#1 Tree of Heaven. Yank it.

#4 Vinca Major. Major spreader can be invasive.

#9 looks like pokeweed to me too. I pull handfuls every morning.

#12 - Lithodora.

I agree with token's ID's, and here's a couple more-
2 looks like a houseplant i used to have, but don't recall the name now. in the aralia clan maybe? parsley leafed aralia??
3 might be a golden caryopteris. or maybe a spirea. Kinda hard to tell- any scent? is it fuzzyish on back? anise scent could indicate agastache- i have one that looks very similar.
5 looks like a gardenia to me.
6, 8, and 10 do look like they are part of the wandering jew/tradescantia clan. Some are hardy; some aren't- but they grow fast enough you can keep some for houseplants and plant some cuttings in the garden and see if they come back.
7 is a jade
9 sure looks like poke to me too.
11- hard to say without knowing what it smells like. If it's anise scented, it's tarragon. If it's lavender scented it could be a rangy one of those. there are some other herbs that look like that and countless other plants.
12 is def lithodora- a really nice plant (and hard to find the vari version). But it wants really good drainage so take care where you put it this wet summer.

3 looks kind of like my Beauty Berry Bush, Callicarpa. The birds will love the purple berries. Nancy

Actually #1 looks like Sumac; it doesn't have the characteristic leaf notch of TOH on one side of the leaflet near the stem.

Yes! Lithodora! I knew it started with an L and it was something star and I kept wanting to call it Liatris Blazing Star but I knew that wasn't what it was. And yes, I have noticed it hates being too wet. It is already starting to get unhappy beneath all of that healthy growth.

I went out and took a sniff of 3 and 11 and did not find that they had any type of smell to them. Is it possible that number three could be a Salvia coccinea? (Not asking rhetorical questions I promise, I have just been doing some research on my own in the interim lol)

The serrate edges is what made me think it may not be a tree of heaven and was leaning toward Staghorn sumac. The leaves in the photos of that type of sumac seem real glossy though and the leaves on this thing are matte and very soft. That could be due to it being a very young plant though. Everything I have read so far says it is invasive in some areas but native to the Northeast. You think if it is sumac it still needs to be yanked?

Thanks for everyone's help and input. I know that was a lot of plants to post at once. I'm in the process of drawing up plans for the landscape and having a nice list of what I have is going to be a real help!

I apologize Nancy, I wasn't trying to be contrary regarding your suggestion by asking if it was something else. I actually missed your post the first time around. Thank you for your input as well!

No, i don't think 3 is salvia coccinea. the leaves on those are usually a lot more greyish, slightly fuzzy and sort of a triangle-er shape (hard to describe). You'd know in short order b/c of the flaming blooms at any rate. I agree that it could be a beautybush, but it still looks more like caryopteris to me.

No help at all on 11 if it's not scented. Maybe the best thing to do is wait til ti flowers and try to ID from that.

I wondered about 1 being a sumac, but since i'm not that familiar with tree of heaven, i figured she knew better. I do know there are 3 or more types of sumac in our area. I have 1 kind growing myself (winged if i recall right). They can be pretty plants and the fruit is edible (you make a drink from it), but they are a bit invasive in that they sucker to form a colony. I like the way they look and love the fall color and bloom/fruit color (bright orange red and burgundy velvet), so i try to leave a bit of mine growing, but whack it low each year to keep it in ck. There are some choice cultivars of sumac- tiger eyes being one- so it can't be an all bad plant, even if it is a bit weedy. At least it's native, and the birds like the berries.

Good luck with the lithodora. I've killed more than i like to admit to- i just find it so hard to resist the neat form and that eye popping blue. They don't like the heat of our summers, or maybe it's the mugginess. I have had a vari one like yours that's stayed alive for 2 yrs now in a tub with some loganberries. Fingers crossed....

You know, I did this last year and thought to myself that it would have made more sense to wait for blooms for some of them. I guess I tend to get a little ahead of myself.

My first thought was that number one may be a tree of heaven since this city seems to be infested with them. When I got to looking into it though it said that the leaves margins are entire with only a few teeth at the base. So.. I plugged "confused with tree of heaven" in my search engine which is where I found the staghorn sumac. Apparently it is common to confuse the two.

