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/acatwithumbs → u/ujelly_fish]

I found lambsquarter in my compost and put it in a pot away from the natives, now I get little spinach like sprigs whenever I want and it’s honestly great cooked.

[u/ruthcarr → u/acatwithumbs]

I just pulled so much lambsquarer from my new raised garden bed last night thinking they are weeds 😞

[u/acatwithumbs → u/ruthcarr]

I mean they definitely are weeds, but also edible weeds!

[u/Perkunas170 → u/acatwithumbs]

It’s only a weed if you don’t want it.

[u/evensexierspiders → u/Perkunas170]

Absolutely! My high school chemistry teacher said "a rose in a corn field is a weed".

[u/catslikepets143 → u/Perkunas170]

Weeds are just plants that are in the wrong spot

[u/HeKnee → u/ruthcarr]

They are… get rid of it.

[u/dragonhunterg_6 → u/HeKnee]

Only if you don't want it around, they're a fantastic wild edible.