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Can anyone identify this?

post #1 of 6
5/27/11 at 10:23am
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I have tons of tomato plants that reappeared this year so I was thinking these may be pepper plants? 

 

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post #2 of 6
5/27/11 at 7:25pm

Looks like pigweed (amaranth relative) to me.  ???

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post #3 of 6
5/27/11 at 9:03pm

Sorry.  Mis-ID.  Is it a smartweed?  Look at the stem where the leave attaches.  Does it have a knobby bit?  (Pardon my exacting botanical jargon....)   That would indicate a polygonum relative.  Are the plants completely separate? or are they connected by an underground root?  

     They are not peppers, nor any other tomato relative.  (And it's not pigweed, what was I thinking?) 

Some kinds of perennial smartweeds can be hard to eliminate, so I would make sure that you have a positive ID on this one.

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post #4 of 6
6/3/11 at 8:33pm

I agree.  Not peppers.  Looks like pigweed or pokeweed?

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post #5 of 6
6/3/11 at 9:15pm

Pigweed looks more like an oversized lamb's quarters.

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post #6 of 6
6/4/11 at 3:37am

It looks like smartweed to me, because of the dark areas in the middle of the leaves.

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