Asked on May 21, 2014
is this a weed or flower?
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Diane Kaul
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This plant popped up in my flower bed this year. It grew quickly and is almost 2 feet tall already. Does anyone know what it is?
122 answers
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Might be cowslip. Or maybe fringed leaf bleeding heart (oxalis)
Peggy Rickard
on May 21, 2014
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mustard wild mustard. for sure
Marsha J
on May 21, 2014
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I agree-wild mustard
Rhonda B
on May 21, 2014
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it looks like a yellow bell but sure though if I had a better pic I could tell you if it is or not
Cynthia Squibb
on May 21, 2014
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I'm not sure, but I've seen it before. Pretty sure it's wild.
Lynne Gaylor
on May 21, 2014
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weed but pretty I agree wild mustard
Amanda DeLoach
on May 21, 2014
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It is wild mustard. It will take over your whole flower bed by next year. VERY ivasive
Janel ray
on May 22, 2014
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its very pretty whatever it is, i say a weed is only flower/plant you dont want, some of our much loved flowers have been bred from weeds, they also have a place in feeding the wildlife
Tracy Gilmore
on May 22, 2014
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I looked it up and it is wild mustard. Don't toss it, you can use it. Just look up what uses for wild mustard.
Tina Krenz
on May 22, 2014
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looks like mustard
Rebecca Shriver
on May 23, 2014
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Yep wild mustard.
Jacqueline W
on May 23, 2014
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you are bless is Mustard, bees love them , butterfly's do to
Sully Droulias
on May 23, 2014
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wild mustard
Noreen Nusbaum
on May 23, 2014
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Wild mustard and it takes over everything
Denise King-McNett
on May 23, 2014
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here in Wisconsin, it's considered an invasive plant.
Heidi Leeck
on May 23, 2014
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It is a mustard plant. I have a couple. Here's a picture of what it looks like.
Deb Higgins
on May 23, 2014
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mustard seed
Debbie O'Donnell
on May 23, 2014
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I was once told that a weed is any plant that grows where you dont want it... If you think its pretty than it ISNT a weed! lol
Lynn Warren Chapman
on May 23, 2014
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They Are Very Invasive.
Doris C
on May 23, 2014
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It's wild mustard and it is edible. My grandmother couldn't wait till spring to gather some wild greens.
Kathy Schrader
on May 23, 2014
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Wild Mustard. If you like it it's a flower, if you don't it's a weed.
Karen Dries
on May 23, 2014
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Run it is a monster plant. Just a little humor. Wild mustard.
Beatrice Brown
on May 23, 2014
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Wild mustard.
Theresa Miller
on May 23, 2014
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Very invasive mustard weed
Susan B
on May 23, 2014
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Its a weed, Ive been pulling them out for what seems like an eternity
Rae
on May 23, 2014
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Oh I may have this too! A neighbor asked my husband what it was when he was working in the yard recently, but he didn't know. It was very pretty when blooming, but I told him I thought it was actually a weed, however I wasn't sure. I need to go check the leaves against this picture! Thanks :)
Cc
on May 23, 2014
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😁spray with vinegar to kill it. It spreads!
Pamela Edwards
on May 23, 2014
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It's a mustard flower, it's used in the fields near mine when the potato season is finished.
Toni Le Gresley
on May 23, 2014
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When I was a little girl, I would go with my dad to pull everyone of these plants out of the oats fields. Every evening, we would check the oats fields for wild mustard. I'm in WI too, it's an invasive species that is supposed to be destroyed when found.
Sharon Prellwitz
on May 23, 2014
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Yep wild mustard.. pull it up roots and all and throw it away it will take over
Karen Phillips
on May 23, 2014
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I have a bumper crop of this wild mustard. Fortunately they pull out easily.
Jeanne
on May 23, 2014
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Can you make mustard with this?
Sandy Johnson
on May 23, 2014
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I love mustard greens. I also have lots of this I was thinking about eating it
Phy106002
on May 23, 2014
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yes you collect the seed and grind it up viola! mustard! well mix with vinegar and mustard
Darlene Patrick
on May 23, 2014
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A WEED is only in the hands of the beholder!
