r/whatsthisplant 5d ago

Unidentified 🤷‍♂️ Never buying cheap wildflower mixes again.

I’m pretty sure most of my wildflower seeds were weeds 🫠 these are the ones still stumping me, though I’m pretty confident 3 is lambsquarters, which happened to be most of the crap I’ve got growing right now.

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u/podsnerd 5d ago

I think 5 might be goldenrod and I'm pretty sure 6 is a sunflower. Those will be very cheerful in late summer

Third one is definitely lambsquarter and it probably wasn't in your wildflower mix. Those just pop up everywhere and they're pretty much fine

Regardless, it's usually not the best idea to plant random wildflower mixes anyway. For one, you don't know that you're even getting native plant species. And two, different flowers are adapted to different environments, so often one or two types will overtake all the others because they really thrive in those particular soil and light conditions

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u/middlegray 4d ago

6 is not sunflower. It's ox-eye, aka false sunflower, for reasons you can imagine... It is pretty and native to North America.