This came up in a friend’s garden here in Ithaca. We suspect it might be a native plant or hitched it’s way in on a plant from another garden. It has a 4-sided stem. Root is about the size of a pencil stub.
Any ideas?
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This came up in a friend’s garden here in Ithaca. We suspect it might be a native plant or hitched it’s way in on a plant from another garden. It has a 4-sided stem. Root is about the size of a pencil stub.
Any ideas?
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4-sided stem? it’s clearly an alien, a parsnip that decided it wanted to be a silk plant, and then a tree instead.
Velvetleaf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abutilon_theophrasti
http://www.ontarioweeds.com/weed.php?w=ABUTH
Oooo! If it’s what I think it is, get rid of it – quick!
It sure looks like the invasive weed that hitched a ride in some grain seed the local farmers ordered from China. I looked it up when we and our neighbors started seeing it popping up everywhere on our properties, and one of the local farmers confirmed it.
Another alien invasive weed – Just what we need in NY, eh?