plant ID

[kabic]

I have this plant growing in my clover. This plot was a brushy area that was brushed hogged and then frost seeded the next spring.

I will probably mow it to see if I can control it that way, but am curious to what it is.

 

[wiscwhip]

Looks a bit like mullein rosette's to me.

 

[Native Hunter]

X 2 - mullein

 

[kabic]

Thanks guys. I just read about mullein rosette and did see some flower stalks last year. I'll have to try to keep them under control this year.

 

[kabic]

Since it is a biannual plant... the second year it gets the tall flower stalks like in the background of this picture.

 

[wiscwhip]

One good way to control them if you don't have too many is to just pull them by hand. Try to get a large portion of the root with it and it will be less likely to come back in the future. It helps to use a spade to get under the plant to pry it out of the soil. They liked to encroach on our plots also, we found that mowing(we used a weedeater on some also) them just after the tall stalks start to appear will also set them back and they eventually will die.

 

[phil@thesidehill]

yep...i have them around the margins of some of my plots. I usually do like wiscwhip said and shovel them up. I have hit them with gly in the past with marginal results. I shoveled up about a dozen or so last week.

 

[nwmn]

Looks like a plant that would give a guy a rash...ugly.

 

[mikmaze]

leaves are fuzzy like a peach, don't give a rash, actually make decent tp in a pinch.

 

[nwmn]

Ha, it looks like a charmin weed!:D

 

[Doug Galloway]

Yep common mullein....sever the root just below soil surface and she is done....if there are not many just leave for the 'tap-root' effect upon soil.

BTW....in the brushy borders of the Ozark pastures.....I have seen mullein rosettes the size of #2 washtubs!

 

[kabic]

Yellow Rocket?

 

[kabic]

Whatever this plant was I mowed most of them last weekend. Probably are a few more I need to cut down by hand.

Yellow Rocket?

 

[wiscwhip]

And dandelions!;)

 

[kabic]

Yes , there is some "diversity" in this plot, but the deer don't seem to mind.