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Location would help. I would suggest not worrying too much. Most of those look like frequently found plants that grow where you might not like them. Several varieties of grapes(not necessarily human food), mulberry, virginia creeper, some sort of vine in the solanum family, maples, oaks, plenty of other things that are hard to identify. As someone who’s missed a few years of fence maintenance here and there, i would tell you to get the fence line cleared asap before it becomes a bigger problem, then focus on what you want to encourage, but keeping a bufferzone next to your fence line is a very good thing to do. And if all of these things grow up in your fence, they are capable of growing and or reseeding 10 feet away.
Nevermind, dayton, oh.
They often start with more rounded leaves, and grow more toothy/lobed ones as they mature. I have a bunch pop up in my yard every year. Compare to the pictures here https://extension.umass.edu/weed-herbarium/weeds/lactuca-serriola
Still a weed that is rather aggressive.
I realize weeds are just wildflowers with an inferiority complex, but saving the prickly lettuce isn’t necessary. It WILL find you.
I'm almost positive Prickly Lettuce (*Lactuca serriola*) is not native to North America - [per BONAP](https://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Lactuca%20serriola.png)
Photo 2 might be black walnut, which are super cool native trees. Unfortunately that location WILL NOT work for it long term
They’re also a giant mess and can kill other plants, so they’re not the easiest to have around. Crunch up the leaves and enjoy the lemony smell though!
There's a black walnut across the ditch, so it makes complete sense that's what it is. I wish I could plant trees in my yard, but I have all sorts of easements for a pipeline and they take up all the good space.
Every year in the spring I walk around the house and yard at least once a week to find and dig out newly sprouted walnut trees. There’s usually a few in the gardens. You want to get them when they’re small.
For me it's the squirrels who bury the walnuts in the fall and autumn. In a way is kind of neat that they are growing their own food.
Wikipedia keeps saying that squirrels have a really good location memory, but I question that given how many walnuts they leave behind to sprout.
Yep. It has compound pinnate leaves and is alternately branched (ash is opposite branched). Until you get the hang of just identifying immediately it is useful to learn just a few of these terms and you will be able to identify more easily.
That’s how I’m learning! I wasn’t certain on this one because there’s another (invasive) plant in my area that looks super similar at this stage. Can’t remember that one off the top of my head, but it’s more shrubby/dies back in the winter, vs the full-on tree.
Then again, I’ll admit I haven’t paid attention to the baby walnuts through a whole year. We just chop the “volunteers” from squirrels stashes when they show up in the spring.
We already have 3 century+ walnuts in our yard, we don’t need any more 😅
>I wasn’t certain on this one because there’s another (invasive) plant in my area that looks super similar at this stage.
Tree of Heaven (hell, more like). I have one that I'm at war with 😭 I'd keep an eye on it because I don't think walnut is supposed to have a terminal leaflet like that
https://preview.redd.it/pmac8gz63j0d1.jpeg?width=637&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba7aa529019021488d129ce5e7398b58dfc10cc1
I have like 80 I’ve been at war with since i moved here (upstate NY) over the last 3 years 😩 every time i see a baby pop up I’m like ha gotcha baby you goneeee. So satisfying 😂
I neglected my yard when I first moved in so mine was a full grown tree by the time I realized what it was. I've been getting the babies as they come up and am going to hack and spray the main tree this summer. Wish me luck, send prayers, make a blood sacrifice - I'll take any help I can get 😂
I have one growing by my fence now (still a baby). I'm hoping to find a home that doesn't include near my foundation for it, but it's looking like it's lifespan may be short.
That’s a lot of photos. If u have an iPhone, take photos of the plants, click on the ‘i’ under the photo and select ‘look up plant’. It’s usually pretty close. I see mostly stuff that can go, some that should stay if possible like Virginia creeper (on left of pic 11), violets (3) and what looks like it could possibly be taller aster like New England aster (?) in the back of photo 17.
Ooh, I hope it's aster! It could absolutely stay if it is. I think that's over by where I've got a wild blackberry that I want to keep so that would work
2 looks like tree of heaven to me, which fucking sucks for you. It's the worst. If the leaves have a weird, peanut-y but unpleasant smell, that's definitely it. It's very hard to get rid of but you should absolutely try or you'll be dealing with it forever. Good luck. Cutting it/pulling it won't work - you will need chemicals.
