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I've been hoping all year that this plant was going to be a huge, beautiful butterfly weed bunch, but after seeing actual butterfly weed on a field trip for my field botany class, this doesn't appear to be butterfly weed after all.

Any ideas what it is?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Where are you located, generally?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The branching stems at every node make me think it isn't Goldenrod, but who knows

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Did you buy it as seeds or a plant, or did it come up on its own? You are right, this don’t appear to be an Asclepias species, which typically have single leaves that come directly off the stem.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I think I got it as a little sprout from a native plant rescue staffed by volunteers, so IDing it was probably questionable

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I wonder if it’s a Gaillardia species or something related to an oxeye daisy - the leaf clasping a “branch” as it shoots off the stem reminds me of them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I just question the aster ID because it doesn't seem to have the clasping leaves that asters do

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I got a couple nickels in my pockets young man

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