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Name: Kathy Michigan - rural (Zone 5a)        TreeClimber Jul 25, 2020 10:26 AM CST |
I have been pulling this "weed", but I know I don't get all of the root .... anyone know what it is so I can find information on eliminating it.   |
Name: Kathy Michigan - rural (Zone 5a) TreeClimber Jul 25, 2020 11:04 AM CST |
Better photo of the bloom. |
Name: Janine NE Connecticut (Zone 6a)      janinilulu Jul 25, 2020 11:48 AM CST |
| Looks like two different plants; the yellow flower is from a Physalis (maybe P. peruviana) and the other one (pic 3, but also part of pic 2) is an Amaranthus/Pigweed. |
Name: Kathy Michigan - rural (Zone 5a) TreeClimber Jul 25, 2020 12:41 PM CST |
| Thanks Janine, I'll take a closer look. If you pull the pigweed and leave behind some root will it grow again? |
Name: Daisy I Reno, Nv (Zone 6b) Not all who wander are lost    DaisyI Jul 25, 2020 2:05 PM CST |
| Image #2 shows a Physalis on the left and Pigweed on the right. Image #3 is just the Pigweed. Both are easy to pull but don't let them go to seed first. Don't leave pulled Pigweed lying around - it will reroot. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and proclaiming...."WOW What a Ride!!" -Mark Frost President: Orchid Society of Northern Nevada Webmaster: osnnv.org |
Name: Kathy Michigan - rural (Zone 5a) TreeClimber Jul 25, 2020 2:48 PM CST |
| Thank You ... |
Name: Kathy Michigan - rural (Zone 5a) TreeClimber Jul 26, 2020 6:10 AM CST |
| Thank You ... |
Name: Rick R. Minneapolis, MN, USA zone 4       Leftwood Jul 26, 2020 3:20 PM CST |
| Pigweed is fairly easy to pull out the whole root. If it Physalis peruviana, it should also pull out completely. More likely, I think it is one our native Physalis, like P. virginiana. It roots deeply like milkweed and creeps all over underground like milkweed, too. When you physically pull the above ground portion, you usually get a single vertical root with very little side roots, that breaks before it joins with the horizontal root that it attaches to deep underground. This is a perennial native that comes from the same network of roots every year. I wouldn't bother trying to kill it chemically among other desirable plants. You wouldn't be successful. Just pull it up whenever you see it. It won't take over your garden unless you let it. When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers. - Socrates |
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