last pic .... fuzz thru that group.. and see if you can find the seed husk.. or rotted mulberry ...

total WAG ... as i cant find supporting images ... but you may not be happy about having a local mulberry tree around.. not birds and vermin spreading the see everywhere ...

the pattern is consistent with a berry... so many so close together .. like every single one in one piece of fruit sprouted ...

it not a happy time in my garden.. i can smell all the fallen fruit rotting under the tree .. pretty soon.. it will ferment.. and i will have stoned birds trying to fly thru windows.. lol ...

also.. my Ms have bright yellow roots ... if i pulled one of yours out.. and saw such.. i would tell you its a mulberry ..

ken

Thanks, I will take a look at that group! Everyone has been telling us to take that tree out but it doesn’t seem to produce many berries-some white berries about two months ago but maybe the birds can them and they seem to disintegrate quickly. I will take a look and get back to you!

I get those in my gardens. Do you happen to have a cottonwood tree nearby? For me, those little seedlings grow wherever the cotton has floated to and collected, as there are seeds in the puffs of cotton. Hate them!

There are some seed husks still stuck to some of those seedlings. Of the plants you list Elder looks most likely.

I think floral has it. Here's a pic of elderberry seedling from Google:

I wish I could grow elderberries that easily! We've been trying to get a patch going. They grow in the ditches where they please, but try to tell them where to grow in heavy clay and they don't cooperate. :-D

Thanks guys for the responses! I pulled up some of them and the roots have a bit of a yellow tone to them but more white. I just googled cottonwood tree and haven’t seen any in the area including the white cotton parts but I will keep a watchful eye going forward! So all of those seeds are going to develop into elderberry trees? Last year at this time there were 8-10 feet high forsythia all over there but in April we took most of them out and created a bed with all of those flowers, so I definitely don’t want more trees there. I guess the forsythia brought too much shade under them, and the soil was clay (as toxcrusadr mentioned) at the time before we added amendments and mulch for the beds, thus why this is the first time I’m noticing them In the garden. If they can turn into a bush I’d have the perfect place to move some of them as I know that they make the birds happy.

Oops, the elderberries would turn into bushes. Could they eventually choke out the other perennials every spring also trying to sprout if I just left them there? If they are indeed elderberries I’d keep some of them but still want the other flowers to be visible, LOL!

I’ve reread the post more carefully and had a rethink. If you only planted the lemon lace elder in April it can’t be the parent of those babies. I now believe they're mulberries. Hoe them all out.

. I guess the forsythia brought too much shade under them,

=== the F either created a place for birds to stop and drop seed .. or a dead air zone.. where airborne seed fell to the ground ...

i must have said it elsewhere.. but it is very rare that ma nature drops anything of value into your garden ... and the key clue here is .... no matter what they are.. do you really need a couple hundred more of them in that bed...

remove them asap.. while it is very easy to do so .. and if you want to leave one or two.. to find the ID.. fine.. its much easier to dig up one or two.. than a couple hundred...

ken

You are absolutely right! I will take out most as they are so easy to remove and I will leave a few out of curiosity.