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    More weeds help

    Yes, again!

    I posted this in my other thread, but I think because it's old no one answered....soooo here we go:

    Ok I think I've managed to identify a few, but some I'm still not 100% sure. But here are some with some guesses:

    Plant 3 grew into something looking a lot like sheeps sorrel:


    Plant 4 looks like some kind of lettuce, though I tried it and it tasted not like lettuce, so I'm still unsure:


    Plant 5, still unsure, but there's some sort of white bud on them:


    Plant 7 and 8 are the same...still looks like nipplewort to me. It's budding yellow flowers. You were all right, there WAS another plant growing in with 7...it was just very, very close to the other plant:



    Also, a newbie, which looks like lambs quarters to me:


    More chickweed!


    Sorry about all the questions. I'm just interested in this, and I want to know what's edible, but I don't want to poison myself (obviously haha)

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    I think you need a field guide for edible plants of Northern Europe.
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      #3
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      I think you're right....thanks for the link!

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        #4
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        The newbie looks like Fat Hen to me but I agree with Thal on the guidebook, nibbling things that *might* be lettuce could end badly!
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          #5
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          Yeah I'm not touching it until I know what it is 100% (when I nibbled it I spat it out, because I didn't want to swallow something when I wasn't sure)

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            #6
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            The first one looks like plantain, and 7 and 8 look like flower-of-the-hour.
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              I don't think the first ones plantain as it doesn't have the strong parallel ribs on the leaf that plantains generally do. Unless we're having common-name mix up which is definitely possible!
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                #8
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                In the US there are two different plants with that name. That may be part of the confusion.
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                  #9
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                  #1 doesn't look like common-weed-type plantain to me, either. For some reason, it makes me think of field cress, arugula or oak-leaf lettuce. Have you nibbled any of it? Does it taste peppery at all? Can't really tell for sure til it flowers, though.

                  #5 might be a mustard - they get those little yellowy-white clusters of flowers. Our wild mustards here in Nevada have ragged leaf margins similar to dandelion/thistle plants, not entire margins like the one pictured.
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                    #10
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                    I reckon that on number 1 that Danie's pretty close with her Sheep's Sorrel suggestion. I've grown buckler-leafed sorrel before and its leaves looked like that. Sorrel always tastes like particularly tart apple peel to me, if that helps.
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                      I hate 'first year/season flat basal rosette' plants, lol. At least when it comes to id'ing them, anyway.
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                        #12
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                        Turns out the one I thought was sorrel is 100% sorrel. I found out that one of my big cookbooks has a lot of tips for cooking weeds, and it said that if you put sorrel in contact with aluminium, it turns a funny colour. Of course, this was AFTER I picked a bunch and soaked it in a aluminium bowl. Guess what happened? At least (aside from the look and smell) that solidifies the ID.

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