# Please ID this garden weed? TX, USA **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 22, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-garden-weed-tx-usa/710535 "2015-01-22T00:24:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-garden-weed-tx-usa/710535/1 "2015-01-22T00:24:55Z")
This is north of the DFW area. The garden where these are sprouting is near a cleared but undeveloped field, so seeds are probably blowing in. Do the leaves look familiar to anyone here? [http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/01/21/17112ecf4da2f19e7b4a1909425c295e.jpg](http://tapatalk.imageshack.com/v2/15/01/21/17112ecf4da2f19e7b4a1909425c295e.jpg) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-garden-weed-tx-usa/710535/2 "2015-01-22T00:48:35Z")
My WAG - possibly wild-type Gaillardia seedlings. Compare to the third image from the top in [this thread](http://forums2.gardenweb.com/forums/load/wtrsow/msg0419570917522.html). ---
**Author:** ![purplehorseshoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/purplehorseshoe/32/2996_2.png) [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-garden-weed-tx-usa/710535/3 "2015-01-22T01:04:23Z")
Blanket flower is a possibility, as I do see them blooming in roadside fields. Thanks! Any other possible suggestions? ---
**Author:** ![Ionizer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5daacb/32.png) [@Ionizer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ionizer)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2015, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-garden-weed-tx-usa/710535/4 "2015-01-22T12:53:11Z")
May be a coomon [plantain](http://www.dallasnews.com/lifestyles/home-and-gardening/headlines/20130410-get-to-know-14-weeds-every-texan-hates.ece) (Plantago major)? Just a quick [Google search of images](https://www.google.com/search?q=common+plantain+identification&safe=off&biw=819&bih=530&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=9_HAVKnbKdakyAS36YKACg&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ) for ease of verifying for OP. What ya think, OP? ---
**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:** [January 22, 2015, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-garden-weed-tx-usa/710535/5 "2015-01-22T13:08:30Z")
No…that’s a Composite. Gaillardia seems as good a guess as any. But it’s definitely in the Compositae…the leaves immediately reminded me of Chrysanthemum. ---
**Author:** ![Ionizer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5daacb/32.png) [@Ionizer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ionizer)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2015, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/please-id-this-garden-weed-tx-usa/710535/6 "2015-01-23T16:08:16Z")
Here’s a [close-up of a youngish Gaillardia](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/74/Gaillardia_%27Oranges_and_Lemons%27_Leaves_and_Flower.jpg) from Google image search. Looks pretty darn close-enough for saying more-likely Gaillardia, IMHO. Leaves generally vary a bit (of mant flowering species, IME, during maturing period, so its hard to say exactly, of course.