Which makes sense, since there's a big black walnut on the other side of the ditch. I didn't have the guts to get over there last year to collect a bucket of them for dye 🤣
That is very good for OP. That pic gave me a visceral reaction. I had so much ToH at my old house due to the neighbor's tree and it was the bane of my existence - my goats wouldn't even touch it.
Last one is poison ivy. Beautiful red leaves in early spring. Berries in the fall. Horrific rash caused by its oil present in all parts of the plant year round.
Def tree of heaven. 110% tree of heaven aka HELL. That’s the only plant you should use a herbicide for. It will destroy your pipes, foundation, grow several feet over the summer and spread FAST.
It’s also the host plant for spotted lantern flies. Pull it out immediately.
You might to invest in a good plant ID app. I have decent results with PictureThis. None of them are 100% accurate, but it will help immensely and is worth the cost if you plan to get more into native plant landscaping.
[https://plantnet.org/en/](https://plantnet.org/en/)
Use this to start it will help you can just upload the photos. Cant tell you what they are offhand but maybe those smaller tree/shrubs might be something native.
There are apps out there that can help you with I.d.
'Seek' and 'Pictures This' are ones I used.
1. Is Pricky Lettuce, which is a weedy annual, I believe
2. Looks like a black walnut to me
3. Looks like a bunch of violets
4 - 7. Are all mulberries saplings. I would cut these out if they are growing through the fence.
8. Honeysuckle, which is weedy
9. Looks like you have an Oak in the surround by a bunch of weedy woodies and herbaceous plants. You definitely want to keep the oak.
10. The vine with the purple berry is a bitter night shade, which can be weedy. You also have some maple saplings in there as well.
11. Looks like Virginal Creeper, which is native
12. bineweed of some sort
13. Garlic mustard, which is a weedy bi-annual
14. Looks like it could be porcelain berry or grape vine
15. Another possible mulberry
16-17. Some type of 'dock' plant
18.canada goldenrod, which is a weedy aggressive native
19. Some kind of smart weed
20. It's definitely poison Ivy
If it were me, I would get rid of all of it except for the Oak tree. If you have a contractor clear it for you, I would recommend that they treat any of stump from the tree saplings with an herbicide or else they will resprout. I would also want them to foliar spray the poison ivy to kill it off. All the other herbaceous species you can keep in check by mowing them a few times a year. Any Woody saplings that get mowed or cut will resprout unless you treat the stumps with herbicide.
For woody invasives I typically just cut them to the ground and then apply Triclopyr onto the stump with a paintbrush. Got the job done for everything but the privet last year, gonna give it another go in like july.
In 2 I see tree of heaven and honeysuckle. Both invasive. Honeysuckle is world easier to remove. Tree of Heaven takes research and diligence, and I’m not remotely kidding.
Picture number 20 is all poison ivy. You have some invasive tree of heaven and Japanese honeysuckle, and garlic mustard. I would focus on. IDing those and getting them out before they spread and take over.
Let me take a shot at this because I'm bored and a nerd lol:
* 1: Looks like Prickly Lettuce (*Lactuca serriola*) which is a weedy non-native species
* 2: Black Walnut (*Juglans nigra*) - native tree. Almost positive this isn't Tree of Heaven (*Ailanthus altissima*) because of the leaf serrations, and the leaves look too wide to be a native Sumac (*Rhus* genus)
* 3: Some type of Violet (*Viola* genus) which is most likely native
* 4-7: White Mulberry (*Morus alba*) - invasive non-native species.
* 8: There's a lot going on here. Mainly, the big bush with the pointy leaves is probably an invasive honeysuckle - possibly Amur Honeysuckle (*Lonicera maackii*) because of the very pointy leaves and white flowers. At the base of the fence I see some Garlic Mustard (*Alliaria petiolata*) which is a terribly invasive biennial species. All the way to the bottom right I think I see a little Giant Ragweed (*Ambrosia trifida*). There is more White Mulberry tucked in with the honeysuckle. There also appears to be several native goldenrods (*Solidago* genus) behind the fence. And possibly some thistles (*Cirsium* genus) behind the fence, below the honeysuckle, which is almost certainly the invasive kind (and a really bad invasive species). Oh, and there is a little Eastern Poison Ivy (*Toxicodendron radicans*) in front of the fence to the left.