Jean Marie
on May 23, 2014
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Almost looks like lantana
Cindy Smith
on May 23, 2014
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Alyssum?
Ire115471
on May 23, 2014
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Its a pretty weed :-)
Anita Thompson Draggoo
on May 23, 2014
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yep...wild mustard some vinyards in Ca. plant mustard in the off season.
Dix183812
on May 23, 2014
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I believe you can eat it, but yes it is a weed!
Kristy Phipps
on May 23, 2014
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I believe its's wild mustard. Just a weed
Susette Rodrigues
on May 23, 2014
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It would be a weed in my garden. Looks like mustard weed
Linda Stankey
on May 23, 2014
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Most state extension offices consider this to be a very invasive weed and it is very difficult to eradicate once it gets a good hold. I would dig it out and make sure you get as much of the root as you can or you will end up with it throughout your garden and yard.
Rachelle D
on May 23, 2014
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It is a mustard weed, but every flower is a weed somewhere. They are pretty when nothing else will grow.
LAVENA SWANSON
on May 23, 2014
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It's pretty if it is a weed
Wendy G
on May 23, 2014
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Forsynthia ask on Garden Web
Gretchen W
on May 23, 2014
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Weed
Claudia Ridge
on May 23, 2014
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It is a weed. I had one and yelled at my husband for pulling it out. Took it to the local nursery and it was indeed....a weed
PammyK
on May 23, 2014
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It is mustard weed...very pretty but invasive. I let mine grow a while then pull up.
Gabriele Gersch
on May 23, 2014
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I agree it is wild mustard , pull it now or you will have a lot more next year!
Cynthia Penzien
on May 23, 2014
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rhapeseed
Erica W
on May 23, 2014
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Viberium
Lorraine Q
on May 23, 2014
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This is wild mustard. It can be seen growing in fields. It is a weed, enjoy then remove.
K
on May 23, 2014
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Just saying...
Melissa W
on May 23, 2014
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it's whatever you want it to be,beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Joedean Small
on May 23, 2014
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Don't matter what it is it's beautiful
Kathy D
on May 23, 2014
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I have this growing around my mailbox, very pretty.
Mary N
on May 23, 2014
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It a weed and very invasive. If you let it get started, you'll have it everywhere.
D C
on May 23, 2014
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it is just mustard- can be left to cover your entire yard or just pulled up before the flowers drop and spill a zillion seeds - :)
Shirley WIlliams
on May 23, 2014
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If you like it, it's a plant, if you don't like it, it's a weed even if it's a rose.
Stacey1957
on May 23, 2014
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It's a weed if you don't want it there!!
Christie Roberts
on May 23, 2014
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Its and aggressive weed! erradicate now!
Accentuations!
on May 23, 2014
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Wild mustard plant attacts honey bees get to have for pollinating
Penny
on May 23, 2014
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The difference between a weed and a flower is a persons perspective.
Sheila Utton-Robbins
on May 23, 2014
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I have some in my garden. Its pretty so I leave it. Has been there two years now and so far has not spread. I will remove the ones I don't want. I love the yellow in the Spring before the other flowers come out. I like Dandelions too so dont go by me.
Janice Schaub
on May 23, 2014
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If it has blooms and you like it, it's a flower. If you don't like it, it's a weed!! Sorry, I have no idea what it may be.
Charli R
on May 23, 2014
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It's a very invasive weed that might have some bad effects on animals. Check with forest service. If it is what I think it is, can kill animals.
Nancy Tietje
on May 23, 2014
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it is wild mustard and we literally have acres of it around us
Christine Sullivan
on May 23, 2014
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I had this pop up in my flower garden too, its beautiful and it has not been invasive, this is the third year it has come up.
Bev Stasicky
on May 23, 2014
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The first clue that it may be a weed is that it grows really fast!
