Invasive flower / vine with yellow flower ..Photo's added update

[2468Gardeningisgr8]

Okay I cut the "bulb" in half....and it looks like a potato

inside??????

 

[momofdrew]

I'd bring it to your nearest extention service {or Canadian equalivent???} they may know what it is...If it is invasive they may know how to fight it...and may want to know how she got it...cant have city compost dropping unwanted weeds all over the place...

 

[TillinWithMyPeeps]

Could it possibly be Jerusalem Artichoke?

http://tinyfarmblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/fal2007_jerusalem_artichoke_flowers.jpg

http://tinyfarmblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/fal08_jerusalem-artichoke-cold-harvest.jpg

http://windowboxherbs.50megs.com/jerusalem artichoke.htm

 

[Greensage45]

Hi,

I think I know what it is; I have a ton of it in my yard and it is a mess to get rid of.

Although my version does an off-white flower the leaves look identical and when you describe the tendril like root to the bulb it is just what I have. I hate it. The bulb will hide yards away from the plant and now matter how much digging or how much pulling it comes back with vigor.

It is called "Alkali Mallow". Here are some pictures on this link. See if the leaf does not look exactly like that.

http://calphotos.berkeley.edu/cgi/img_query?where-genre=Plant&where-taxon=Malvella+leprosa

Wishing you luck that you never have to see what I have to see in my yarden with this nasty plant.

Ron

 

[beefy]

wow. never seen that weed before.

 

[aquarose]

Okay I cut the "bulb" in half....and it looks like a potatohttp://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/uploads/4910_kathys_weedapril_2009_004.jpg inside??????

I wonder if it is edible?

 

[2468Gardeningisgr8]

Okay I cut the "bulb" in half....and it looks like a potatohttp://www.theeasygarden.com/forum/uploads/4910_kathys_weedapril_2009_004.jpg inside??????

I wonder if it is edible?

If you want to come over to my place I can set up a dinner date at my friends and we will let you taste it first ...ha ha ha !!! If it was edible I think she could feed a family of five ....for years....

I am on a mission now....thanks everyone I am going to pass on the information and see if it matches her weed.....

 

[jlmann]

It sounds (but doesn't look) like kudzu. That stuff is a menace here in the south. It's edible but I don't know... lots of people graze livestock in it. Maybe your friend needs a goat or two.

 

[Hattie the Hen]

Hi there

Doesn't kudzu have a more elongated rhizome/ fruit/ thingy ( my brain can't think of the right word tonight). The description & the photograph are rounder.

If it's a kind of mallow a lot of them are edible.

:rose Hattie :rose

 

[Rusty]

I'm no help because I don't know what they are called, just that they grow in Florida. They used to drive me crazy 'cause when you pull them--they STINK big time. LOL we just called them "Stink Vine". They are very plentiful and spread like crazy!

Rusty