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Southeastern Pennsylvania  GardenerSmith May 11, 2018 9:24 AM CST |
This plant came into my yard on a young rhododendron plant sold by the rhododendron society at a local Arboretum sale. It has gradually spread to cover a huge area, and birds have now moved it to a couple of other places where I am just barely able to control it. Rhizomes are very deep, so pulling them up doesn't help. I have looked on many plant sites over the years, and can't find it as a plant or an invasive.  |
Name: Kyle Middle TN (Zone 7a)              quercusnut May 11, 2018 9:27 AM CST |
| Looks like some kind of Arisaema or other aroid. That thing on top of the scape is the 'flower'. Send me some!  |
Name: Deb Planet Earth (Zone 8b)      Bonehead May 11, 2018 9:31 AM CST |
| I got a laugh out of 'a plant or an invasive' -- but what a pretty little groundcover. Do you not like it? I'm always happy to have volunteers in my gardens. You may be able to ID it from your local native plant website, which often include non-native invasives. I want to live in a world where the chicken can cross the road without its motives being questioned. |
Southeastern Pennsylvania GardenerSmith May 11, 2018 10:43 AM CST |
quercusnut said:Looks like some kind of Arisaema or other aroid. That thing on top of the scape is the 'flower'. I don't think you would really want any of this one! I have lots of Arisaema of different kinds, mainly wild, and although the scape of this plant does resemble the nice ones, the leaf is quite different. I agree, it is undoubtedly a relative of the desirable ones, but this one is taking over one azalea bed, and threatening a tree peony. If allowed to grow, the leaves get to about a foot tall, and seem to go mainly by rhizomes. I saw one place in our town where an entire bed about 15 feet in diameter had been overrun with that plant, and it did not look pretty! |
Name: Deb Planet Earth (Zone 8b) Bonehead May 11, 2018 11:02 AM CST |
| Confused I guess. What exactly are the "nice ones" or "desirable ones" - and how would these "threaten a tree peony" (?) I am in a totally different eco-zone, so perhaps have no idea of how this plant may (or may not) affect a garden. From the photo provided, I thought it was lovely. I want to live in a world where the chicken can cross the road without its motives being questioned. |
Name: Sally central Maryland Seriously addicted to kettle chips.         sallyg May 11, 2018 11:05 AM CST |
| They may be growing at the Arboretum, or grown by one of the rhodo poeple who provided the rhodo..maybe pursue with one of them ..come into the peace of wild things..-Wendell Berry Life is a buffet (anon) |
Name: Kyle Middle TN (Zone 7a) quercusnut May 11, 2018 11:39 AM CST |
GardenerSmith said: I was half-kidding. Would not want to impose but I would like to have it. I have 8 acres. I could find a happy place for it.  |
Name: Daisy I Reno, Nv (Zone 6b) Not all who wander are lost    DaisyI May 11, 2018 11:58 AM CST |
GardenerSmith, if you don't like it, get rid of it. That's the nice thing about your own yard - its your own yard. Maybe quercusnut will come over and help you dig it out.  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: Kyle Middle TN (Zone 7a) quercusnut May 11, 2018 12:05 PM CST |
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