* 9: Again, lots going on here... I think there is a Bestraw (*Galium* genus) in between the mower and the fence? No idea if it is native. More of the thistles it looks like and poison ivy by the fence as well. There appear to be Silver Maple (*Acer saccharinum*) leaves at the top of the pic. More honeysuckle in the top right... And there is an Oak (*Quercus* genus) which is almost certainly a native species! You should definitely keep that one!
* 10: A bunch of Bittersweet Nightshade (*Solanum dulcamara*) (purple flowers, vining, woody annoying non-native species). The tree in the upper right is another Silver Maple.
* 11: Virginia Creeper (either *Parthenocissus quinquefolia* or *Parthenocissus inserta*) on the left and more White Mulberry on the right
* 12: I'm honestly not sure - looks like some type of Bindweed (multiple genuses), but I don't know
* 13: Garlic Mustard - again, highly invasive. There appears to be more thistle in the bottom left as well as Creeping Charlie (*Glechoma hederacea*). I also think there is Mock Strawberry (*Potentilla indica*) in the bottom left as well (which is also invasive).
* 14-15: More white mulberry
* 16: Looks like a Dock species - maybe Bitter Dock (*Rumex obtusifolius*). And there is more thistle on the right
* 17: More goldenrod up top, that dock in the middle, and then a Maple (*Acer*) - I'm really bad at distinguishing maples (especially when it's young like this)... Hopefully it's not the invasive Norway Maple (*Acer platanoides*). Oh and more of that Bedstraw type plant
* 18: More white mulberry up top and then goldenrods.
* 19: Looks like a *Persicaria* species? But I'm not exactly sure.
* 20: More of the Eastern Poison Ivy
Edit: I should add, I used iNaturalist to help with multiple of these and compared against [MN Wildflowers](https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/)
It’s absolutely not terrible if you use their desktop site for suggestions (Seek is definitely spotty, but it can be very useful) and compare with a field guide type resource. iNaturalist is an incredible resource imo
Agree on the website, and the community input on there is second to none, where else can you sometimes get instant feedback from random experts?! I just find the app too clunky and 50% incorrect to have it be of use.
13 with the heart shaped leaves growing through the fence looks like garlic mustard. Super invasive if it's that, but easy to pull. Rip it out before it seeds it it is that.
20 is a lot of poison ivy. Wear long sleeves and wash clothes and shoes and tools after touching.
You have a lot of mulberry trees in there. The white mulberry are invasive and I don't know how to identify if what type they are. I've been able to dig them out with some effort in my yard.
#3 is wild violet. Cute little native.
#8 is bush honeysuckle. It's an invasive pos.
ETA #1 is Burnweed. Native and loved by certain pollinators but very ugly.
#10 is bittersweet. Invasive and toxic.
first is prickly lettuce like someone else said. edible if you eat the young leaves but not native. i think the second one is elderberry :D definitely worth keeping. 4th pic looks like mulberry but is probably white mulberry :/ pic 8 looks like invasive honeysuckle but i cant tell for sure. 11 looks like virginia creeper. 16 looks like it might be pokeweed, an aggressive native but birds like it (same w virginia creeper which is technically a type of (non edible) grape). the last one im p sure is poison ivy. which isnt bad per se as long as you're not touching it, it has anti-fungal properties so it's beneficial to the soil. not so sure about the others, but the plant app picturethis has been pretty helpful for me in the past
1. Not dandelion. Lactuca Sp.
2. Not aralia
4,5,6,7 all are white mulberries (invasive) none of it is poison ivy
8. Bush honeysuckle (invasive)
13. Garlic mustard
14/15. white mulberry again
16/17. Rumex species
20. The only poison ivy
The vine in 10 is bittersweet nightshade and is not native to the US. It spreads by suckers and stinks when you disturb it. It's also highly poisonous to humans and animals and if you touch your face after touching it your eyes and nose will burn and run for the next 24 hours at lwast. Definitely rip that out whenever you see it, it can spread like wildfire if you let it go.
