Does it stink when handled?

if a crushed leaf does smell like a carrot.. look at queen annes lace

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The crushed leaf is somewhat aromatic. Queen Annes Lace seems like a good guess, but underside of leaves is not hairy. Or maybe Daucus pusillus. Apiaceae seems clear.

The way it’s growing reminds me of poison hemlock. But I just can’t tell if the leaves are right for that. I get it in an area behind my yard every year.

I’m very jealous of your St Augustine! I’m stuck with Bermuda here.

ETA: Just remembered — when I see it, the stems have purple streaking, so I think I’m wrong about it looking like hemlock.

If the hemlock it will have a stink to it when touched.

No stink. And yes, we all have St. Augustine! This thing is coming up right in the middle of that lawn.

Hey, Dan ... I finally got around to pulling weeds yesterday, and had a lot of this in my beds. I took one and asked at my local nursery, they said it’s Torilis arvensis. I still don’t know if that’s what yours is for sure, but it is very common here, so a definite possibility. The roots on mine match ones I found online. And I saw it in my lawn, too, keeping company with every other weed known to man. 😆 (We had raccoons AND Armadillos digging up our yard all last summer and wow, they really destroyed it.)

Oh yea, I knew this was Spreading Hedgeparsley (Torilis arvensis) without even opening this thread! It is seriously invasive, and I've been amazed at just how many disturbed sites in different cities around the state I've found covered in this! Real fun in the Fall time when they turn into a sticky sea of Velcro pills too, lol!

blakrab, Not Our Cat found a field of it near our house last year ... I dealt with this daily! I have to brush it all out before letting him in.

^ Yea, I can relate! There's no way around it too, because if you try to smash them down, some of them will snap back and fling more pills at you like catapults!

Love how his coat matches the doormat, BTW!

I pull out Hedge parsley for ever around the pace, That is what it looks like to me. When young it also looks like the native Daucosmo lacsiniata which I want to encourage But that will sprout later. I have already started building my compost bin with the Torilis.