Please identify this plant...

would u help in trying to identify this plant. i have tried killing it w/ Roundup since it seems to duplicate very fast and the roots i think are interconnected... but wasn't very lucky. it seems to want to grow very well. the largest I have right now is about 4' now and lots of these tiny versions are coming out around it. I think if i don't control them they will eventually cover my garden. i've so far been cutting the larger ones but having seen the amount of smaller ones i may be lossing this battle.

 

Could be Skimmia japonica: http://classes.hortla.wsu.edu/hort231/List10/skimmia.html
Could have spread by seed from berries.

 

its a native Daphne. they pull up pretty easy vs spraying them.

 

Daphne Laureola. An introduced plant in B.C., naturalized here. Six berries, have been documented to kill a small child, 40-60 for adults. Continued removal, of the plant, while wearing gloves, wash your hands afterwards, will control the plant eventually. The milky sap, can/will give dermatitis, and will especially react with mucous membranes, eyes...

 

No daphnes are native here.

 

yup this is the one. daphne! thank you!

so i have to pull out all of them? Roundup is not doing anything. Oh I really hate this plant. Photograph from this page.

 

perhaps not native but it is found everywhere locally as a volunteer in landscapes and gardens. usually undesirable.

 

Yes: I see it often.

 

so i tried pulling them out and they are not coming off easily... they are not coming off at all. so i went to my garage and grabbed a shovel. that helped but i wouldn't say it pulls off easy. :( even the tiny ones wouldn't just come off. guess it's hard work to remove these guys.

is it also true that we can't buy weed killers in vancouver anymore? how are we going to control all the lawn weeds such as dandelions and others?

 

So today I gave it a good spray of vinegar. Hope it kills 'em this way.

 

Plants that are hard to pull can be pried out with a digging fork.

 

Introduced from Eurasia. Found in Washington State,Oregon, British Columbia's, (Lower Mainland, southern half of Vancouver Island).... Thymelaeaceae,(Mezereum family) Daphne laureola; Spurge-Laurel.
Information from USDA & E-Flora,(B.C.,Canada)

 

^^ basically a pain in the ****! ;D

 

i tried this on the small ones and they pulled up nicely. thanks! the problem are the larger ones since the roots are more firmly planted and goes pretty deep. out came the shovel!