Nell
on May 23, 2014
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Looks like wild mustard. It's edible and pretty, but the seeds can cause gastro-intestinal problems for animals Here's a link to the wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinapis_arvensis
Teri
on May 23, 2014
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If you didn't put it in your flower bed, then it is a weed
Diane F
on May 23, 2014
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you can cook the leaves up like greens.........i mix it with milk weeds, nettles and pig weeds, and a little salt pork .....
Jeanee Rockweiler
on May 23, 2014
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Wild mustard has long stems, with rounded or jagged leaves at the end, often with many shorter leaves along the lengths of the stem. The leaves can be as small as a quarter or bigger than the palm of your hand.
Barbara R
on May 24, 2014
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It did say you can cook the leaves, personally, I won't...but there are recipes on google!
Barbara R
on May 24, 2014
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Clip the flowers off before they go to seed.
Barbara Niedergerke
on May 24, 2014
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wild mustard. Some don't like it, I find it pretty and agree that flower or weed is in the eye of the beholder.
Nancy Robinson
on May 24, 2014
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Any flowering plant is pretty to me. I've got hundreds of different ones in my yard, from Cherokee Roses to honeysuckles to wild mustard. My dogs don't eat my plants (or weeds) so they don't get sick.
Lynn Lawson
on May 24, 2014
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Looks like Golden rod
Deb P
on May 24, 2014
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It's wild mustard. It's totally edible. But it will take over your whole yard. Put a bag over top the flowers so the seeds don't spread. Then pull it up.
Becky Russ Scott
on May 24, 2014
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it looks like lantana
Nancy Gayle
on May 24, 2014
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we live in the uk and we're surrounded by fields of stuff that looks like this, rape seed, used to extract rapeseed oil.
Liza Nash
on May 24, 2014
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I think it's beautiful. Love some yellow in my beds. Consider yourself blessed.
Denise M
on May 24, 2014
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Mustard, it grows wild in fields here in south Jersey.
Linda Young
on May 24, 2014
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Mustards
LaVerne Paige
on May 24, 2014
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The mustard will spread. Destroy blossoms ASAP. When I was young, I spent my summer days pulling this weed from the potato fields in The County In Maine.
Maxine Goodin
on May 24, 2014
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It is wild mustard, you can eat it. You pull the blossoms off and cook it like you would greens. My grandmother used bacon end pieces, chopped the greens up and cooked them for about an hour or so. Add salt and pepper to taste. However as with any week you will want to pull it up so that it doesn't spread and for sure destroy the blossoms so that they don't pollenate and spread everywhere.
Pamela Jordan
on May 24, 2014
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Here wild mustard is considered invasive. It chokes out the native plants.
Anne Komar Rohrer
on May 24, 2014
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It has a beautiful color but unfortunately is a very invasive weed!
Robin Gilbert
on May 24, 2014
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Pretty or not....it will take over!!!
Michelle Long
on May 24, 2014
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wild mustard, here in Mississippi you see it everywhere in the fields. Acres of it.
Sandij
on May 24, 2014
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Looks like a weed they were talking about this morning on my local ABC news (Tampa) story about starting a Butterfly garden.
Nana Marsha
on May 24, 2014
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Weed or not it sure is pretty. My weeds look like, well....weeds.
Frances Davis
on May 24, 2014
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This is wild mustard, it is a weed because it appears by itself in your garden and then slowly, but steadily covers up the entire area killing all the other plants in the garden. Though it looks quite beautiful it does not allow other flowering plants to survive so you need to stop the seeds from spreading.
Elizabeth Sagarminaga
on May 24, 2014
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Wild mustard! We have huge, beautiful fields of it here in VA but I wouldn't want it in my garden...
Erin Vogt
on May 24, 2014
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Looks like it is time for a little poke salad...wild mustard
Diane Bentley
on May 24, 2014
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Dig it up by the roots and get rid of it! This showed up in my yard and a year later had covered over two acres of land! I have used so many different things to try and kill it, but it still comes back. It has been burned, frozen, Round Up, everything, and now I have to kill off the entire two acres, till and reseed. It is very aggressive and spreads like wildfire.
Theresa Schmehl
on May 24, 2014
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Weed or not it looks great, just plant some flowers around it that graduate down in size and you will have a bouquet look in your flower bed
Sarah Johnson
on May 24, 2014
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It's a weed and your neighbor won't appreciate it.
