2 ID please!

[WildWolf]

I looked online for over an hour trying to figure what in the world these weeds are. I got them near a once-cultivated field. I had to dig them up and take them home if I wanted them... so the pictures' backgrounds are my wood floor.

Plant #1:
big, broad, fuzzy leaves with a single stripe down the center of leaf. top of leaf green with no visible veins, bottom of leaf light green (almost gray-green) with highly visible veins. over a foot tall

whole plant

root

underside of leaf

top of leaf

top part (flower head?)

Plant #2:
narrow, slightly fuzzy, short, gray-green leaves. tiny, yellow bundles of flowers- some had seeds like dandelion fluff. a foot tall and erect stem.

a bundle of the plants (each plant is 1 or 2 stems)

top of leaf

bottom of leaf

flowers/seeds/top part of stem

thanks!!

 

[MaggieJ]

The first one looks to me like common mullein (Verbascum thapsus). It is a biennial. The first year it produces a rosette of fuzzy leaves. The second year it puts up a thick flower stalk with yellow flowers. The leaves, stems etc. are used medicinally and it is not considered toxic. The seeds, however, are toxic. I doubt very much that rabbits will eat it because of the texture. I have certainly never heard of it being fed to them. But it is a very interesting plant and you may wish to do more research.
http://www.fcps.edu/islandcreekes/ecolo ... ullein.htm

I don't recognize the second plant at all.

 

[WildWolf]

Thanks, I think you are right about the mullein. I don't think I'll keep it then, even if it can be used medicinally... I read that their seeds in the second year can be very invasive, and I have lots of plants that like sunny spots right now.

 

[arachyd]

The first is definitely mullein. It makes a good but foul-tasting sleeping tonic. For some reason I can't see the second plant's pics.

 

[MaggieJ]

You might want to check out groundsel (Senecio vulgaris) as a possibility for plant #2. The lower leaves do not look right, but apparently the shape of the leaves can vary. I suggest you do an image search as well as looking at these links:

http://www.pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?Lat ... o+vulgaris
http://hedgerowmobile.com/groundsel.html

 

[WildWolf]

I don't think it's groundsel... It's leaves aren't lobbed at all, and the flowers are tiny. the flowers are in clusters of 5 that is about 1/4 of an inch wide.It's also a grey-green. Thanks anyway!

 

[MaggieJ]

With all those differences, I agree with you... Not groundsel. Hope you manage to track it down.

 

[jessie15273]

I have Something that looks like the top plant growing by the woods in the goat pen. They don't even touch it. One of the plants is as tall as me!

 

[a7736100]

2nd reminds me of chicory but leaves looks too fuzzy.

 

[WildWolf]

Well, the first plant is definitely mullein. The second plant is only a little fuzzy... but the flowers are different from chicory, and it is a tiny plant. Maybe plant #2 is some rare plant...?