Dear All, I would greatly appreciate help IDing these. I am pretty sure that #1 and #6 are the same thing except shaped differently (#1 is gown like a tree and #6 like a bush, but the leaves and barks are the same). I suspect #2 is dogwood, but there are no berries. The leaves and the bark on #1 and #6 are darker than the ones on #2. Thank you! TA
Thank you!! Of course (I should have remembered from the times I first started using the UBC forums...). I should have explained that we are in zone 7, that this is our new property, and I'm trying to figure out what's worth saving, especially after a very hot summer when a whole bunch of plants died / got damaged. Nobody lived here a while, so frankly sometimes I'm not even sure is something's a weed or a real thing... Like that thing with white flowers, for example.
Here are some more pictures of number 2 -- the trunk, the leaves, whatever I could find of the buds. It's a tree with multiple slender trunks, about 8-9 feet tall. Thank you all so much!
Off topic. Thanks weedbender, Even though this plant isnt P. persicaria upon looking it up, you put a name to a picture I took on a recent trip to Hood Canal. But the actual name was a little problematic. Burke's WTU herbarium from UW and the Eflora of BC have it listed as Persicaria maculosa, while the USDA Plant page still retains Polygonum persicaria, and I'm also a bit confused if it is native or not. But I consider my confusion is a good thing. Keeps you thinking about things too. Harry