Risky Plants
Flowers
Comparisons
Latin
Plant Parts
100
It stings when you touch it and injects formic acid and histamines.
What is Stinging Nettle
100
This plant has a BIG, white, umbel-shaped flower head.
What is giant hogweed?
100
These plants are often mistaken for each other as their flowers are yellow, similar and both plants are often found in your lawn. The first has hairless, deeply lobed leaves and the second has hairy, wavy leaves.
What are dandelion and hairy cat's ear?
100
This plant is known in latin circles as Achillea millefolium L.
What is yarrow?
100
This plant has a square stem.
What is Purple Loosestrife?
200
This plant might grow through the foundation of your house.
What is Japanese Knotweed
200
This plant has long, skinny, purplish-pink flower heads that bees LOVE.
What is purple loosestrife?
200
Both these plants are green and viney. Twisting and smothering what is in their way. They are often mistaken for each other as their leaves are very similar.The first has many small flowers, the second, single, large ones.
What are wild buckwheat and hedge bindweed?
200
This plant is known in latin circles as Cystisus scoparius (L.)
What is Scotch Broom?
200
This plant has very sticky, small seeds.
What is Hound's tongue?
300
This plant has black, poisonous berries.
What is Black Nightshade?
300
This plant has small, pink, umbel shaped flower heads.
What is flowering rush?
300
Both of these plants are garden favourites that love to climb and smother everything in their wake. The first has large, shiny leaves and the second has leaves with white marks on them.
What are English Ivy and Yellow Archangel?
300
Both kudzu and scotch broom are from this plant family.
What is Fabaceae?
300
This grass has leaves coming from the stem at a 45 degree angle.
What is Reed Canary Grass?
400
This plant causes third-degree, recurring burns when you get its sap on your skin.
What is giant hogweed?
400
This plant is the only yellow iris you will see in waterways in our region.
What is yellow flag iris?
400
These thistles are both spiny with pinkish flowers but the first has larger leaves on its rosette and bigger flower heads.
What are bull thistle and canada thistle?
400
Both Common Tansy and Spotted Knapweed come from this plant family.
What is Asteraceae?
400
This plant has big spines growing out from the base of the flower head.
What is star thistle?
500
This plant has the ability to smother your house in a very short amount of time.
What is kudzu?
500
This winding, green, viney plant has single, large, white flowers.
What is hedge bindweed?
500
Both of these plants have clover-like leaf patterns. The first plant, the 2 bottom leaves are placed directly across from each other and the top leaf has a longer stem going out to it. The second could be one of two types.
What are black medick and clover (white or red)?
500
This plant is known in latin circles as Ranunculus repens.
What is Creeping Buttercup?
500
This plant is triangular in cross section.
What is flowering rush?
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