Help identifying weeds please

[JustPotteringAbout]

This is my first season and I'm still trying to identify plants and weeds.
Pulled a couple of ragwort, some cleavers, dug out umpteen dandelions, pulling a lot of chickweed daily. There are two patches of northern dead nettle Lamium confertum and undecided whether to pull them. They are attracting bees but were harbouring larvae. Every time I have set aside the larvae on the path and gone in for a sample container, they have gone by the time I got back so unidentified species of lepidoptera. Could be cabbage moth.


This is growing in the fabaceae and solanaceae beds, in fact in many places around the garden including borders and from out of crevices.. They have grown quickly (now 0.25m), none have flowered. There are opposing leaves then at next level opposing leaves at 90 degrees to the leaves above / below. There is a red vein up the centre of the leaf

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There are a couple of these in borders but they may be cultivated.
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I am not sure if this clump with whitish flowers on long shoots is a weed or a veg/herb that has been overwintered and running to flower (there's no particular pattern to the flower/leaves (bottom left of the photo is another speciment of the weed in the first picture link)
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Could anyone help identify them please.

Many thanks.

[SarzWix]

First one is rosebay willow-herb I believe. I've been pulling a lot of that just this afternoon. Quite attractive, as weeds go, but it chucks tons of seeds around. Don't know your other two though, sorry.

[veggiechicken]

1 Probably Rosebay willow herb as Sarz suggests
2. Looks familiar - probably cultivated
3. looks like rocket or similar going to seed. Have you nibbled a leaf?

[chris]

1, as above is Rose bay willow - I have it everywhere. Good for the chooks to munch on though - and it pulls out easily.

[Two_Sheds]

I am not sure if this clump with whitish flowers on long shoots is a weed

It's a radish (or similar) gone to seed

[mothhawk]

Is the second one Welsh poppy?

[binley100]

The second one looks like welsh poppy to me too ........bees love it

[JustPotteringAbout]

Many thanks.
First one is just quite leafy tasting. Looked up images of rosebay willowherb on the web
and that's certainly it. I'll pull the rest of those Sunday.

Second one ... didn't try foliage, if the slugs and snails won't have it then there's probably a good reason. I'll mark it 'working ID; welsh poppy' and do a look up again when it runs to flower.

Third one; was in herb /leaf veg patch adjacent to a tangle of willowherb, cleavers, plants with leaves like rocket, and what looks like spinach. Tasted OK, palatable, undistinctive, though it was quite hairy. Isn't cruciate like a brassica but proably not that important IDing it now as it has run to flower.

Sorry again for the delay in response, thought I responded last night. There were northerly high winds yeterday with rain and trying to salvage my brasssica bed today.

[veggiechicken]

JPA, when I said "have you nibbled a leaf" I didn't mean of everything in your list - just the third one! Don't want to lose you yet
Hope the wind has dropped for you today - it has here, thank goodness

[ScottsRep]

The third one may be a "Mouse Ear Cress" Check out this link to our website Mouse-ear Cress | Arabidopsis thaliana | Sisymbrium thaliknum

It has pictures, descriptions, and control methods for all of the broadleaf weeds to help you identify them easier. If you have any other questions please feel free to message me.

-Scotts Lawn Service Representative

[JustPotteringAbout]

The third one may be a "Mouse Ear Cress" Check out this link to our website Mouse-ear Cress | Arabidopsis thaliana | Sisymbrium thaliknum

It has pictures, descriptions, and control methods for all of the broadleaf weeds to help you identify them easier. If you have any other questions please feel free to message me.

-Scotts Lawn Service Representative

Many thanks,
That indeed looks very much like the one I pulled (#3)

[JustPotteringAbout]

I pulled some of these which were all in the same bed.
I'm wondeing if I have actually pulled all the rocket Eruca sativa plants. The foliage on the seed packet doesn;t look like it has the same arrangem,ent of veins.
Leaf (Lobed, cross-venulate vasculation ( small veins connecting secondary veins) Aspect : L80mm W 50mm )


Plant (same specimen main stem not hollow, slight milky sap dimensions: 300mm total height, 200mm above soil):


Root (taproot 100mm plus numerous lateral roots )
Edit: oops, sorry wrong scale on ruler. on proper 1:1 scale should read 10mm, 20mm instead of 200mm, 400mm as pictured.



Sowthistle?
Rocket?

[Glutton4...]

Weed. Can't remember what it's called.

OK, it could be Lapsana communis - Nipplewort.

Ruddy stuff...

[JustPotteringAbout]

Weed. Can't remember what it's called.

OK, it could be Lapsana communis - Nipplewort.

Ruddy stuff...

That's the one, thank you very much.
I just think I'm getting somewhere with my list of weeds 138, then another one pops up that I haven't even heard of, let alone have listed on my weeds list (138 species / genera now).

Edible too! At least I'm getting something from the garden to eat! Was nice in pea and mint soup with radish leaves. Too late for the ones I hastily tried to replant in an area of the vegbed they flopped overnight.

[Glutton4...]

I have a wonderful book called 'The Queen's Hidden Garden' by David Bellamy, with the most beautiful drawings by Marjorie Lyon, who drew some of the designs for Portmeirion.

It was a lucky find on the 'Bay, when looking for a Portmeirion dish that a relative wanted.

ISBN: 0 7153 8590 9 for anyone interested. Invaluable for a 'weed removal operative' like me!