Weeds in my yard
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Goodness. It’s hard to identify when there are multiple plants in one photo.
The first photo has only one plant in it. It looks like henbit or dead nettle to me. I’m not very good with those two. One is good and the other not so much so I’ll leave it to someone else to identify.
There is a bunch of stuff in the second photo. One of them is shephard’s purse, safe. Here is a photo of it, you can see the little heart-shaped seeds growing on it:
I see a bunch of sow thistle/dandelion in your photos; they are the majority of your weeds. They are all safe but I can’t pull them out by photo. Generally these plants have leaves with an identifiable arrowhead shape, at least on the leaves at the bottom of the plant. And they all have a yellow flower that will make you think of a dandelion. I’d have to see them individually to tell you which is which though.
There is filaree in there, safe. It’s the lacy looking one. Here is a picture of it:
Even though I can’t call each of the dandelion relatives out, I don’t see anything in there besides the plant in the first photo that doesn’t look safe.
The first photo has only one plant in it. It looks like henbit or dead nettle to me. I’m not very good with those two. One is good and the other not so much so I’ll leave it to someone else to identify.
There is a bunch of stuff in the second photo. One of them is shephard’s purse, safe. Here is a photo of it, you can see the little heart-shaped seeds growing on it:
I see a bunch of sow thistle/dandelion in your photos; they are the majority of your weeds. They are all safe but I can’t pull them out by photo. Generally these plants have leaves with an identifiable arrowhead shape, at least on the leaves at the bottom of the plant. And they all have a yellow flower that will make you think of a dandelion. I’d have to see them individually to tell you which is which though.
There is filaree in there, safe. It’s the lacy looking one. Here is a picture of it:
Even though I can’t call each of the dandelion relatives out, I don’t see anything in there besides the plant in the first photo that doesn’t look safe.
Thank you so much! Next time I’ll post them individually. I think the first one is henbit. I hope that’s the good one because she loves eating all of these! My husband was worried that the big pokey “dandelion” types might be too harsh for her, but she really loves chomping those big crunchy leaves.
We’ve had our tort for about a year. She mostly eats stuff like this everyday, along with grass, and sometimes romaine, turnip greens, aloe, or cactus. I hope I’m not leaving anything out of her diet that she needs, or over doing it on the weeds. Thanks again for the help!
We’ve had our tort for about a year. She mostly eats stuff like this everyday, along with grass, and sometimes romaine, turnip greens, aloe, or cactus. I hope I’m not leaving anything out of her diet that she needs, or over doing it on the weeds. Thanks again for the help!
Your tortoise has extremely tough jaws; don’t worry about weeds being more than she can handle.
