Any plant people? I have a ???

[AmandaDi]

Okay, I was out at my brothers and Alexis showed me some plants across the street in the field. Andrew said they are weeds but I dont know. They are beautiful! They are very tall, and the leaves shape into a rose! It looks like a huge rose bush, minus the roses!!! Do you know what they are called? We so want some!

 

[Aneesa's Muse]

A picture is worth a thousand words..

The description sounds very familiar to me, but a pic really would help.. even a "good" cell phone pic

 

[AmandaDi]

I will bring my camera out when I go again and post it. I've been trying to find pics online and no luck. The ones I am finding have the pollen looking stems sticking out of them, but these dont... literally look like just leaves forming the shape of a rose.

 

[Lynn & The Chins]

It sounds like it might be a succulent, since you're in TX. Check this link out:


http://images.google.com/imgres?img...+plants&gbv=2&hl=en&ei=up4gSvWIM8Oltgf-uPXLBg

If that's not it, go to google, choose images and search for succulent plants and check them out...

 

[AmandaDi]

It is similar to that. But the leaves are much thinner... soft almost... I am googling succulent now!

 

[EveningChin]

Weed really is a matter of opinion though. IMO a weed is just a plant you don't want growing there. Like the Austrian Copper rose that is attempting and succeeding to take over my side yard.

Sounds like a succulent to me.

 

[AmandaDi]

http://images.google.com/imgres?img...n&rlz=1T4GGLL_enUS299US299&sa=N&start=54&um=1

This is the closest I have found so far. But they didnt have bark like branches... they were just thick green stems.

 

[Aneesa's Muse]

Try THIS site... it even has color pictures.. not drawings.

Okay.. I looked at your pic.. and that is not what I was thinking about. I have those "Hen 'n chicks" plants in my front yard, but mine are much larger.. like 12 or 14 inches diameter, some.

 

[Aneesa's Muse]

Big foot water clover?

 

[Aneesa's Muse]

What about Lady's Mantle ..or Mantle alchemilla vulgaris?

 

[seachin]

hmmm....type of euphorbia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphorbia

there are many types of euphorbia...try clicking on some of these:
http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plants/Euphorbiaceae/Euphorbia.html

if it is one of those....they can be a major weed in some areas....and the milky sap (actually a good clue its a euphorbia...if they look right, maybe break off a small piece to see if its like elmer's glue) is a skin and eye irritant/poison.

 

[Aneesa's Muse]

Another one that came to mind.. but could think of the name... the above post!

 

[AmandaDi]

I got my sister-in-law to go take pics for me since I havent been back over there since I posted this. Here are a few different pics. They are so neat... at least I think so!

 

[seachin]

ah....not a euphorbia....and since I dont live in your zone....I dont really know what that is! i will ponder for a bit ...

 

[PaperMoon]

they are pretty....i wonder what they are called...

 

[AmandaDi]

LOL PaperMoon, I agree and I wonder the same thing!

 

[seachin]

Can you post pictures when it blooms? the closest I can get right now is this common milweed, but I am not convinced:
http://essmextension.tamu.edu/plants/toxics/detail.aspx?plantID=47

 

[AmandaDi]

LOL so this is gonna sound stupid I am sure... its not bloomed? You think it will bloom with some other type of flower thing like in the link you posted?

 

[seachin]

well, I dont know what it is yet, and by the colors and thickness I am still not convinced. The thing you say looks like a bloom I believe is apical growth (growth at the end of a stem)....leaves are formed here as the branch elongates, hence the smaller whorl of things that look exactly like the leaves further down. I still think it looks a tad succulent, but like I said, I dont live there, so I dont know what plants are there. But it would have to bloom at some point or there would be no reproduction (unless it did it asexually, which is doubtful in a plant that size)

 

[AmandaDi]

My mom said she was pretty sure it was succulent when she was out there...