I can think of chickweed and sneezeweed. I know that chickweed is definitely a weed...but does anyone have sneezeweed and how does it perform for you?

Brenda

Joe Pye Weed
Dill Weed
Goutweed

Yup sounds like stuff that can get weedy... good observation Hunner.

I can certainly vouch for dill being a weed! I planted some about 10 years ago and it's all over the place now. Sometimes you can see the stuff i haven't Photoshopped out of my pictures! :)

Shauna grows Helenium (sneezeweed) - hmmm, she has a cold now too, i wonder how that correlates? LOL Anyway, she sent me seed, so she might know if it's weedy or not.

I've had Helenium autumnale for a long time - not at all weedy! They add nice late color to the garden. With your warmer summers there, Brenda, it wouldn't surprise me if they did better there than here - sometimes they freeze off before the flowers get to open fully. But all the stars aligned last summer, somehow, and they looked great!
Another "sneezeweed" that might do well for you - for very early bloom, this time - is Helenium hoopesii. Native to the Colorado plains. It sounded like Pudge in zone 2 was having good results with them last year.

Okay, so not weedy, and not allergenic either - where the heck do these common names come from?
Actually, my sense is that the word "weed" was just the common term applied by early North American settlers to many native plants. Some definitely earn the term, but fortunately, a whole lot don't.

Do you really find Joe Pye weedy, northspruce? I really like the Eupatorium species I have - very attractive and well-behaved, plus they're big stately things - lots of presence! Again, the one/ones called 'Joe Pye' are native North American plants, hence the "weed" bit, I figure.

Oh no in fact I don't have any Joe Pye Weed, I guess I was just thinking that it is a large plant. My mistake.

I find dill actually quite easy to control even though it seeds heavily. The seedlings are easy to identify and any I don't want I just weed out early in the spring. Marcia, I wouldn't even photoshop them out... I think they're reasonably attractive. Maybe if you keep leaving them in your pictures it will start a trend and everyone will be photoshopping them in! ;0)

Oh yeah - a real trend-setter i'll be! LOL

They ARE attractive, but enough is enough! I sometimes leave a few plants in one of the front beds for easy access when i'm pickling. If i let them go, i could probably sell them and make a fortune. :> I'd be a DILLionaire!

Fireweed

hehehe Marcia...DILLionaire...now thats funny!

I also know that Goldenrod doesn't have weed in its name but back home in NS it was considered a weed, so I find it very funny that people would willingly plant it in their gardens...and along those veins I could add the native NS Lupin...grows EVERYWHERE...in ditches along the sides of highways, in medians...weird eh!