# Green groundcover ID help (pics) **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 22, 2006, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-groundcover-id-help-pics/361735 "2006-06-22T16:33:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![vetbridge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5e925/32.png) [@vetbridge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vetbridge)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-groundcover-id-help-pics/361735/21 "2006-06-23T22:15:14Z")
> [@Kalhoun](#): > > Here are pictures of a weed, pancake mushrooms, the pancake tree, and my yard. Never a dull moment! > > [Find your inspiration. | Flickr](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/karlen1956/album?.dir=/7d04re2&.src=ph) Please tell me there is a hammock somewhere in your yard! ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-groundcover-id-help-pics/361735/22 "2006-06-23T23:07:45Z")
That ain’t plantain. Plantain flowers look like [little fuzzy pinecones](http://www.naturesgarden.ca/plantain.htm). It’s some sort of dandelion relative, likely. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-groundcover-id-help-pics/361735/23 "2006-06-23T23:34:33Z")
The picture is hawkweed. It most deffinately is not a plantian. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-groundcover-id-help-pics/361735/24 "2006-06-23T23:38:09Z")
You’re right; the OP does have plantains as well though (how could this _not_ be the case in a lawn like this?) - visible in the second picture (this one: [http://usera.imagecave.com/vetbridge/grass2.JPG](http://usera.imagecave.com/vetbridge/grass2.JPG) ) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-groundcover-id-help-pics/361735/25 "2006-06-23T23:48:21Z")
It’s in the sunflower family. There are a lot of wild yellow flowers in the sunflower family including the dandelion. I know a spot along a road where you can see compass plants, they are impressive. They have large flat leaves, and grow like a dandelion, except bigger. The plants are a prarie native species that have to grow some years to bloom. A flower stalk grows up many feet and the top gets multiple flowers on the top. The stalk sticks up 3 to 12 feet. and the flowers are about 3 inches in diameter. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2006, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-groundcover-id-help-pics/361735/26 "2006-06-23T23:52:33Z")
I was expecting to see some pussytoes in there. ---
**Author:** ![gabriela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@gabriela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gabriela)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-groundcover-id-help-pics/361735/27 "2006-06-24T10:13:57Z")
Thanks for the second two pictures; the first of them made me relax, again, i don’t know why; the second is a cute dog. The dog looks nearly completely happy (which is one of the two standard Dog modes\*) but a little anxious - was she waiting for you to stop taking the damn picture and throw the ball? (\*The other standard Dog mode is “Off”. “Unhappy”, while totally possible, is NOT a standard Dog mode) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2006, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-groundcover-id-help-pics/361735/28 "2006-06-24T19:36:20Z")
> [@vetbridge](#): > > Please tell me there is a hammock somewhere in your yard! Unfortunately for our visitors, not anymore. I hate to say it, but we’re really not hammock people. We’re more the “plastic chair around the fire” types. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/green-groundcover-id-help-pics/361735.md?page=1)