Fields that were flooded by the Missouri River last year and too wet to work last fall and this spring are covered with butterweed. My h...Read Moreusband, who has farmed for over seventy years, says that he's never seen it growing here before.
Highly invasive and just about impossible to get rid of.
This plant emerges in late winter here in west KY looking like on...Read Moree of the many wild mustards that are common. It sends up a single stalk form a basal rosette, and the bright yellow flowers emerge in March.
By the first of May, fields and roadsides are completely covered in drifts of yellow blooms.
It prefers plowed fields and waste areas, but takes hold in thickly sodded lawns and yards. It will come up in parking lots and in cracks in the concrete.
Being from the family Asteraceae, the seeds have the little tufted 'parachutes' on the ends and can be carried on the wind great distances.
This plant is identified by the hollow stems and is a cool weather annual. It is poison to livestock in the green plant form, but can be tolerated if eaten as hay.
Fields that were flooded by the Missouri River last year and too wet to work last fall and this spring are covered with butterweed. My h...Read More
Seen and photographed in the Hitchcock Woods, Aiken, SC
Highly invasive and just about impossible to get rid of.
This plant emerges in late winter here in west KY looking like on...Read More