What is this?

Discussion in 'Plants: Identification' started by nanners, Oct 23, 2006.

  1. nanners

    nanners Member

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    It started growing in one of my Mother-In-Laws potted plant. Seeds probably dropped by a bird. Can you identify?

    Nancy
     

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  2. globalist1789

    globalist1789 Active Member

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    Looks like a "cat's ear" or "false dandelion" (Hypochaeris radicata). If it is then the seed would not have dropped from a bird but drifted through the air like a dandelion's.
     
  3. David in L A

    David in L A Active Member 10 Years

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    Hypochoeris 'seeds' would be more like dandelion, with feathery pappus at the end of a long narrow beak. These look more like a Bidens, with a few (barbed?) prongs coming directly off the achene. Possibly B. pilosa or a relative?
     

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