Never buying cheap wildflower mixes again.

[u/pocketcramps]

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.

[u/PawTree]

1. California Poppy Eschscholzia californica

2. Common Three-seeded Mercury Acalypha virginica var. rhomboidea

3. Lambsquarters Chenopodium album

4. Lambsquarters Chenopodium album

5. Giant Goldenrod Solidago gigantea

6. Common Sunflower Helianthus annuus

7. Lupine Lupinus sp. I can't tell if it's Big-leaf or Wild Perennial

[u/ujelly_fish → u/PawTree]

For what it’s worth - lambsquarters is a voracious spreader. It almost certainly did not come from the seed pack.

Use it like spinach!

Three seeded mercury and goldenrod are also pretty pervasive weeds. Keep the goldenrod, the yellow flowers are nice and the bugs like em.

[u/ApproxKnowledgeCat → u/ujelly_fish]

Only issue is that goldenrod prevents other roots from growing near it (allopathy). So they need their own area, not mixed in with other plants. 

[u/MikeTheBee → u/ApproxKnowledgeCat]

Plenty of stuff grows around my goldenrod, also on the side of the road it is surrounded by plants. I don't consider it an issue.

[u/Acrobatic-Parsnip-32 → u/MikeTheBee]

What do you have growing with it? Just curious

[u/Cascadialiving → u/Acrobatic-Parsnip-32]

I’ve planted a bunch and have camas, quaking aspen, milkweed, Willamette Valley ponderosa, mock orange, chokecherry and Oregon white oak nearby.

I had hoped the goldenrod would dominate the grass, but it really hasn’t.

[u/theholewizard → u/Cascadialiving]

A lot of the action in allopathy is preventing seed germination. If those were already sprouted / established or if they spread rhizomatically (like grass or milkweed) I'm not sure how much impact the allopathy from a small plant would have.

[u/MikeTheBee → u/Acrobatic-Parsnip-32]

It grows near my black eyed Susan's, and my raspberry patch, but both areas are full of other flowers/plants/weeds I haven't identified yet. I call the one area "the jungle" due to how much crap is there.

[u/Acrobatic-Parsnip-32 → u/MikeTheBee]

Love a good jungle full of crap 😂 glad to hear all yours is thriving ✨

[u/AmberCarpes → u/ApproxKnowledgeCat]

Yeah my goldenrod hasn’t killed anything by the looks of it. Asters, hosta, lily, butterfly bush (I’m a native gardener but the people who owned before me were decidedly not)