Weeds with 5 leaves

[creedog]

Someone help me identify these two weeds growing in my yard. The one with 5 leaves looks poisonous to me.

I have had to cut back on the amount of naked weedwacking that I do.

The first one seems to grow on a small vine that runs along the ground.


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This one is some sort of runner that seems to grow in huge patches and is also getting in my grass. Its easy to pull up and is wet to the touch.

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[aircooled]

Virginia Ivy

 

[mercanucaribe]

I'd rather have plants like that than a boring grass lawn.

 

[creedog]

Originally posted by: aircooled
Virginia Ivy

maybe not. but how about viginia creeper

http://www.cnr.vt.edu/dendro/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=126

 

[creedog]

any ideas for the other one?

 

[notfred]

How does a plant "look poisonous" ?

 

[creedog]

Originally posted by: notfred
How does a plant "look poisonous" ?

Well, the site for the carolina creeper states that it is often mistaken for poison oak. So I gues thats how

 

[Tobolo]

If want to know for sure then contact your local extension office. Look in the phone book under governmental listings. They will get identified for you (even if they have to send it to a university) free of charge. Great asset.

 

[Powermoloch]

weeds are the roots of all evil !!!!

 

[BrokenVisage]

Dats that hydro herb, B.

 

[Sepen]

Originally posted by: creedog
Someone help me identify these two weeds growing in my yard. The one with 5 leaves looks poisonous to me.

I have had to cut back on the amount of naked weedwacking that I do.

The first one seems to grow on a small vine that runs along the ground.


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This one is some sort of runner that seems to grow in huge patches and is also getting in my grass. Its easy to pull up and is wet to the touch.

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The 2nd one looks like the makings of a beanstalk.