BigOly
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Do you know what this plant is?
It seems the cows and goats avoid eating it. It also seems to be a good fence cover if it is safe to grow i.e. not like poison ivy or something?
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Bob H
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It might be a type of Hedge Mustard Plant.
http://www.uaex.edu/farm-ranch/resource-library/forage-id/we...
[Edited on 11-19-2014 by Bob H]
The SAME boiling water that softens the potato hardens the egg. It's about what you are made of NOT the circumstance.
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BigOly
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I think you're on to something Bob. I just read mustard plants cause cows to have gastrointestinal problems if they eat it. Maybe they have learned
to avoid eating this plant.
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Pappy Jon
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Not a mustard, if you are talking about the yellow flowers. That is a member of the Sunflower/Aster/Composite family. Unfortunately, I don't know what
it is, and I couldn't find it in Rebman-Roberts.
[Edited on 11-22-2014 by Pappy Jon]
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sargentodiaz
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I went through over 500 photos of native Baja plants and this simply wasn't there.
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Pappy Jon
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My best guess is Eupatorium sagittatum. Good luck with a common name.
"The association of flowers and warm-blooded love is more than a romantic convention; it is based upon one of the great advances in the evolution
of life." Ed Abbey
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Mexitron
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Looks like a Senecio to me, but yes definitely a compositae. Some Senecio are non-native weeds.
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BigOly
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I'm thinking of using this plant on a new Palo de Arco fence as cover. It grows on fences all around my neighborhood in L.B. Maybe it is not a
native plant.
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hombre66
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San Diego Sunflower Tacote with the petals knocked off?? The flowerbud center is identical (N Roberts field guide)
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