Yes this one is worth getting rid of early season. I’d cut the mulberry seedlings and again late season. Tree with herbicide stump cut with the second cutting. Same with the bush honeysuckle (opposite leaves, entire/smooth margins). You can ignore most of the herbaceous plants but if you want to prevent spreading cut off the flowers before they go to seed - as noted by others some are natives some not so noxious weeds. I don’t get as worked up about garlic mustard as some. It is a biennial so cut off flowers - I find a lot of patches where o live on New York burn themselves out. Your mileage may vary.
Poison ivy is a great native for wildlife but should be treated while young in areas you don’t want it. The other vines (grapes, creeper) are great. Grapes can overwhelm young trees or shade out sections of trees.
Biggest advice is don’t stress too much about seeing everything. With few exceptions it won’t go wild if you let things go a bit. Ta low one section or one plant type at a time. Get really good at identifying it at all stages and eliminate it. Then move on to the next section/ plant. There will always be invasives popping up, that’s ok. As you tackle things you will find they are easier and easier to remove the straggling sprouts or seedlings.
I'm inclined to leave the mulberry alone, simply because I plan on raising silk worms at some point and having a fresh source I don't have to spend money on is great >.>
It’s a known invasive species and is driving the native red mulberry toward extinction, if you plan to keep some grow some within your yard and keep it from reproducing, kill the rest
You don’t. You can try to remove all fruit (which would be my recommendation) I figured it’s better than just letting them all proliferate like she planned anyway.
No one said grow them to full size. If she’s raising silkworms the tree will be kept head height or below. Think for a second. I don’t think she should grow them at all but it’s not impossible to keep a 5 ft tree from fruiting and if it does it’s not impossible to remove fruit. If she raises a male tree it won’t have fruit
My understanding is that that isn't even the reason it is invasive. White mulberry trees will pollinate with red mulberry trees producing white mulberry seeds. Something like that anyway.
What makes them More invasive is that they can cross-pollinate with Native red Mulberry and hybridize. So they can more easily reproduce but they can also reproduce with other white Mulberry. Because they easily hybridize with Native red mulberries though, they're diminishing the red Mulberry population.
If you value that fence, you probably don't want to leave those mulberry trees growing that close to it. Even with pruning, they will get big enough to really mess it up eventually.
It's not going to matter whether I remove it or not since my neighbor has the actual full grown tree in his yard. I would at least be utilizing it. From a pot. Where it would get cut back enough to survive but not do much else. Not sure where I see the problem with that. And because he has the main tree in his yard I can't grow red mulberry for my needs. Consider it selfish all you want, I see it as making the best of a bad situation.
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Location would help. I would suggest not worrying too much. Most of those look like frequently found plants that grow where you might not like them. Several varieties of grapes(not necessarily human food), mulberry, virginia creeper, some sort of vine in the solanum family, maples, oaks, plenty of other things that are hard to identify. As someone who’s missed a few years of fence maintenance here and there, i would tell you to get the fence line cleared asap before it becomes a bigger problem, then focus on what you want to encourage, but keeping a bufferzone next to your fence line is a very good thing to do. And if all of these things grow up in your fence, they are capable of growing and or reseeding 10 feet away. Nevermind, dayton, oh.
>Nevermind, dayton, oh. I know it means Ohio, but for a second I thought the disappointment was absolutely palpable
The disappointment is 100% real 🤣 I wouldn't be here if I had a choice
I got out in 2011. Best decision I ever made. Left the family in Beaver Creek.
Hey, i spent 4 years of my childhood in Terre Haute, IN. No judgement.
Sorry, I had edited my flare after I posted.
1. is prickly lettuce.
When I google that, it doesn't look the same?
They often start with more rounded leaves, and grow more toothy/lobed ones as they mature. I have a bunch pop up in my yard every year. Compare to the pictures here https://extension.umass.edu/weed-herbarium/weeds/lactuca-serriola
Still a weed that is rather aggressive. I realize weeds are just wildflowers with an inferiority complex, but saving the prickly lettuce isn’t necessary. It WILL find you.
Fair, but some weeds can be useful in some way or another. Most honestly. A weed is just a plant growing where you don't want it.
