This is blooming everywhere in DFW right now and I’m curious what it’s called.
So… what’s this pretty lil’ thang called?
Looks like it’s henbit
Edit: This is the website I used to find it.
I didn’t click on your link but I can say this is going to be an extinct wildflower once the great destroyer of earth Trump does away EPA and put up pipe lines across the whole country ! So enjoy while it last !
Purplehearingaid I’m not sure why you thought this was an appropriate reply. Do not drop political comments into unrelated threads.
Yes, it’s henbit, somewhat attractive but weedy scourge of many a garden.
It will undoubtedly survive anything (environmental, political, nuclear) that could possibly be thrown at it.
Turek
March 5, 2017, 4:38pm
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Jackmannii:
Yes, it’s henbit, somewhat attractive but weedy scourge of many a garden.
It will undoubtedly survive anything (environmental, political, nuclear) that could possibly be thrown at it.
However, properly applied pre-emergent weed killer can knock it out in a couple of years.
The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center has the skinny on henbit .
QUESTION: I’ve read in this book “Native Alternatives to Invasive Plants” that Henbit is an invasive plant in Texas. I’ve also read that it provides an early source of nectar to bees and butterflies when little else is blooming. What to do about the Henbit in our large backyard? It’s mostly tall grasses, some buffalo grasses, some weed grasses, some wildflowers I am trying to establish. We have straggler daisy in the front yard. This is not an urgent question, whenever you get a chance I appreciate your time, thank you very much.
ANSWER: According to this article from Invasives.org , * Lamium amplexicaule* (Henbit) is, indeed an invasive weed in Texas. Of course, it is a member of the mint family, all of which are considered pushy to downright invasive, so you could always eat it. From Eat the Weeds Henbit: The Top of the Pecking Order. However, it is also not native to North America, but to Europe, western Asia and northern Africa, so it would not appear in our Native Plant Database, and is out of our scope.
According to this USDA Plant Profile Map, henbit does grow in Travis and Williamson counties. If you consider it an advantage to wildlife and it is not crowding anything else out of your garden, there seems to be no reason to try to eliminate it.
(Elsewhere at the site, we learn that wildflower season is starting early in Texas, due to the warm winter & plentiful rain. But most Texans already noticed.)
Weedy
March 5, 2017, 9:27pm
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It’s reddit, but the posters at What’s This Plant can identify almost everything.
Pretty!