Hello all,
What is this weed??
It is all over the place.

Is it beneficial to anything??

It doesn't look like it flowers. Just keeps staying green. So I can't say it's beneficial to bees, or hummingbirds, or butterflies. Nothing has eaten it, yet.

Thank you

So sorry, I think it's just a weed, I don't know the name. If you look close you can see it actually is blooming, as such.

That's what I meant, sorry I'm still thinking like a non gardener. does its bloom produce nectar?? Have to make sure I use the correct words, and express clearly. I never see any bees or hummingbirds or butterflies feeding on it. Or birds for that matter. It's everywhere in my backyard.
Imaybe it's non native, invasive (it spreads fast) and just isn't beneficial to wildlife in Northern California.

You don't need to apologize, I knew what you meant! No, I don't think it's a butterfly plant, but I could be wrong. You can always rip it out and plant something you know the butterflies will like. You have a lot of choices!

Its Spurge, a Euphorbia. Those tiny tiny yellow things are the flowers. Nothing touches it because its toxic. When you pull it up, wear your gloves.

Commonly known as, 'Milk Weed' due to it's white toxic sap. There is some controversay, whether it is a Euphobia or a member of the Asclepias family.

Hope this is of some help.

Is this really milkweed??????

Yay!

I'm going to let it be then.

Wow I'm gonna google some pics. I hope. Monarch butterflies hopefully.

Fingers crossed. Is there anything I can do to make it more appealing to butterflies?? Will only 1 type of butterfly come to this milkweed?

SoulReaver009

With respect. I'd be quick to remove it. Opinions may differ from the US & GB.

I don't think it's milkweed. I googled it and it looks far from it.

It very closely resembles spurge, but not completely. I'm thinking its from the same family as spurge.

I want to identify it before I remove it. Maybe it's beneficial to lady bugs. Doubt it. My point far off point being that lady bugs are poisonous. I have enough geraniums for my lady bugs, though. I just want to get a positive ID on it. Before I remove it, and then find out it's beneficial to something.

I'm at that point to spray them along with my prickly lettuce and sowing thistle. I'll spray them with water, vinegar, and salt. We don't anything growing in that area anyways. It's on the side of our house, and is an eyesore creeping up out of our rocks.

Thank you

It is not yellow at all. It's more green than yellow green, even.

I will hold up a backdrop with yellow, so people can compare and contrast.

Spurge, milkweed, euphorbia much the same. With respect. Plant names and descriptions are constantly being changed. Please trust me. I have been gardening for around 70 yrs. I am a plant pathologist and plant & soil scientist. If I may. Despite the world recognized plant definitions etc, that make up, what most call the Latin names etc. When researching, we use perhaps firstly the common name. This obviously varies country to country. Usually in reseach. We find alternative names etc. This I believe makes gardening so deeply interesting. Our learning go on and on.

Please continue to enjoy your garden.

Thank you.

You say there are rocks where it is? How about planting echinacea there? Is it hot and dry, or wet? Echinacea are tolerant of many conditions and are superb butterfly plants. Me, I'd remove it and plant something far better for the beneficials.

Thank you such more for the suggestion. I donot have any echinacea seeds. When businesses open up again I may purchase some.

If you have Lowe's and Wal Marts where you live, try there for live plants. Ours here typically carry them, and these stores are staying open, at least here in Arkansas. For most echinacea, planting seeds now would not produce flowers until next year.

Growmore said:Spurge, milkweed, euphorbia much the same.

I'm going to have to disagree with you there...
While spurge and euphorbia have latex sap similar to milkweed... so do a lot of other plants.

You'll notice that the monarchs are not laying eggs on euphorbias or spurge... also... that 'butterfly weed' (asclepias tuberosa) doesn't have the white sap associated with most milkweeds...
so... I would avoid confusing these plants with the milkweed group.

I don't believe in weeds but wildflowers. Maybe this one is annoying to some. It is not Spurge. Spurge has alternating leaves. I do not live in California so my set up on Wildflower search
doesn't bring up this plant. So @SoulReaver009 you can set up on https://wildflowersearch.org/ your location and look up the wildflowers blooming in your area. Then do a google search to find out if you want it or not.

Good luck with your wildflower!