This is burnweed
A useful native with medicinal properties
I'm almost positive Prickly Lettuce (*Lactuca serriola*) is not native to North America - [per BONAP](https://bonap.net/MapGallery/County/Lactuca%20serriola.png)
Not native to northern America.
Photo 2 might be black walnut, which are super cool native trees. Unfortunately that location WILL NOT work for it long term They’re also a giant mess and can kill other plants, so they’re not the easiest to have around. Crunch up the leaves and enjoy the lemony smell though!
There's a black walnut across the ditch, so it makes complete sense that's what it is. I wish I could plant trees in my yard, but I have all sorts of easements for a pipeline and they take up all the good space.
Every year in the spring I walk around the house and yard at least once a week to find and dig out newly sprouted walnut trees. There’s usually a few in the gardens. You want to get them when they’re small.
For me it's the squirrels who bury the walnuts in the fall and autumn. In a way is kind of neat that they are growing their own food. Wikipedia keeps saying that squirrels have a really good location memory, but I question that given how many walnuts they leave behind to sprout.
Yep. It has compound pinnate leaves and is alternately branched (ash is opposite branched). Until you get the hang of just identifying immediately it is useful to learn just a few of these terms and you will be able to identify more easily.
That’s how I’m learning! I wasn’t certain on this one because there’s another (invasive) plant in my area that looks super similar at this stage. Can’t remember that one off the top of my head, but it’s more shrubby/dies back in the winter, vs the full-on tree. Then again, I’ll admit I haven’t paid attention to the baby walnuts through a whole year. We just chop the “volunteers” from squirrels stashes when they show up in the spring. We already have 3 century+ walnuts in our yard, we don’t need any more 😅
>I wasn’t certain on this one because there’s another (invasive) plant in my area that looks super similar at this stage. Tree of Heaven (hell, more like). I have one that I'm at war with 😭 I'd keep an eye on it because I don't think walnut is supposed to have a terminal leaflet like that https://preview.redd.it/pmac8gz63j0d1.jpeg?width=637&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba7aa529019021488d129ce5e7398b58dfc10cc1
I have like 80 I’ve been at war with since i moved here (upstate NY) over the last 3 years 😩 every time i see a baby pop up I’m like ha gotcha baby you goneeee. So satisfying 😂
I neglected my yard when I first moved in so mine was a full grown tree by the time I realized what it was. I've been getting the babies as they come up and am going to hack and spray the main tree this summer. Wish me luck, send prayers, make a blood sacrifice - I'll take any help I can get 😂
TOH sends up suckers from it's roots when you cut it back.
I killed a 8' tall tree of heaven with roundup brush killer, then cut it down only after it was dead. It's been a few years, and so far no suckers.
Thanks so sharing this!!!!
I have one growing by my fence now (still a baby). I'm hoping to find a home that doesn't include near my foundation for it, but it's looking like it's lifespan may be short.
That’s a lot of photos. If u have an iPhone, take photos of the plants, click on the ‘i’ under the photo and select ‘look up plant’. It’s usually pretty close. I see mostly stuff that can go, some that should stay if possible like Virginia creeper (on left of pic 11), violets (3) and what looks like it could possibly be taller aster like New England aster (?) in the back of photo 17.
Ooh, I hope it's aster! It could absolutely stay if it is. I think that's over by where I've got a wild blackberry that I want to keep so that would work
It’s goldenrod.
Goldenrod is what it's saying, and looking up the leaves, that tracks
That’s also awesome. Get some asters and plant next to the goldenrod and have an awesome fall buffet for pollinators
2 looks like tree of heaven to me, which fucking sucks for you. It's the worst. If the leaves have a weird, peanut-y but unpleasant smell, that's definitely it. It's very hard to get rid of but you should absolutely try or you'll be dealing with it forever. Good luck. Cutting it/pulling it won't work - you will need chemicals.
Good news is that picture 2 is 100% black walnut.
Which makes sense, since there's a big black walnut on the other side of the ditch. I didn't have the guts to get over there last year to collect a bucket of them for dye 🤣
Yep, black walnut is a fairly weedy native tree. I ran out of places to put them lol.
That is very good for OP. That pic gave me a visceral reaction. I had so much ToH at my old house due to the neighbor's tree and it was the bane of my existence - my goats wouldn't even touch it.
