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Mar 9th, 2008 at 06:05 PM
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I have this in every flower bed, every pot, every natural area, everywhere EVERY year. I hate it. It takes forever to get rid of it and it's EVERY year.
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idk,but have you ever had a weed with weird leaves & when u touch it your hand gets itchy???I think they're called nettles since I heard it before;not the weeds you're talkin' about.
Waiting for fall...
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It looks like henbit dead nettle(Lamium amplexicaule)to me.
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Twinkie the Kid
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I think its pretty! alot of floridas flowers are weeds and i even have some planted starflower gorws wild around here it has the faintest lilac scent... i love it! along with sugarbush tree and the palmetto palms...
pleaseee... Betty Crocker aint got nothing on me =)
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I think that's it and it's horrible.
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apparently it's a winter annual and dies in the summer
Helping the world one seed at a time When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. Mary Ann LaPensee
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Hot Rod
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Is that by any chance Purple Purella/ I had some of it ...... Came from texas.
PS... My horse isn't here, this is my Nitemare..
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The Jedi
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I think it's Purple Dead-Nettle or Lamium purpurea.
Terry
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Twinkie the Kid
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i still think that its pretty!
pleaseee... Betty Crocker aint got nothing on me =)
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Definitely Henbit (Lamium), and it's very invasive. I have it also and if I don't pull it out as soon as I see it, it spreads everywhere. There are some perennial lamiums that are better behaved, but can still spread by seed.
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Twinkie the Kid
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i wonder will it grow in florida?
pleaseee... Betty Crocker aint got nothing on me =)
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PS... My horse isn't here, this is my Nitemare..
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YOu are in florida,dont wonder too far,you'll get lost. Well,I live in California,so I should've fallen off a cliff by now.
Waiting for fall...
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Did anyone ever say to you , MY NAME IS CIFF, drop over sometime?
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Twinkie the Kid
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pleaseee... Betty Crocker aint got nothing on me =)
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toposh
A cliff is a huge drop ..... now you get it ?
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Twinkie the Kid
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i got that part i meant "YOu are in florida, dont wonder too far, you'll get lost." lol...
pleaseee... Betty Crocker aint got nothing on me =)
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Hot Rod
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YOu said I WOnder...... Ole saying in penna., ( wonders means moving around aimlessly) you could get lost. Joke of cours here.
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Is that by any chance Purple Purella/ I had some of it ...... Came from texas. Not Purella. I have that and like it. This is a horrible weed.
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Twinkie the Kid
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Oooohhh lol. Heck i can get lost just a few blocks from my house... im bad with directions and maps and what not... I have gotten lost a few time already iw as walking and i had my cd player and i was listening to music looking at the road for cars u know and i never looked at the road signs and stuff so i had to call and have someone pic me up! haha
pleaseee... Betty Crocker aint got nothing on me =)
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If I wondered out of my county I would get lost.
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Twinkie the Kid
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lol so would i until i found my way to indiana i know how to get around there...
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it IS purple deadnettle and yes, the flowers are pretty (well, they're purple, so of course they're pretty!!) and yes, it IS quite nasty stuff that takes over quickly and is very hard to get rid of.
this and creeping charlie are the only things with purple flowers i wish i'd never seen!!
Zone 6b
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The old folks around here call that heal's all. My Grandma rose used to brew a tea from it to cure everything from a cough to "the dysentary" as she called it. I think its a sweet little flower. It fills my ditchline every year and I just love it (it gives me an excuse to hold off on weedeating until it dies back).
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It's certainly colorful and interesting. I like some of the ' weeds' that come up in my flower beds. If they are not too invasive and aren't choking out any of my other plants, I leave them be.
Cricket
Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it. ~Russel Baker
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That looks like the dead nettle I always confuse with Catnip (I don't know why I do I just do) So I think I'm going to agree with the others, Dead nettle
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If you call , how do you know where to say your are????????
Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
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The Man
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The old folks around here call that heal's all. My Grandma Rose used to brew a tea from it to cure everything from a cough to "the dysentary" as she called it. I think its a sweet little flower. It fills my ditchline every year and I just love it (it gives me an excuse to hold off on weedeating until it dies back). Heal all or self heal does look similar but is a different thing, prunella vulgaris (or common prunella)It is very useful and can cure just about anything from a fever to a strep throat. My mom makes tea with it when any of us get sick. Definitely a heal all!
Last edited by kennyso; Apr 19th, 2008 at 06:19 PM.
Helping the world one seed at a time When weeding, the best way to make sure you are removing a weed and not a valuable plant is to pull on it. If it comes out of the ground easily, it is a valuable plant. Mary Ann LaPensee
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