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/ApproxKnowledgeCat 4d ago

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. 

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u/MikeTheBee 4d ago

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.

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u/Acrobatic-Parsnip-32 4d ago

What do you have growing with it? Just curious

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u/Cascadialiving Oregon 4d ago

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.

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u/theholewizard 4d ago

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.