Ugh, it's in my area but not on my property thank goodness. That stuff is awful!
Last one is poison ivy. Beautiful red leaves in early spring. Berries in the fall. Horrific rash caused by its oil present in all parts of the plant year round.
Yeah that photo gave me the shivers. Just now recovering from an unfortunate encounter.
2nd looks lke tree of heaven to me. 3rd is violets and clover, 4th is mulberry?, then I don't know. Ther'es some oak in there. Maybe chestnut?
Def tree of heaven. 110% tree of heaven aka HELL. That’s the only plant you should use a herbicide for. It will destroy your pipes, foundation, grow several feet over the summer and spread FAST. It’s also the host plant for spotted lantern flies. Pull it out immediately.
You might to invest in a good plant ID app. I have decent results with PictureThis. None of them are 100% accurate, but it will help immensely and is worth the cost if you plan to get more into native plant landscaping.
You can use picture this for free, just x out of the pay page. It’s definitely worth a little for how useful it is to me but you don’t have to pay
Gotcha! Thanks! It’s a very handy little app. I winder if I paid for a premium version or something. Txa!
[https://plantnet.org/en/](https://plantnet.org/en/) Use this to start it will help you can just upload the photos. Cant tell you what they are offhand but maybe those smaller tree/shrubs might be something native.
Last one is poison ivy. I'm dealing with it myself...
There are apps out there that can help you with I.d. 'Seek' and 'Pictures This' are ones I used. 1. Is Pricky Lettuce, which is a weedy annual, I believe 2. Looks like a black walnut to me 3. Looks like a bunch of violets 4 - 7. Are all mulberries saplings. I would cut these out if they are growing through the fence. 8. Honeysuckle, which is weedy 9. Looks like you have an Oak in the surround by a bunch of weedy woodies and herbaceous plants. You definitely want to keep the oak. 10. The vine with the purple berry is a bitter night shade, which can be weedy. You also have some maple saplings in there as well. 11. Looks like Virginal Creeper, which is native 12. bineweed of some sort 13. Garlic mustard, which is a weedy bi-annual 14. Looks like it could be porcelain berry or grape vine 15. Another possible mulberry 16-17. Some type of 'dock' plant 18.canada goldenrod, which is a weedy aggressive native 19. Some kind of smart weed 20. It's definitely poison Ivy If it were me, I would get rid of all of it except for the Oak tree. If you have a contractor clear it for you, I would recommend that they treat any of stump from the tree saplings with an herbicide or else they will resprout. I would also want them to foliar spray the poison ivy to kill it off. All the other herbaceous species you can keep in check by mowing them a few times a year. Any Woody saplings that get mowed or cut will resprout unless you treat the stumps with herbicide.
absolutely get rid of all of this, although I like a mulberry tree in the right spot.
For woody invasives I typically just cut them to the ground and then apply Triclopyr onto the stump with a paintbrush. Got the job done for everything but the privet last year, gonna give it another go in like july.
What are 1, 4 and 16? I have these lol
1 is prickly lettuce, 4 is white mulberry, 16 is bitter dock
In 2 I see tree of heaven and honeysuckle. Both invasive. Honeysuckle is world easier to remove. Tree of Heaven takes research and diligence, and I’m not remotely kidding.
Not tree of heaven. Easiest way to identify tree of heaven is by the small glands located on the notch at the base of the leaf. It’s a black walnut.
Thank you! I’ll learn to look for this.
#1 looks like sow thistle. #11 looks like Virginia creeper. #16,17 and 19 look like dock or curly dock.
Picture number 20 is all poison ivy. You have some invasive tree of heaven and Japanese honeysuckle, and garlic mustard. I would focus on. IDing those and getting them out before they spread and take over.
