Challenge answers!
Answers to this challenge under the cut:
1. Some kind of squash. I suspect pumpkin, if only because it hasn't put out any fruit to speak of yet, and for some reason pumpkin never does in our yard.
2. Tomato. (Better Boy, IIRC)
3. Probably a very late poke, as it's going pink at the bottom. (I wouldn't've gotten it just from the leaves.)
4. Some kind of seedling. I actually suspect a shrub rather than a tree, just based on what's growing in the area and instinct, but I couldn't tell you what sort offhand; I'm bad with shrubby things, unless they have berries.
5. Smartweed / polygonum
6. Crabgrass
7. English ivy
8. Marigold (which is on the verge of taking over that part of the yard, because we've been letting it go to seed.)
9. I'm pretty sure this is copperleaf. At least, it looks just like what cottonmanifesto had in her challenge. Otherwise I would have been lost.
10. Virginia creeper
11. I think this is ground ivy/creeping Charlie. It's visible in spring when it blooms and fall when everything else starts to die back, so I kept thinking it was two different plants. It's also possible that it's some kind of mallow or mint - my father used to call that sort of plant "wild mint", but these particular ones aren't very minty.
12. No clue, sorry. My hindbrain says "dock" but I have no actual knowledge to back that up. (Sorry, bezigebij, the stem's not any paler than the top, I checked. Honorable mention to anyone who guessed!
And bonus, picture of a wasp that is dying from lack of sting, taken yesterday at the train station:
He was just kind of standing on the platform, but not quite dead yet when I poked him, and then I realized she was *missing* her entire back end! Which almost looks like it had used up its stinger on somebody, but I'm pretty sure it's what my field guide calls a Giant Hornet, and they (like most wasps and hornets) can sting as many times as they want.
1. Some kind of squash. I suspect pumpkin, if only because it hasn't put out any fruit to speak of yet, and for some reason pumpkin never does in our yard.
2. Tomato. (Better Boy, IIRC)
3. Probably a very late poke, as it's going pink at the bottom. (I wouldn't've gotten it just from the leaves.)
4. Some kind of seedling. I actually suspect a shrub rather than a tree, just based on what's growing in the area and instinct, but I couldn't tell you what sort offhand; I'm bad with shrubby things, unless they have berries.
5. Smartweed / polygonum
6. Crabgrass
7. English ivy
8. Marigold (which is on the verge of taking over that part of the yard, because we've been letting it go to seed.)
9. I'm pretty sure this is copperleaf. At least, it looks just like what cottonmanifesto had in her challenge. Otherwise I would have been lost.
10. Virginia creeper
11. I think this is ground ivy/creeping Charlie. It's visible in spring when it blooms and fall when everything else starts to die back, so I kept thinking it was two different plants. It's also possible that it's some kind of mallow or mint - my father used to call that sort of plant "wild mint", but these particular ones aren't very minty.
12. No clue, sorry. My hindbrain says "dock" but I have no actual knowledge to back that up. (Sorry, bezigebij, the stem's not any paler than the top, I checked. Honorable mention to anyone who guessed!
And bonus, picture of a wasp that is dying from lack of sting, taken yesterday at the train station:
He was just kind of standing on the platform, but not quite dead yet when I poked him, and then I realized she was *missing* her entire back end! Which almost looks like it had used up its stinger on somebody, but I'm pretty sure it's what my field guide calls a Giant Hornet, and they (like most wasps and hornets) can sting as many times as they want.