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Main Discussion Area => Around the Campfire => Topic started by: WhistlingBadger on November 19, 2023, 04:57:27 pm

Title: Can anyone ID this plant?
Post by: WhistlingBadger on November 19, 2023, 04:57:27 pm
This plant showed up in the terrestrial part of my frog/fish paludarium.  I'm pretty sure it came in with some wild mosses I brought back from Michigan last summer.  Anybody know what it is?

By the way, the long stems growing through it are rice plants.  And the little thing that looks like a frog?  That's a frog.   ;D
(https://www.fishforums.net/attachments/plant1-jpg.330972/)

(https://www.fishforums.net/attachments/plant2-jpg.330973/)

(https://www.fishforums.net/attachments/plant3-jpg.330974/)
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plant?
Post by: Pat B on November 20, 2023, 02:05:49 am
Sorry but I can't help you with the plant but I have an app on my iPhone called "Seek" to help ID plants and it's free. Works pretty good too.
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plant?
Post by: Chumash on November 20, 2023, 08:30:21 am
May be some sort of indian lettuce or miner's lettuce: Montia perfoliata or Claytonia perfoliata
but the leafs look like ground ivy: Glechoma hederacea.

Did you know the colour of the flowers?
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plant?
Post by: WhistlingBadger on November 20, 2023, 09:24:03 pm
Well, after doing some looking and consulting some other plant lovers, I'm pretty sure it's bittercress, probably wavy (Cardamine flexuosa) or cuckoo flower (c. pratensis).  Might have to let it grow a bit and try some on a roast beef sandwich.  Pretty little plant!  Too bad it's a noxious weed.
Title: Re: Can anyone ID this plant?
Post by: bjrogg on November 21, 2023, 12:42:49 pm
I’m just looking at my phone, but I’m thinking it might be wild geraniums. They are a weed here.

Bjrogg