Could I get some help please. This has come up in my garden, I don’t recognize it, although the leaf shape seems pretty distinctive. Is it a weed? Is it a local?
There are no flowers, so I can’t tell you flower shape or colour. There are some seed capsules, like small forget-me-not seed capsules, but individual and the leaves are alternate, and finely, softly hairy.
Got an ID in the Holiday Forum. It is a weed from Europe called Kicksia elantine subs crinita. Common name is twining toad flax.
Now I just have to remember that!
And pull it out tomorrow morning.
buffy said:
Got an ID in the Holiday Forum. It is a weed from Europe called Kicksia elantine subs crinita. Common name is twining toad flax.
Now I just have to remember that!
And pull it out tomorrow morning.
Wow, big name for little weed…does it serve a purpose in it’s natural (European) habitat?
Dinetta said:
buffy said:Got an ID in the Holiday Forum. It is a weed from Europe called Kicksia elantine subs crinita. Common name is twining toad flax.
Now I just have to remember that!
And pull it out tomorrow morning.
Wow, big name for little weed…does it serve a purpose in it’s natural (European) habitat?
I have that weed too and wondered what it was. It’s small and hardy but doesn’t seem invasive. Then again I have many weeds that I have no idea of their name or origin. I pull the all out.
Happy Potter said:
Dinetta said:
buffy said:Got an ID in the Holiday Forum. It is a weed from Europe called Kicksia elantine subs crinita. Common name is twining toad flax.
Now I just have to remember that!
And pull it out tomorrow morning.
Wow, big name for little weed…does it serve a purpose in it’s natural (European) habitat?
I have that weed too and wondered what it was. It’s small and hardy but doesn’t seem invasive. Then again I have many weeds that I have no idea of their name or origin. I pull them all out.
It is wise to carry a herb book.
Toadflax contains: Glycosides, among them linarin, organic acids such as formic, tannic, citric and malic; gum, sugar and pectin. Formerly used as a diuretic and purging agent, it is hardly used at all today Since animals will not eat it, it can be used in stalls as straw for driving out vermin. Toadflax boiled in milk is also used as a fly poison. No culinary usage.
>>Since animals will not eat it, it can be used in stalls as straw for driving out vermin. <<
Blimey, you’d have to have a bad infestation to have enough of it. According to the information I read last night it’s not particularly invasive. And here I’ve got one solitary plant that I know of. And I haven’t seen it here before in the12 years we’ve been here.
buffy said:
>>Since animals will not eat it, it can be used in stalls as straw for driving out vermin. <<
Blimey, you’d have to have a bad infestation to have enough of it. According to the information I read last night it’s not particularly invasive. And here I’ve got one solitary plant that I know of. And I haven’t seen it here before in the12 years we’ve been here.
Yes. I thought that as I copied the text from the herb identifier handbook.
However it must be common where it originates.
buffy said:
>>Since animals will not eat it, it can be used in stalls as straw for driving out vermin. <<
Blimey, you’d have to have a bad infestation to have enough of it. According to the information I read last night it’s not particularly invasive. And here I’ve got one solitary plant that I know of. And I haven’t seen it here before in the12 years we’ve been here.
I like the idea of using it as nest material. Thanks RB.
Not that I have heaps of it, but I can add it to my bulk lot of other herbs to be used in nesting boxes, wormwood and rosemary leaves. And shredded bay leaves seeing as I am often given large branches of it.
Better then forking out for hay.