A mystery plant has shown up in my flower bed. Any one know what it is
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Aimee Maas on May 23, 2013I think it might be rhubarb.Helpful Reply
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Lillie Smitherman on May 23, 2013Looks like wild shard! It lays dormant until you till the soil and then it comes up every where!Helpful Reply
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Sarah Maes Lieberenz on May 23, 2013This is not nut grass. It's pretty but it looks like it is a seed spreader.Helpful Reply
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Melissa on May 23, 2013I'm with Aimee. Looks like rhubarb to me, too. The flower stem is just like it.Helpful Reply
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360 Sod (Donna Dixson) on May 23, 2013What color are the stems? Can't tell from the pictures.Helpful Reply
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Pat on May 23, 2013I have to agree with rhubarb...Helpful Reply
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Judy on May 24, 2013Yes, pretty sure it's rhubarb. If you want rhubarb cut the flower stalks off & keep cutting them off until they quit coming up. It prevents the plant from putting all its energy into seed production.Helpful Reply
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Mary lou palumbo on May 24, 2013It looks like rhubarb that has gone to seed!Helpful Reply
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KMS Woodworks on May 24, 2013another vote for rhurbarb http://threadeds.blogspot.com/2010/06/rhubarb-flowers.htmlHelpful Reply
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Debbie Siemens on May 24, 2013rhubarb,,,cook the stem up with sugar and water and eat it! (but not the leaf, Ooo tummy ache)Helpful Reply
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Ann Cushley on May 24, 2013looks like rhubarb....cook it up delicious..cut off flowers...Helpful Reply
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Hilliriah Jacobs on May 25, 2013dont know what it is but i like the idea that it flowersHelpful Reply
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Sallie Leister on May 25, 2013i have it coming up every where in my new home was hoping for rhubarb as I love it. No flower, pulled up one stock a little pink but smelled like very green like a weed. Think it has been here for many years this is an older home and I can tell past owners loved there yard. If it is rhubarb when will it be ready topick.Helpful Reply
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Vicky Jones on May 25, 2013Looks like rhubarb to me. My parents always raised rhubarb and it looks like the older ones that have the green stalk. Stalks are edible but not the leaves. They say the leaves are poisonousHelpful Reply
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Terresa K on May 25, 2013Rhubarb plantHelpful Reply
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Kathleen T on May 25, 2013rhubarbHelpful Reply
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Paula Smith on May 26, 2013Take a sample of it to the county extension office. They should be able to identify it.Helpful Reply
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Fern Valley Farm on May 27, 2013It is definitely rhubarb and boy are you lucky! Rhubarb is not always easy to grow. When the stalks are a foot or taller, break, do not cut, the stalks off. You can cut the large leaf off and discard. It is poisonous but makes a great insecticide so put it where ever you'd like to kill bugs. DO NOT EAT THE beautiful leaf. The rhubarb stalks can be green or pink or red -- all are delicious. Go online and find a great strawberry and rhubarb pie recipe and you will be in heaven. We make and sell about 150 jars of strawberry rhubarb jam - also easy to make and very tasty. Make sure you cut the seed parts off or just like any other plant that goes to seed, it will stop producing the stalks. When you cut the stalks, leave a few behind. The plant will keep producing rhubarb as long as you don't completely cut it all at least through the summer months. And it will come back next year. If you don't like it where it is, gently take a shovel and dig it up and replant. It needs sun but will get about 2 feet x 2 feet if you let it grow to it's complete height. Be delighted. You are one of the lucky ones --- not every part of the country can grow this early summer plant. Lynn at Fern Valley FarmHelpful Reply
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Ruth12345 on May 28, 2013I would say it's rhubarb to?Helpful Reply
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Sarah Batzloff on May 29, 2013Yes, it's rhubarb, you should cut off the seed/flower stem so that the plant will maintain its highest quality and maximum yield of tasty stalks. There are soooo many great recipes for rhubarb out there - ENJOY!!Helpful Reply
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Susan on Jun 30, 2015This is a rhubarb plant.Helpful Reply
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Karen Bjorngaard on May 08, 2016Yummy!! I grew up in ND, where we had rhubarb plants that were as old as the homestead- 70+ years & still delicious!Helpful Reply
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