Comments on: Is this a weed?

By: Nancy in Virginia

Nancy in Virginia — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 04:49:00 +0000

It looks like Herb Robert to me, though its flowers are pinker. Does the foliage have a fragrance similar to cilantro?

BTW, Shasha is beautiful. I came upon your site searching for cat blogs, and you have great photos.

By: K T Cat

K T Cat — Mon, 26 Jun 2006 05:17:08 +0000

What a beautiful flower. I’d have a hard time calling that little guy a weed.

Of course, once the bloom is gone it’s a bloody nuisance and can be blasted with herbicide until the ground glows like a Japanese lantern at night.

By: Carmi

Carmi — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 22:33:54 +0000

It is a weed only because we have chosen to classify it as such.

I see a beautiful flower. That’s all that really ought to matter.

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 18:41:55 +0000

unfortunately – probably filaree (Erodium spp.) are the leaves crinkly and finely divided? you will know when the wicked seeds appear and cling for all they are worth to your ankles. There are no weeds – only wildflowers and nasty invasives – this does have prettier flowers than tumbleweed though

By: lindy

lindy — Wed, 21 Jun 2006 11:54:02 +0000

In my view, any flower which is blue is not a weed. There is something about blue flowers…

By: srp

srp — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 22:18:14 +0000

I like to think of these more as wildflowers, not weeds.
I have been trying to figure out what some of the ones we have here are. I didn’t know how much it helped to know the leaf shape as well as the flower characteristics.

By: Janeen

Janeen — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 18:29:53 +0000

How very lovely. I’m in the “not a weed” camp.

By: Jaspenelle

Jaspenelle — Tue, 20 Jun 2006 17:33:13 +0000

It looks like a kind of Blue-eyed Grass, maybe Idaho Blue-eyed Grass? Of course the genus has over 40 species so…
And I agree with Bill up there, its only a weed if you don’t want it.