Plant ID Help

[Bellevan]

Located in NE Ohio. Google searching hasn't yielded much help as anything I've seen doesn't seem to match up at all. Mostly curious as to the hairy purple stuff. Thanks!

 

[Fishkeeper]

Hard to tell. Can you take a picture of just one, up close?
Has there been a freeze in the area lately? Sometimes plant leaves that aren't normally purple will go purple after a freeze.
Is it near a garden/is there a decent chance it's an introduced plant?

 

[Bellevan]

Hard to tell. Can you take a picture of just one, up close?
Has there been a freeze in the area lately? Sometimes plant leaves that aren't normally purple will go purple after a freeze.
Is it near a garden/is there a decent chance it's an introduced plant?

Oh yes, ha. 60 one day, snow the next. That's interesting though, I never knew that happened with frost!
I can definitely take a picture tomorrow. But knowing that it may not be purple usually might help out my google-fu.

Edit: no nearby gardens or such either. There's a respectable amount of this stuff across our ~2 acres of grass.

 

[HeartsDelight]

Looks like a plantago ("plantain") species turned purple by cold damage. (Not of any relation tothe banana relative plantain, this "plantago" genus is all leafy green "weeds").

If you tear a leaf does it have tough "strings" like celery or green beans?

They are a very common contaminant in grass seed, and self-sow exponentially each year. And birds love them, so they will spread the seed far afield in their poop.

If this is a plantago, it is harmless if persistent, is actually edible as a young cooked green, and makes a great ingredient in a skin salve and treats insect bites and stings in the field, if chewed and put on the wound as a wet quid.

 

[RenoHuskerDu]

Try a better SE (search engine). Google tries to advance its agendas more than actually return useful hits.
www.duckduckgo.com
www.yandex.com
Both work better than Goolag

 

[RenoHuskerDu]

Yes to the purple. I've seen it in Fall too, after chilly nights.

 

[Bellevan]

Looks like a plantago ("plantain") species turned purple by cold damage. (Not of any relation tothe banana relative plantain, this "plantago" genus is all leafy green "weeds").

If you tear a leaf does it have tough "strings" like celery or green beans?

They are a very common contaminant in grass seed, and self-sow exponentially each year. And birds love them, so they will spread the seed far afield in their poop.

If this is a plantago, it is harmless if persistent, is actually edible as a young cooked green, and makes a great ingredient in a skin salve and treats insect bites and stings in the field, if chewed and put on the wound as a wet quid.

I didn't get a chance to go out and grab one of them today, but based off of my further research last night I'm leaning towards plantago I was well. I realized I did recognize the plant when I thought of it as not being purple, but I still had no idea what it was called, lol.

Try a better SE (search engine). Google tries to advance its agendas more than actually return useful hits.
www.duckduckgo.com
www.yandex.com
Both work better than Goolag

Less issue with any sort of agendas and more issue with there being approximately a million plants that come up with "hairy green broad leaf plant Ohio" P: I did find this lovely website with really great pictures http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/weedguide/single_weed.php?id=110

 

[RenoHuskerDu]

Try these hits
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=botanical+search+engine&t=brave&ia=web

 

[Little Jerry Seinfeld]

We have tons of plantain on our farm I've never seen any with hairs like that nor does it turn purple in frost. Maybe its a slightly different species though?
Our plantain is one of our chickens favorite treats.

 

[HeartsDelight]

Try these hits
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=botanical+search+engine&t=brave&ia=web

Most of those finders just let you look up by common name or binomial. Still not useful when you have no idea what you're looking at.

Give me a link from any one of those that can identify this particular plant via machine learning. I'll tell you now, it won't--this specimen is too far from the norm and will return gibberish.

This is seriously not a "weighted search engine" issue. This is a "I have a weird damaged specimen I need human eyeballs on to tell me its name or at least genus before I can put anything in any search engine.