Help ID a plant for me. ADDED a couple more plant Pic I need help with

[damummis]

I am completely stumped with this plant. It is growing out behind DH'd shed/garage. The leaves are fuzzy, it leafs out from the middle and I have NO idea what it is.

 

[journey11]

It's a mullein, I think. They send up a tall flower stalk with yellow blooms along it. They are wild, but my grandma deliberately planted some in her wildflower garden. They are neat. They have an herbal use, but I can't remember what exactly.

ETA: Actually, I am second guessing myself now....maybe that plant doesn't look fuzzy enough to be mullein.

Ok, I'm leaning now more toward burdock.... http://ipm.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/arfmi.htm

In which case, you better dig 'er up before it makes burrs! Also medicinal, the root can be eaten as a saute veggie or dried and used in tea for a liver cleanser.

 

[lesa]

Burdock it is- dig it up now and it won't be a problem....They are nasty when full grown and have a million seeds.

 

[digitS']

I had both thoughts when I saw the pictures, too!

Mullein lays out a little flatter.

Yeah, I think it is burdock - OUT with it!!

Steve

 

[patandchickens]

Common mullein is not so ruffly as that, and the upper surface would be heavily woolly-white too, not just the lower surface. (There are local/regional escapes of some other big mulleins e.g. olympic mullein and I am less familiar with those... but I just do not think it's mullein)

I too think it is burdock.


Pat

 

[ducks4you]

Agreed! I HATE those things--I hack at them in the summer, instead of breaking dishes when I'm angry.

 

[Chickie'sMomaInNH]

probably burdock. if you don't have any use for the root in one of the recommendations i would pull it quickly before it takes over!
the only online site i could find a pic of the leaf.
http://www.horizonherbs.com/pilot.asp?pg=burdock_seed

 

[damummis]

I totally agree.

Now what is this??? I am going around the new yard trying to identify all the plants.

And this??? It looks like a little evergreen but it is not a tree. My grandmother use to put them in wreaths.

 

[patandchickens]

First one seems too upright (and early) for wood strawberry so I am going to say Wood Anemone; second one seems to be a clubmoss.

Pat

 

[nittygrittydirtdigger]

First one looks like Virginia Creeper to me.....don't know about the second one.