weed?

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Okay here is a flower I have never photographed before. It will probably turn out to be some very noxious weed. That’s the usual result when I find something unknown that I think is pretty. This is a vine growing on a “cyclone” fence. The little flowers are about the size of a dime. The nipples in the middle looked silver in nature, but it looks more like white in my photos. Anybody have an idea what it is?

Filed in nature and environment | Sunday, May 14th, 2006 | Permalink |

Comments (6)

  1. Wallace-Midland wrote::

    Go to our resident expert Burr Williams at The Sibley Nature Center, his email link is at the bottom of the page. I guarantee he’ll know…..and give you the Latin name.

    Sunday, May 14, 2006 at 10:31 pm #
  2. Olive/elaeagnus wrote::

    I am wondering if you would tell me what that plant is when you find out its name? It is amazing!

    Thank you very much!

    Monday, May 15, 2006 at 5:07 pm #
  3. Joel Sax wrote::

    That’s a triffid, bill. When it gets a little larger, it will pull up its roots and hunt you down.

    Monday, May 15, 2006 at 6:07 pm #
  4. Cowtown Pattie wrote::

    Joel - oh, now that’s a good ‘un!

    Day of the Triffid! I remember that one!

    Oops, now everyone knows how old we are!

    Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 10:17 pm #
  5. Bill wrote::

    Burr Williams of the Sibley Nature Center in Midland emailed me to identify this as “anglepod,” in the milkweed family.

    We have found it in the south part of the county a few miles north of Midkiff on a fence along a road, and also just off of Midkiff, just south of I-20. As a milkweed, the seeds can fly for miles on a good stiff wind, so it is no surprise that you have found it in town. It can be a huge plant… the one near Midkiff covered about 40 feet of the barbed wire fence until it suffered some damage from aerial praying for mesquites.

    Thursday, May 18, 2006 at 7:58 pm #
  6. Joel Sax wrote::

    He’s just a front for the Triffid Invasion, bill. He wants you to believe that while they establish a beachhead.

    If you tug at the back of his hair, the scalp comes off and you’ll see what looks like the seeds of a wild cucumber inside.

    Friday, May 19, 2006 at 1:24 am #