if it is a weed pluck out one of the bunches the smallest and take it to a farmers market there are always the county extension agent at them this time of year they would know. good luck
It's NOT Bachelor Buttons the leaves are entirely too wide and too closely spaced, it's not sweet William for the same reason. It's NOT Phlox, the entire leaf is too large and again too closely compacted... It almost looks like an asiatic lily, like the stargazer lily but without having something to show the scale of the plant it's hard to say...
I agree with Sharron W. Not any of those plants. It looks like some kind of Helios (yellow flowers). Fiberous, or tap root? What do they do throughout the year, and kind of seed pods? Remember... a rose in a field of wheat is the "weed"... :) <3 oh,and, I don't know what it is. LOL
Let one grow to see what it is. If it is a milk weed that i have they are beautiful pink round blooms and smells very fragrant. If it is a phlox they are beautiful flowers as well. Take a leaf to your closest gardener he should know.
It isn't Bachelor Buttons. I have a large bed where they are growing profusely. The leaves are right. The leaves don't look big enough for milkweed (the food for the monarch butterfly caterpillar).
The third picture, the one with the purple in the middle, looks like purple coneflower to me except I never had ones with jagged leaves. Could there be some other variety of coneflower that has leaves like that?
Queens Annes Lace. They are a weed but if you let them grow and use them for cut flowers you can put food coloring in the water and the flowers will change to that color.
looks like swamp daisies/swamp sunflower. if it gets 6 feet tall with yellow blooms in the fall, then that's what it is! i love it, except it can get heavy as it grows and fall over. i've been told that you can cut it to about 3 ft in June to encourage bushiness and more blooms.
I think that it IS Mexican Sage, but would have to see it in bloom to know for sure. It has tall purple flower, like salvia and is very pretty when planted in a mass grouping witn corepsis or Rudbeckias blooming next to it.
@Susan F. Coneflower leaves are hairy aren't they? Or am I confused...I haven't had any in several years since I reworked my beds but I thought I remembered them being prickly...
@Renee B a square stem is usually identified with plants related to the Mint family and while they CAN be invasive, they can also be controlled and quite useful...
@Renee B a square stem is usually identified with plants related to the Mint family and while they CAN be invasive, they can also be controlled and quite useful...