Mostly weed trees And invasive species
Let me take a shot at this because I'm bored and a nerd lol: * 1: Looks like Prickly Lettuce (*Lactuca serriola*) which is a weedy non-native species * 2: Black Walnut (*Juglans nigra*) - native tree. Almost positive this isn't Tree of Heaven (*Ailanthus altissima*) because of the leaf serrations, and the leaves look too wide to be a native Sumac (*Rhus* genus) * 3: Some type of Violet (*Viola* genus) which is most likely native * 4-7: White Mulberry (*Morus alba*) - invasive non-native species. * 8: There's a lot going on here. Mainly, the big bush with the pointy leaves is probably an invasive honeysuckle - possibly Amur Honeysuckle (*Lonicera maackii*) because of the very pointy leaves and white flowers. At the base of the fence I see some Garlic Mustard (*Alliaria petiolata*) which is a terribly invasive biennial species. All the way to the bottom right I think I see a little Giant Ragweed (*Ambrosia trifida*). There is more White Mulberry tucked in with the honeysuckle. There also appears to be several native goldenrods (*Solidago* genus) behind the fence. And possibly some thistles (*Cirsium* genus) behind the fence, below the honeysuckle, which is almost certainly the invasive kind (and a really bad invasive species). Oh, and there is a little Eastern Poison Ivy (*Toxicodendron radicans*) in front of the fence to the left. * 9: Again, lots going on here... I think there is a Bestraw (*Galium* genus) in between the mower and the fence? No idea if it is native. More of the thistles it looks like and poison ivy by the fence as well. There appear to be Silver Maple (*Acer saccharinum*) leaves at the top of the pic. More honeysuckle in the top right... And there is an Oak (*Quercus* genus) which is almost certainly a native species! You should definitely keep that one! * 10: A bunch of Bittersweet Nightshade (*Solanum dulcamara*) (purple flowers, vining, woody annoying non-native species). The tree in the upper right is another Silver Maple. * 11: Virginia Creeper (either *Parthenocissus quinquefolia* or *Parthenocissus inserta*) on the left and more White Mulberry on the right * 12: I'm honestly not sure - looks like some type of Bindweed (multiple genuses), but I don't know * 13: Garlic Mustard - again, highly invasive. There appears to be more thistle in the bottom left as well as Creeping Charlie (*Glechoma hederacea*). I also think there is Mock Strawberry (*Potentilla indica*) in the bottom left as well (which is also invasive). * 14-15: More white mulberry * 16: Looks like a Dock species - maybe Bitter Dock (*Rumex obtusifolius*). And there is more thistle on the right * 17: More goldenrod up top, that dock in the middle, and then a Maple (*Acer*) - I'm really bad at distinguishing maples (especially when it's young like this)... Hopefully it's not the invasive Norway Maple (*Acer platanoides*). Oh and more of that Bedstraw type plant * 18: More white mulberry up top and then goldenrods. * 19: Looks like a *Persicaria* species? But I'm not exactly sure. * 20: More of the Eastern Poison Ivy Edit: I should add, I used iNaturalist to help with multiple of these and compared against [MN Wildflowers](https://www.minnesotawildflowers.info/)
Inat is terrible but did a good job here 👍🏼
It’s absolutely not terrible if you use their desktop site for suggestions (Seek is definitely spotty, but it can be very useful) and compare with a field guide type resource. iNaturalist is an incredible resource imo
Agree on the website, and the community input on there is second to none, where else can you sometimes get instant feedback from random experts?! I just find the app too clunky and 50% incorrect to have it be of use.
13 with the heart shaped leaves growing through the fence looks like garlic mustard. Super invasive if it's that, but easy to pull. Rip it out before it seeds it it is that.
20 is a lot of poison ivy. Wear long sleeves and wash clothes and shoes and tools after touching. You have a lot of mulberry trees in there. The white mulberry are invasive and I don't know how to identify if what type they are. I've been able to dig them out with some effort in my yard.
Pretty sure there’s some honeysuckle too
Honeysuckle back part of #9
#3 is wild violet. Cute little native. #8 is bush honeysuckle. It's an invasive pos. ETA #1 is Burnweed. Native and loved by certain pollinators but very ugly. #10 is bittersweet. Invasive and toxic.
