New yard new weeds!

[Scooter]

We move next week and I am trying to identify all the weeds in the new yard. I think I have some identified correctly, please correct me if I am wrong.

Weeds I think I know

1. wild geranium

2. white clover

3. dandelion

4. black medic

Weeds I am not sure about

5. Is this also dandelion? It looks prickly

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Sorry there are so many. There are a lot of weeds! I have more pics of all of them if needed.
Thanks!

 

[Edna]

#6 is broadleaf plantain. Lucky you!! It's a great tort food.

 

[Scooter]

Edna thank you, I thought it might be but was not sure.

 

[Tom]

1. Don't know.
2. Yep, clover.
3. Yep, dandelion.
4. Not sure. Looks like oxalis. If it has 1" long little trumpet shaped, yellow flowers, then it oxalis. NOT good to feed.
5. Sow thistle. Good to feed.
6. Plantain. Good stuff.
7. ?
8. ?
9. ?
10. More sow thistle.
11. Some other type of thistle. I feed it to mine in small amounts once in a while.
12. ?

 

[Scooter]

Thanks Tom, I'm not sure what type of flowers #4 gets, they are yellow but I'm not sure about the shape, I will check.

 

[Kristina]

#4 doesn't look like oxalis. Oxalis has hear shaped leaves, it is either black medic or burr clover. Black medic grows taller, burr clover spreads out along the ground.

Both are safe as far as I know.

 

[Scooter]

Thanks Kristina, this one seems to be spreading out and staying low.

 

[Edna]

#9 looks like a weed I have here, but don't know the name. It starts out with a daisy-looking rosette of leaves, then the new growth is that springy yellow-green. Anyway, it's very invasive and persistant. The leaves are sticky, flowers yellow. I've been waiting for someone to name it. The rancher who first pointed it out to me called it sticky weed, and I've also heard it called ugly weed, and it's both. If torts like it and it's good for them, that would be good news.

 

[Yvonne G]

12 is vetch - edible
3 is NOT dandelion. Looks like one of the sow thistles
you are correct on #4 black medic

 

[Scooter]

is black medic edible?

 

[Yvonne G]

The foliage is edible to mamalian herbivores, so I think it would be ok for tortoises too.

Sticky weed is edible: http://www.torrens.org.uk/FFF/plants/GaliumAparine.html

 

[rharr21]

Some of these are already identified and I'll give the others a try.

1. Wild geranium (Geranium carolinianum)
2. White clover (Trifolium repens)
3. Asiatic Hawksbeard (Youngia japonica)
4. Black Medic (Medicago lupulina)
5. Spiney Sowthistle (Sonchus sp.)
6. Broadleaf Plantain (Plantago major)
7. Carpetweed (Mollugo sp.)
8.probably Florida Betony (Stachys floridanum) if it has white tubers and a square stem
9. possibly a seedling of Groundsel Bush (Baccharis halimifolia)
10. Spiney Sowthistle (Sonchus sp.)
11. Spiney Sowthistle (Sonchus sp.)
12. Narrowleaf Vetch (Vicia sativa)
13. probably Florida Betony (Stachys floridanum) if it has white tubers and a square stem