Identifying Weeds

llombardo

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I do not have a green thumb, can't grow anything except weeds. I do not use any poisons because of the animals and I have been weeding and tossing it in with the ducks and chickens.

Can anyone tell me what kind of weeds these are? I have plenty

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I believe the first pic is yellow oxalis, edible, but high in oxalic acid, the 2nd is white Dutch Clover, not really a weed, unless it is someplace you wanted something else... Chickens will find the clover quite tasty (more so than the yellow oxalis, which also has a common name of sourgrass), though they will probably eat both. Anymore weeds?
 
They did eat whatever the first picture was.
And this one. Looks like the start of some yellow flowering?

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They did eat whatever the first picture was.
And this one. Looks like the start of some yellow flowering?

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I eat this stuff myself. Tangy.

This has potential for being a really good thread. I have many additional species and a handle on some with respect to whether chickens eat them and as to whether the plants can survive the grazing.
 
1st on the left is Plaintain (Buckhorn), next a kind of foxtail grass, can't identify the creeper on the right hand side (too blurry when I enlarged it). 2nd pic looks like prickly pigweed, then maybe a bentgrass species, but I'm not sure, next another possible bentgrass and another yellow oxalis (yellow oxalis can look different depending on age (small, compact when 1st comes up), tall and leggy with long thick stems when mature and has plenty of water) but you can always identify it by the indented, heart shape leaf (shamrocks are in the oxalis family) which differentiates it from the clovers. There are other plants that have that bentgrass look that aren't grasses at all, I could tell better if it had a seed head. If it develops an obvious flower, it isn't a grass. Actually, you have so far, fairly decent weeds, all edible, provided the grass really is a grass. If it isn't the chickens probably won't be so eager to eat it. All grasses are edible if they are truly a grass (horsetail grass, which grows around water, is not a grass at all and is poisonous, but that would most likely not be in your backyard).
 

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