The Lithodora did great last year through the heat and drought with morning sun and lightly filtered sun in the afternoons. My vote would be for the humidity. I killed one in a pot with regular watering. It went down almost as quick as the Jacobs Ladder (which is doing really crappy right now as well).

One last note before I wrap up my long winded response. When you mention the anise scent it reminded me of a grocery store outing one day when my daughter was younger. She may have been in the third or fourth grade and knew how to read but hearing some words with a southern dialect can confuse a child sometimes. Anyway, they had a bottle of anise oil on the shelf and I noticed a very disturbed look on her face. So I ask her, "What's up?" to which she retorts, "Why in the world would they sell that here?". I explained that it was used to add flavors to foods and she just gets this real grossed out look on her face and blurts out in the middle of the store..."Oh! That is DISGUSTING!" Most of you have probably guessed where this is going by now but I'm sort of slow sometimes so I ask, "Why do you think that is so gross?" She says, "Well it was bad enough when I thought it was something I thought you PUT on your anus but knowing it is MADE of anus and people put it on their FOOD..." That was the day my elementary school child learned to spell the word anus.. the proper way.

Loved your anise story. That is wonderful, a teachable moment. Nancy

My ideas:
#1 - some form a Sumac. Doesn't look like Staghorn or the deeply cut leaf form called Tiger Eye, but they come in a million different forms and will look different specially when they are young.

#2 - total mystery

#3 - looks like that short Salvia with the blue flowers. I think they call it German Sage, but it could be anything.

#4 - Vinca major

#5 - Possibly Justicia carnea or Brazillian Flame or Brazillilan Torch Flower - has a million names. Dawn brought some to the Raleigh swap and she may have brought them to the HP swap.

#6, #8, #10 - in the family Tradescantia the names Setcreacea, Callisia, Tradescantia, Zebrina are pretty much interchangeable. Some experts call the classic Wandering Jew plant Zebrina whereas others call it Trandescantia. Some of the variegated Wandering Jew vines are considered a Callisia but I would think they are a Zebrina. Check out Callisia elegans and Callisia repens - what I have always known as Mouse Eared Jew or Bolivian Jew.

#7 - possibly Sedum lucidum or Sedum furfuraceum. The more sunshine the more pink in the leaves

#9 - common Poke Weed

#10 - could be a solid green form of Blushing Bride - a great winter hardy wandering jew.

#11 - looks like Taragon to me

#12 - Lithodora diffusa

Thank you for the additional information. I think I remember someone telling me that the shaggy plant was Bolivian Jew and certainly looks exactly like the Callisia repens.

I know I moved in here two and a half years ago with no more than twenty plants, some of the same variety. Between the trips to Stacy's, the swaps and seed grown varieties, I am wrapping up my list today with 250 different varieties of plants. Some of those I have multiples of. Next year a lot will finally be mature enough to be divided. I'm going to be busy....

I think #1 is Sumac as well, b/c I have those same things popping up in my yard. EVERYWHERE! I don't know why either?? The stems on my sumac are red. They are easy to pull out like pokeweed too.

I think your number three looks like a bee balm or Monarda

Eight is a wandering jew but I'm very unsure of the botanical name of it....I also think number 10 is a wandering jew.

I have a bunch of your number four in my yard. I pull it up...it comes right back....I even tried Roundup on it...didn't even make it flinch! lol
It had grown up in a billion year old azalea bush the previous owners of my house had planted back in the 1800's. lol
The bush is gone...but it remains...little bugger!

I definitely agree with the sumac identification. Now I just need to figure out which one it is LOL. I'll probably see if I can pot it up because like most stuff that the birds bring in, it isn't where I want it anyway.

lol cannadoit. Oddly enough I have an azalea right behind it. It is right in front of my greenhouse where I have pretty much decided what I want there so I am going to pot it up as well anyway.

I don't have a lot to add, but I think that #7 is an Anacampseros. They're pretty common at the big box stores. This one looks like it's leggy from insufficient light, like mine do after spending a winter in the garage under grow lights. It's more hardy than you would think -- I have one tucked outside at the top of some rocks that's overwintered for several years now.

Number 5 might be Tecoma stans or maybe T. sans. You'll know if it blooms. Tecomas have bright yellow trumpets, some forms are orange.

#7 spend all winter in a warm greenhouse but it has been in mostly shade all spring since I brought it out. Maybe I should move it out into the sun lol.

Thanks again. I'll make sure to update the thread when I do see blooms.