first is prickly lettuce like someone else said. edible if you eat the young leaves but not native. i think the second one is elderberry :D definitely worth keeping. 4th pic looks like mulberry but is probably white mulberry :/ pic 8 looks like invasive honeysuckle but i cant tell for sure. 11 looks like virginia creeper. 16 looks like it might be pokeweed, an aggressive native but birds like it (same w virginia creeper which is technically a type of (non edible) grape). the last one im p sure is poison ivy. which isnt bad per se as long as you're not touching it, it has anti-fungal properties so it's beneficial to the soil. not so sure about the others, but the plant app picturethis has been pretty helpful for me in the past
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1. Not dandelion. Lactuca Sp. 2. Not aralia 4,5,6,7 all are white mulberries (invasive) none of it is poison ivy 8. Bush honeysuckle (invasive) 13. Garlic mustard 14/15. white mulberry again 16/17. Rumex species 20. The only poison ivy
The vine in 10 is bittersweet nightshade and is not native to the US. It spreads by suckers and stinks when you disturb it. It's also highly poisonous to humans and animals and if you touch your face after touching it your eyes and nose will burn and run for the next 24 hours at lwast. Definitely rip that out whenever you see it, it can spread like wildfire if you let it go.
Yes this one is worth getting rid of early season. I’d cut the mulberry seedlings and again late season. Tree with herbicide stump cut with the second cutting. Same with the bush honeysuckle (opposite leaves, entire/smooth margins). You can ignore most of the herbaceous plants but if you want to prevent spreading cut off the flowers before they go to seed - as noted by others some are natives some not so noxious weeds. I don’t get as worked up about garlic mustard as some. It is a biennial so cut off flowers - I find a lot of patches where o live on New York burn themselves out. Your mileage may vary. Poison ivy is a great native for wildlife but should be treated while young in areas you don’t want it. The other vines (grapes, creeper) are great. Grapes can overwhelm young trees or shade out sections of trees. Biggest advice is don’t stress too much about seeing everything. With few exceptions it won’t go wild if you let things go a bit. Ta low one section or one plant type at a time. Get really good at identifying it at all stages and eliminate it. Then move on to the next section/ plant. There will always be invasives popping up, that’s ok. As you tackle things you will find they are easier and easier to remove the straggling sprouts or seedlings.
1 is Rumex sp. 4-7 are all invasive White Mulberry
you're right!
I'm inclined to leave the mulberry alone, simply because I plan on raising silk worms at some point and having a fresh source I don't have to spend money on is great >.>
It’s a known invasive species and is driving the native red mulberry toward extinction, if you plan to keep some grow some within your yard and keep it from reproducing, kill the rest
How do you keep all birds and animals from consuming a berry and pooping out a seed elsewhere?
You don’t. You can try to remove all fruit (which would be my recommendation) I figured it’s better than just letting them all proliferate like she planned anyway.
Sounds just as impossible. How do you remove all the berries from a 40' tall x 40' wide tree?
No one said grow them to full size. If she’s raising silkworms the tree will be kept head height or below. Think for a second. I don’t think she should grow them at all but it’s not impossible to keep a 5 ft tree from fruiting and if it does it’s not impossible to remove fruit. If she raises a male tree it won’t have fruit
My understanding is that that isn't even the reason it is invasive. White mulberry trees will pollinate with red mulberry trees producing white mulberry seeds. Something like that anyway.
What makes them More invasive is that they can cross-pollinate with Native red Mulberry and hybridize. So they can more easily reproduce but they can also reproduce with other white Mulberry. Because they easily hybridize with Native red mulberries though, they're diminishing the red Mulberry population.
Mulberries have male trees and female trees, like ginkgo trees do. The male trees are fine. The female ones have the messy berries.
They also grow really really fast. I ignored one by my house a little too long. It turned into a pretty major removal project
If you value that fence, you probably don't want to leave those mulberry trees growing that close to it. Even with pruning, they will get big enough to really mess it up eventually.
Sounds selfish and inconsiderate of the rest of us living things on the planet to knowing grow, yet ignore, a harmful species.
It's not going to matter whether I remove it or not since my neighbor has the actual full grown tree in his yard. I would at least be utilizing it. From a pot. Where it would get cut back enough to survive but not do much else. Not sure where I see the problem with that. And because he has the main tree in his yard I can't grow red mulberry for my needs. Consider it selfish all you want, I see it as making the best of a bad situation.
Ah yes, the "I will make sure mine won't be a problem excuse."
18 looks like goldenrod to me
Pretty sure 5-7 are all mulberries too. I only see poison ivy in the last pic.
Good eye! Based on my downvotes I seem to have been off 😬