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Need ID on weed taking over pasture.

14 years ago

I brought one home with me so I could take a picture, but it was already wilted. I will try my best to describe it with accuracy. They are taking over the pasture of a relative. He lives in east central Alabama.

Height: 2' - 4'

Leaf Length: 3"-4"

Leaf Shape: Elongated Spade

Leaf Arrangement: Opposite

Leaf Veins: Branched or Alternating (Not Parallel)

Stalk/Stem: Square with a thin blade (like a leaf) running the full length on all 4 corners.

Flowers Bloom: Late August or September

Flower Color: Yellow

Flower Arrangement: Multiple clusters at the top. It's hard to tell because they are dead and falling off now. I think there might have been 3 or 4 flowers per cluster.

Flower size: 3/4 inch to an inch

Goats won't touch it.

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Comments (2)

bruglover
14 years ago
Sounds almost like a sneezeweed, Helenium flexuosum, although they have alternate leaves. It has a bitter flavor and livestock won't usually eat it. See link below. That's an Illinois site, but the plant grows here in SE Louisiana too.

Did the flowers look like more daisies? Like dandelions?

Here is a link that might be useful: Sneezeweed
kuroba
Original Author
14 years ago
Thats a good guess, but the middle part of the flower is too big, and the leaves way off. The stem looks about right though.

The flowers look more like small daisies to me. I thought it might be a lanceleaf figwort or eastern figwort, but the flowers are wrong.
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