A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The Plants and Flowers Forum Mystery Plants? Tall mystery - not Chinese Rhubarb

Anybody know what this tall (approx 5 foot) plant is? Reminds me a bit of Giant Chinese Rhubarb, but it's a bit different. Would like to ID ASAP because it's on one of our garden tour gardens this weekend.

Thanks for any suggestions!



Sandy

Bears britches, gunnera, elephant ears. Try google searching those and check out images.

Thanks, but not quite yet! I'm going to try and get some better pictures.

That's a Giant Hogweed plant...

It's an invasive weed that can reach from 6 to 15 ft tall..

I never even noticed the clicky picture until now. It looked like one of our name buttons.
Now that I have, disregard the rest of my post up there. It isn't any of them. Going to google Tamara's suggestion now.
And I would agree that that is what it is. I would get rid of it immediately if it grew here from my readings.

Nope, not giant hogweed! The leaves are not as serrated. I haven't been able to get back out there to take a better picture.

There are different varieties in the Hogweed family.

Be careful because if you get the sap on your skin then sunlight hits it...you'll get a rash and blisters within 48 hours.

OK - it appears to be Cow Parsnip, which IS a member of the hogweed family!

It sure looked like it to me. When I googled up images they have a wide variety of leaf shape.