Kathy Roberts
on May 24, 2014
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Wild mustard. It will spread and take over your garden if you don't get it out of there.
Deb Simmering
on May 24, 2014
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Looks like it reseeds and it will propagate faster than you can say "help" !!
JuJu Dolly
on May 24, 2014
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It could be winter cress. It's one of the first yellow flowers. If it is, it's a wild cousin of broccoli.
Sara W
on May 24, 2014
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Goldenrod?
Gloria Ketter
on May 24, 2014
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They had a field of yellow like this in NewBrunswick. thought they were harvesting weeds but it was Mazola oil, goes to say I haven t been in the area for a while...
Barbara P
on May 24, 2014
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Wild mustard? Looks a little like Verbena.
Morrisa Fancher
on May 24, 2014
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I have the same at my home. Very invasive although very pretty. I'm positive it's not goldenrod but do not know what it is.
Juli Howland
on May 24, 2014
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friend this is wild mustard. It's very invasive, if you really like it then by all means keep it.. but dig it up along with a good root ball and plant in a large pot.. you will still have the beauty of it, yet not have to worry about it spreading and taking over. Enjoy!
Duane Gordon Jr
on May 25, 2014
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Bastard Cabbage 'Is the plant name'- invasive- will soon over run our Bluebonnets.
Myrna Engle
on May 27, 2014
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ARE YOU CRAZY? BASTARD CABBAGE IS THE PLANTS BOTANICAL NAME . LOOK IT UP.
Myrna Engle
on May 27, 2014
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I've done my best. Can your site be to simple to embrace the botanical name?
Myrna Engle
on May 27, 2014
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rapeseed manufactured to produce canola oil , there is no such plant as canola look up rapeseed plant we have fields of it in england some people use it as bio fuel
Felicity Woodruffe
on May 27, 2014
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once it seeds you will get many many plants looks like brocolli or cabbage when they go to seed
Felicity Woodruffe
on May 27, 2014
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Italian lady told me this was wild mustard....pick the tops off before they open and steam them. Put a little salt and pepper and butter. I tried it, it was good and didn't kill me, so must be it's edible. R.Gillow--Del.Co., NY
Momgillow
on May 27, 2014
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Yes some people call rapeseed wild mustard and I too have eaten it many times especially fresh just pick and eat the young stems
Felicity Woodruffe
on May 28, 2014
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Again I will try to type in the name of this plant. Wise me luck. Here we go. Add the letters together and maybe I can fool the site. B-A-S-T-A-R-D cabbage. Look it up. Its a terrible problem, and getting worse each season.
Myrna Engle
on May 28, 2014
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a pretty weed. hehe. If you see it growing along side the road, its wildflowers. If it's in your garden, its a weed. If your kids pick them and give them to you, it's a BOUQUET
Roxy D
on Jun 08, 2014
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That's a good way to look at things, got some vines growing in an area where we planted watermelon seeds grankids and I, but they washed out of the seeding planter rained Hardee than I expected, cuz prefer rain over tap but now think what's growing could be watermelon vine, but could be a weed too, u never know , we will see soon
Sarah Johnson
on Jun 09, 2014
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Rapistrum rugosum is a species of flowering plant in the mustard family known by the common names annual b-a-s-t-a-r-d cabbage,common giant mustard or turnipweed. Funny, it marked my comment as inappropriate and I had to change the name, when this is the common name, as mentioned above.
Wendy Weedles
on Jun 09, 2014
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That's why my reply was turned down. They sure are afraid we'll be inappropriate.
Myrna Engle
on Jun 10, 2014
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Well, that B word IS in the Bible... along with some others
Jootsie Sivad
on Jun 10, 2014
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IF YOU LIKE IT, IT'S A FLOWER! IF NOT, IT'S A WEED!
Pamela Jordan
on Jun 11, 2014
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Rapita este o planta industriala din care se extrage un ulei foart fin ptr. industria mecanica fina..
Teo
on Dec 28, 2014
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