The Many Little "Weeds" in Our Yard

I kept wondering what these plants where when I was younger. I've always been told these plants weren't something we really cared about.

Yellow Cosmos - Cosmos Sulphureus

I found these flowers really pretty! Even insisted to pick them and offer them to Mother Mary during October, but grandma said they wilt too fast. We didn't plant them though, they just sprouted out of the blue. I had no idea what their name was.

When I first downloaded iNaturalist, these plants were long gone and dead. But I placed the pictures anyways. ID'd them wrong first but then found that they were indeed yellow cosmos. I've seen them in other areas and so I feel that they are after all indeginous.

False Shamrock - Oxalis Triangularis

These were so fascinating to me. The purple leaves and the fragile-seeming lavender flowers looked really pretty. I assumed they were purple heart because that was the first thing that came out when I searched purple leaves pink flowers.

Turns out that these were false shamrock! Alas, grandma thought these were weeds and pulled them out.

Recently tho! Some neighbors moved in and it turns out they've cultivated some false shamrock. Which made me wonder why our false shamrock had sprouted in our yard out of nowhere. Must have been bird dung or something.

Asthma Plant - Euphorbia Hirta

Turns out to be called Tawa Tawa here in our place and regarded as a medicinal plant! but I haven't heard what remedy this plant actually offers? It's super common on grassy plots here. We've been having so much of them in our yards.

Little Ironweed - Cyanthillium Cinereum

I just today learned that this plant may really be the Little Ironweed. The variation of whit and purple flowers, the thistled dandelion-ish part and the leaves all make sense. I just wonder what they do to the ecosystem and biodiversity here.

Posted on November 1, 2020 12:43 PM by