I've tried using Google lens, but it gives different answers each time. It's popping up all over our property, but especially around the house. Any help identifying it would be greatly appreciated!
I'm super paranoid about my kids or dog eating it… 😐
by oooreillyyy
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Maybe Bindweed. If it flowers and looks like morning glory. Just pull it out before flowers make seeds. I fight it every year.
*Persicaria perfoliata* (mile-a-minute), highly invasive
Yes its bindweed. Its the WORST has pretty-ish flowers but it will take over EVERYTHING. it killed all of my flowers. I did my best to keep up with it, had some stuff happen, couldnt tend to my gardens for a week and completely took over. I ripped them all out from frustration.
If anyone knows the best way to kill this shit other than burning the earth please let me know.
Probably Kudzu, the vine that strangles The South (US)
Maybe Honey vine milkweed. If you snap the vine is there a milky look inside?
I call mine bindweed because it doesn’t have prickly stems. Rip it out and spray the ground source holes with vinegar/salt solution. And wear right attire- I got wicked rash on leg and arms from it. This stuff will take over your shrubs, trees, walls, fences.
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Everyones saying bindweed? Thats bittersweet nightshade to me. It takes over snf ifk how to permanently get rid if it honrstly
Get a goat, it cleans your entire garden but fills it with poop
It seems similar to a plant known as morning glory, in the Seattle area. I used a certain product on it and it went away. I don’t know rules about mentioning product names here
hand to hand combat … take it at the root level and pull , repeat …
bindweed. I fight it here in the Uk regularly!!
What do the blooms look like? (and smell like) It kinda looks like honeyvine milkweed to me (*Cynanchum laeve*), which is a host plant for monarch butterflies. If so it does spread aggressively but not as bad as bindweed which is a perennial morning-glory.
Looks like morning glory to me.
It’s honeyvine milkweed.
Leaves are too big for Bindweed (I fight Bindweed everyday). Probably a type of Morning Glory. Both are from the same genus.
Can’t tell what that is, but I’ve used brush killer successfully on stubborn vines like poison ivy, greenbriar, and english ivy. They don’t respond to regular herbicide like what you would use on lawn or sidewalk weeds, must use the brush killer type. Apply to growing parts of the plant, that’s how the chemical reaches the roots.
Round up 3x to be sure. They have extensive root systems. All vines are. Type: who cares. Nuke em
Bindweed. Terrible stuff.
Pull it out before it goes to seed, get as many of the roots as you can, and either solarize the soil and hope it works (because it probably won’t, as the roots are deep), or put down 2-3 layers of cardboard and 6-8 inches of wood chips. Then, spend the next several years pulling up every tiny bindweed plant that sprouts.
Bindweed infests my community garden. We have had to learn to live with it. I pull it out when it is sprouting, which helps a little. Still, there are a lot of people in my garden who don’t pull their weeds, so we will never get rid of it entirely. Then again, it is so hard to eradicate that we probably couldn’t get rid of it entirely even if we all worked together.
Can you eat it?
It’s honeyvine milkweed (Cynanchum laeve). Compare with images [here](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?place_id=1&taxon_id=136381). Info about the plant [here](https://weedguide.cfaes.osu.edu/singlerecord.asp?id=71).
If you figure out how to truly get rid of it (vs setting it back some) without using something nuclear like Roundup, let us know. It’s a baddie.
We call this chokeweed in IL, it literally wrings the life out of most plants it comes across, and just goes nuts on anything. Even had a plastic sculpture end up vined with these things.
Only way I managed was pulling at the very base of the plant and getting the full root base, anywhere I saw it. Getting the sprouts before they’re past 3″ helps.
They hide especially in hostas and other leafy plant bads, so it makes catching them difficult when time isn’t always on your side.
I’ve no idea it’s technical name, just that it’s a vining plant likely designed in the bowels of hell *especially* for gardeners/plant persons.
Looks like Morning Glory to me.
Morning glory
Not morning glory. This is morning glory …
I’m in zone 6/7
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I believe he’s tie pictured is called honeyvine which is in the milkweed family
Bindweed.
I have that stuff all over my property. The Seek app ids it as this: “Hedera helix, the common ivy, English ivy, European ivy, or just ivy, is a species of flowering plant in the family Araliacee,”