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[quote=Anonymous]Update - - one plant was identified as American pokeweed:  https://www.marylandbiodiversity.com/view/1590

I can't identify the other because I dug it all up before taking a picture and I don't have pictures from last year so I will wait for it to grow back. It doesn't seem like the pokeweed grows on rhizome, so I think I have another big weed I'm dealing with. I also sent a smaller weed picture to them and can report back on that too.

The pokeweed confuses me because it is said to be native and important for birds, but also invasive and poisonous. We have toddlers so I think it has to go, since even eating one or two berries could kill them!

I have pulled enormous taproots up, one was like a foot in diameter. I am not sure if the giant root stumps I dug up were from the pokeweed or the second big mystery plant, but either way I have tons of pokeweed. I may have done OK by digging up the little pokeweeds this spring already. I probably dug up 150 of them ranging from 2 inches to 2 feet... but on many the roots broke before I got to the bottom. I read that because of their strong root system I may need to use chemicals to control them and just be vigilant against the new growth. [/quote]

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