Is this a noxious weed?

[Angus 1895]

Near Portland Oregon.

looks like it’s in the cockleburr family/ or thistle to me

 

[FarmerDan]

I've never been to Portland Oregon, but here in Virginia it looks like velvetleaf. Is it a noxious weed?? I guess it depends on who's defining what's noxious. Is it invasive? Is there a difference between noxious and invasive? Native or non-native? I think you can get a bunch of different answers depending on local /state and/or federal regulation - if regulation is important to the answer. Then, outside of that there's local terminology tradition.

 

[Bill]

It's from China if that helps with the definition

I’ve gotten it in my beans the last few years and suspect it came from the same bag as the bean seed.

 

[Barndog56]

That's called butterprint in central Illinois. As a kid I got paid to walk beans and get rid of it. We used a beanhook and could cover 6 rows at a time, 3 on each side. Beans were over waste high so there was no stepping over the row.

 

[T-Max]

We call it velvetleaf. It doesn’t seem to spread too awfully fast, but I have never seen it browsed. I do know it laughed off both Liberty and Enlist Duo in my beans this year. They get pulled by hand.


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[goatman]

Grew up calling it buttonweed. But it is velvetleaf. It's in the seed bank from when people raised hogs on dirt. Doves like the seeds.

 

[Angus 1895]

Thanks!

I will inform the landowner the deal.