What's this? I have a lot of it in my garden, and I want to know if it's edible (and therefore worth keeping) or not (and therefore I should treat it as a weed).
It's fairly easy to get rid of luckily, but in PA near my parents' house it's choking out a lot of stuff along the roadsides. Spreads like, well, a weed. :)
>>Invasive species in the USA, native to Europe. << My immediate reaction upon seeing garlic mustard plants in England was to worry about invasives taking over the park, and then realized that they were natives there.
It does look a lot like buttercups, except that now I look closer, all these flowers have four petals each, while buttercups have five. I wonder if it's a mustard variant...
Hard to tell exactly, but it looks like a plant I had growing in my herb garden until recently. It started off looking a lot like cilantro or parsley, but then became obviously not, so I pulled it.
Thanks for posting this; we have it in our garden too (in the wilds of Central PA) and I'd been wondering about it. I've now gone an pulled what I could. It's growing pretty much around and through the links in our fences that we share with the neighbors.
It's not as bad as bittersweet! I spent an hour this morning pulling at pernicious bittersweet roots that permeated the patch of ground where I wanted to plant a rose. I did finally succeed in my quest, but it took four different tools (shovel, hoe, heavy-duty clippers, and garden fork), and there are still plenty of roots in there which will continue to sprout more accursed bittersweet in the years to come. I'll bet it likes the compost I added, too. [end rant]
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If Yes: it's a particularly pernicious weed that'll spread like crazy.
If no... got a wider picture of the plant?
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Do you know what it's called?
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http://www.projectnoah.org
It's fairly easy to get rid of luckily, but in PA near my parents' house it's choking out a lot of stuff along the roadsides. Spreads like, well, a weed. :)
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And it looks like you're right on the ID.
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Greater Celandine
Chelidonium majus L.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelidonium
"The whole plant is toxic in moderate doses as it contains a range of isoquinoline alkaloids but there are numerous therapeutic uses when used at the correct dosage."
Invasive species in the USA, native to Europe.
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>>Invasive species in the USA, native to Europe. <<
My immediate reaction upon seeing garlic mustard plants in England was to worry about invasives taking over the park, and then realized that they were natives there.
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Crafty bugger. ;-/
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