Can You Name These Michigan Weeds? Are they, indeed, weeds?

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The annual invasion is upon me... and I don't even know their names and I am not even sure that they are weeds.... can anyone identify/name these weeds? Some are even pretty!

Terry Thurston · Answer

I don't know, but I have them too...

Luis · Answer

The first one is Common Lambsquarters weed

Susan Humphrey · Answer

All of my weeds are wildflowers!

Gardenbuff · Answer

I was going to say the first one looks like pigweed, which is edible, and tastes kind of like spinach. Is lambsquarters the same as pigweed?

Luis · Answer

Number 4 is White Campion, Silene latifolia

Love Digging in the Dirt · Answer

I think they are all weeds. I have them also and pull them.

Niki Hart · Answer

The first one is indeed edible, I used to 'harvest' them with my granny, and they 
taste pretty good!

Donna Huth-Willis · Answer

pull it out!! it gets seeds all over it and you will have hundreds!!

KathrynElizabeth Etier · Answer

We've got them in NC, too, and they spread rapidly.

Mary Sullivan · Answer

Donna you are referring to the second one? I see seeds on the stems. I would love to know the 3rd and 5th ones. The 3rd is quite prolific and appears in the same location (near downspout/partial sun and shade... 3 leans toward the sun.... 5 leans toward the shade) as the 5th one - whose dark spots make it kind of pretty....

Mary Sullivan · Answer

I am also sprouting a couple of mushrooms around the garden and lawn areas....

Luis · Answer

The last one is call Smartweed

Terry Thurston · Answer

Watch the mushrooms if you have pets, children..  Some are deadly if
You eat
Them.

Luis · Answer

Not 100% sure but I think nr 2 is young wild Amaranth

Rhonda Clements · Answer

I get the first one and the 2nd one here in Seattle it is a damn nightmare, they are everywhere!! a constant battle

Brenda Holland · Answer

All bad.  Pull!

Ct · Answer

1st is lambsquarter, edible when young,.. too strong tasting old. Second, a type of Amaranth, sometimes called pigweed.  There are different pigweeds. Mine is duller,but google it, you'll see. 3rd,maybe young amaranth,but it may have to get bigger to tell.
4th lynchnis alba (white champion),  5th smart weed, I don't know that it is good for anything.

Mary Sullivan · Answer

Thank you so much!

Shelley · Answer

The first one I believe is lambs quarters and is healthy to eat

Shelley · Answer

http://www.ediblewildfood.com/edible-weeds.aspx

Dianne · Answer

I agree that the 1st one is lambs quarters. When growing up it was one of the weeds we had to pull out of the soybean field

Wanda sinnema · Answer

the 3rd photo looks like an alder tree seedling spread by the birds....

Janet Stephenson-macfarlan · Answer

top one is lambs quarters.  If you have enough of them--eat them.  like spinach.  yum

Patches · Answer

The one is called Lambs Quarters. As a child we used to pick them and they tasted just like spinach. Really good steamed with butter.

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