Weed ID?

[Football Hunter]

Deer seem to be eating it,wish It would overtake all the mint,I have a bumber crop of mint this year!!

 

[PickettSFHunter]

Im in a Weed ID class right now but am just learning so take this for what its worth. If you can find a spine on the stems near a node then I would call that spiny amaranth. If no spines, then redroot pigweed. Again, just my guess.

 

[Football Hunter]

yeah,its has spines or thorns,its pretty nasty looking really

 

[Football Hunter]

Deer seem to just nip the ends off

 

[jfarm65]

Careless weed

 

[Chaneylake]

if its pigweed, you need to dig up plant and haul it away, the pigweed in west tennessee is resistant to roundup and is taking over some areas, approximately 200,000 seed per mature plant

 

[Football Hunter]

if its pigweed, you need to dig up plant and haul it away, the pigweed in west tennessee is resistant to roundup and is taking over some areas, approximately 200,000 seed per mature plant

Only have one small area of it in one plot,Ill spray some gly on it,see what happens

 

[PickettSFHunter]

Redroot Pigweed doesnt have spines so rules that out. Do a google image search of spiny amaranth.

 

[catman529]

It is spiny pigweed (Amaranthus spinosus) and is one of the worst culprits in my garden. Get rid of it quick, it will drop thousands of seeds.

Pigweed and Amaranth are the same thing...

Edit: here is some useful info - http://www.extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/BP/WS-44-W.pdf

 

[PickettSFHunter]

Spiny amaranth and spiny pigweed are the same plant. I hadnt heard it called spiny pigweed but it is!

 

[catman529]

Spiny amaranth and spiny pigweed are the same plant. I hadnt heard it called spiny pigweed but it is!

it deserves the name Pigweed in my garden, it's like wild pigs and you can't get rid of it. You should see the carpet of it in the spring after the ground has been tilled and millions of seeds are turned up....

 

[Quailman]

If you can find a spine on the stems near a node then I would call that spiny amaranth. If no spines, then redroot pigweed. Again, just my guess.

You would be correct!

 

[PickettSFHunter]

If you can find a spine on the stems near a node then I would call that spiny amaranth. If no spines, then redroot pigweed. Again, just my guess.

You would be correct!

Hey I think I need a job with NRCS lol

 

[Chaneylake]

if its pigweed, you need to dig up plant and haul it away, the pigweed in west tennessee is resistant to roundup and is taking over some areas, approximately 200,000 seed per mature plant

Only have one small area of it in one plot,Ill spray some gly on it,see what happens

we have been able to kill some of it in the fall with gly, at the same time its now a mature plant, I wonder what the seeds will do

 

[catman529]

if its pigweed, you need to dig up plant and haul it away, the pigweed in west tennessee is resistant to roundup and is taking over some areas, approximately 200,000 seed per mature plant

Only have one small area of it in one plot,Ill spray some gly on it,see what happens

we have been able to kill some of it in the fall with gly, at the same time its now a mature plant, I wonder what the seeds will do

the seeds will come up in the thousands next spring, I guarantee it, unless you use a lot of pre-emergent or something. If the ground is tilled it's even worse because every time you till it will turn up new seeds.

 

[Football Hunter]

Actually,since deer eat it Im not that worried,but the da$%^&& MINT can go!

 

[PickettSFHunter]

Actually,since deer eat it Im not that worried,but the da$%^&& MINT can go!

Do you have a picture of this mint so I can try to ID it?

 

[Football Hunter]

I posted it once ,let me see if I can find it,it sucks,and is everywhere

 

[BSK]

My food plots, especially the better soil ones, are taken over every summer by Perilla Mint, also known as Beefsteak Weed:

http://www.ppws.vt.edu/scott/weed_id/prjfr.htm

 

[catman529]

do deer not eat perilla?

 

[BSK]

do deer not eat perilla?

Deer rarely eat any plants in the mint family.

 

[catman529]

do deer not eat perilla?

Deer rarely eat any plants in the mint family.

seems like nothing does, except humans

 

[Boone 58]

we have it , but never noticed any significant browsing on it by deer..............will look harder. Not on the highly preferred me thinks.

 

[a retrohillbilly]

Toxic to cattle