Okay, I finally got down on hands and knees to weed (yeah, like I'm the only one...) and was so impressed with my thyme! Then I realized about a third of it was oddly sticky... quite a bright green... and didn't grow EXACTLY like the rest... luckily this stuff pulls up easily, but man oh man do you have to be careful not to pull up the real stuff with it! I don't know what it is, but I hope I haven't consumed any thinking it was thyme! Y'all know what this is?
I'm not sure... but I think I've got some, too!
I've also got something that I think is probably mouse ear chickweed, http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/98767/
But there seems to be something else too, more narrow leaves, like in your photo... Fortunately, the thyme it was intertwined with had roundish deep green leaves, so it wasn't too bad to try to separate.
I dont know what it is either but kill it while you can it has taken over parts of my yard
I need to get the tweezers to get the last little bits out. How did it know to grow in the thyme? I haven't seen it anywhere else. Odd, huh?
critter, I will take a look at that link after I hit "send" but I get chickweed here in the spring and have read it's more nutritious than spinach. I haven't tried it yet, but one of these days I will. Foraging interests me quite a bit; I just fear I'll identify the weeds wrong and hurt someone!
Edited to say that's not the chickweed I get, but very similar.
This message was edited Apr 11, 2008 9:23 AM
Chickweed isn't "sticky", but cleavers is! Galium aparine. Hard to tell from your photo, but I believe that is what you have brigid. check out the terminal leaves of the plant you picked, it is reminiscent of Sweet Woodruff, which is also a Galium. Cleavers is a good lympahtic.
Cleavers would have been my guess on sticky but the photo doesn't quite look like the one I've got growing here. Mine is a good deal larger. Sorry this photo doesn't have my hand in it to show the scale of the leaves.
If it should be Cleavers, it is a versatile herbal weed as Betty mentioned.
Wow! I have a bunch of the cleavers and thought to myself: that sure looks like some sort of weedy sweet woodruff. I am so glad I popped into this forum tonight!
