I think those posters are right--some type of wild lettuce. They can get up to six feet! Too bad your Yucca lovin' deer won't eat those, huh?

Maybe the deer will take a liking to the flowers?

Hopefully, the wild lettuce is a plant that prefers moisture and won't return in a dry year. It seems that every seed that ever landed in my yard during the last 100 years is sprouting this year because of all the rain.

I am with you Ragna. I think I am developing a permanent stoop. The prickly lettuce now have a welcoming home in the compost heap along with all the sticky socks plant (beggars lice whatever you call it), which is huge this year fed by pre flowering weeds. Coffee and weeding, coffee and weeding, ad infinitum. I might need some of this softer opium qualities of the milky sap of the Prickly lettuce by the time this weed season is over with...... Oh yea, it never ends just slows down or it gets so hot , I don't give a d@^m.

I forgot to mention , next chore is the thistle in the 5 acre front field.

oops I did the cheatgrass before the thistles. compost Pile is growing

and the Malta star thistle

I have a bit of star thistle in the cattle guard that I pull every year. Not bad this year , I think. I have a new thistle on my neighbor's fence line by road ( soon to be on mine since he does nothing about it ) called Slim flowered thistle. So I have three types of thistle to deal with