on it and if not, probably would have suggestion(s). I did that with some stuff I was finding in my yard... the determination was that it wasn't a plant at all that was accumulating in the leaf liter. I decided it was the lining of my neighbor's heating ducts.

We have the UTRCA:

Upper Thames River Conservation Authority - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I may send the pics to them for identification.

 

[lxskllr]

Monarch butterflies love milkweed. It grows in the fields at work. I keep meaning to dig some up to bring home, but I never seem to get to it.

 

[[DHT]Osiris]

Monarch butterflies love milkweed. It grows in the fields at work. I keep meaning to dig some up to bring home, but I never seem to get to it.

Wait till fall, grab the pods that are cracked open, you can collect hundreds(?) of seeds from each pod, it's this white fluffy stuff. Wait until you see some in a field cracked open and grab any of those, or any others that are starting to look kinda dry and grab them. Let them dry out, then sprinkle the seeds/fluff around your property. It grows pretty readily in just about anything. Does have a tendency to attract paper wasps in the late fall due to weeping sweet sap that they try to harvest, so might want to keep them away from doors and such.

 

[BudAshes]

Not sure where you are at, but in California we have an invasive species called Poison Hemlock that looks like that.

 

[Iron Woode]

Not sure where you are at, but in California we have an invasive species called Poison Hemlock that looks like that.

we, too, have that plant.

I live in SouthWestern Ontario, Canada about 2 hours west of Toronto.

 

[Iron Woode]

after further comparison I have concluded that those flowering plants are, indeed, Conium maculatum or Poison Hemlock.

 

[Leymenaide]

Any chance of a close up are they blooming now? Is so what region? Does not look at all like hemlock.

 

[Iron Woode]

Any chance of a close up are they blooming now? Is so what region? Does not look at all like hemlock.

the pics show flowers.

I have stated where 2 posts earlier.

poison hemlock:


pic I took (warning full size):

 

[Muse]

Monarch butterflies love milkweed. It grows in the fields at work. I keep meaning to dig some up to bring home, but I never seem to get to it.

I used to do that when I was around 13 along with monarch caterpillars. Would raise them in the garage. They'd pupate and hatch and I'd mount them, properly and label.

Nowadays I'm growing a different species of Milkweed (there a quite a few varieties and Monarch larvae will eat them all, I believe). I saw a Monarch flying around the plant the other day, maybe laying eggs. I did have some caterpillars on the plant before, but only know of one hatchling (which flew away!). Very endangered species, at least in the Western US.

I bought this plant at a nursery, but got free seeds online. That was yet a different species, but I never succeeded in growing them.

 

[Iron Woode]

I used to do that when I was around 13 along with monarch caterpillars. Would raise them in the garage. They'd pupate and hatch and I'd mount them, properly and label.

Nowadays I'm growing a different species of Milkweed (there a quite a few varieties and Monarch larvae will eat them all, I believe). I saw a Monarch flying around the plant the other day, maybe laying eggs. I did have some caterpillars on the plant before, but only know of one hatchling (which flew away!). Very endangered species, at least in the Western US.

I bought this plant at a nursery, but got free seeds online. That was yet a different species, but I never succeeded in growing them.

However, some milkweed species are not suitable for butterfly gardens and monarch waystations. For example, Asclepias curassavica, or tropical milkweed, is often planted as an ornamental in butterfly gardens. Year-round plantings in the USA are controversial and criticized, as they may be the cause of new overwintering sites along the U.S. Gulf Coast, leading to year-round breeding of monarchs.[25] This is thought to adversely affect migration patterns, and to cause a dramatic buildup of the dangerous parasite, Ophryocystis elektroscirrha.[26] New research also has shown that monarch larvae reared on tropical milkweed show reduced migratory development (reproductive diapause), and when migratory adults are exposed to tropical milkweed, it stimulates reproductive tissue growth.[27]

Monarch caterpillars do not favor butterfly weed (Asclepias tuberosa) because the leaves of that milkweed species contain little toxin (cardiac glycosides).[citation needed] Some other milkweeds may have similar characteristics.

the correct species to plant would be Asclepias syriaca.

 

[Muse]

the correct species to plant would be Asclepias syriaca.

Hadn't heard of that one. I bought Asclepias Curassavica at local nursery (a perennial, and it's growing in a pot in my back yard). I got seeds of Asclepias Incarnata in the mail (provided by an advocacy organization). That's hard to germinate. I think maybe one seedling came up but it never got anywhere before it died.