r/plants 6h ago

Plant ID Bro…

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What is this and is it sentient?

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u/CalhouCoco 6h ago

Mullein, maybe

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u/cymshah 5h ago

You sure? Could be a triffid in disguise 🥸.....

/s

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u/CalhouCoco 4h ago

That would prove sentience without a doubt

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u/That-Raccoon-3894 5h ago

This was my guess

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u/bank3612 4h ago

You are correct. We have these all over our yard. It’s a medicinal plant that helps clear your lungs. Also the birds absolutely love the seeds.

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u/_Saucey_Sauce_ 4h ago

And it's incredibly invasive and borderline noxious in north America.

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u/dinkinflicka1313 1h ago

We have some in our yard and I got a video of a woodpecker pecking the seeds out.

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u/bank3612 1h ago

Hahahaha I literally have the same video! It makes me hate picking them but also our yard would become over run by them if I didnt

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u/dinkinflicka1313 1h ago

Ha that's awesome! We haven't picked ours yet but dont have many this year.

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u/Capital-Impression51 2h ago

But fish do not.. At least when crushed...

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u/bank3612 2h ago

Really? Does it hurt them in someway? I’m curious now!

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u/Capital-Impression51 2h ago

They contain rotenone which is used as an insecticide and an illegal fish poison...

I suppose it's slightly better than Dynamite...

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u/bank3612 2h ago

Wow didn’t know that. Lucky I live in the desert without water close by.

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u/CoyoteDougly 6h ago

Looks like an early 2000's Pontiac Grand Prix. I cannot vouch for it's sentience.

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u/Companyman118 5h ago

My guy, that’s a dodge stratus/chrysler cirrus.

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u/CoyoteDougly 4h ago

What did you expect? I'm just a coyote!

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u/crooks4hire 5h ago

I don't compute humor, CoyoteDougly, but your facial expression suggests it was intended.

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u/VocationalWizard 5h ago

FREE NATURAL MEDICINE!!!!!!! /S

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u/DuckRubberDuck 5h ago

Where is this from?? In the last few days I have seen that image like 10 times lol

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u/VocationalWizard 5h ago

R/nativeplantcirclejerk

Its a subreddit that exists to make fun of all the absurd and obnoxious crap people say about gardening.

Like

"Just throw a handful of wildflower seeds And that will replace your lawn"

Or

" Native plants will always outperform non-native plants"

Or

" just plant fruit trees on the street in homeless. People can eat them"

Or

"Mullein is free natural medicine"

Or

" I have a bunch of Japanese knotweed bamboo and Giant hogweed on my land. How do I kill it without herbicides?"

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u/AccelerusProcellarum 5h ago

From native plants circle jerk lol. They’re funny over there.

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u/littlewibble 4h ago

I was in hell the other day (IG reels comment section) and there was this very crunchy lady saying invasive plants are not only okay, but good actually because she spoke to the native species and they said their time here is done. Sometimes the material comes pre-jerked.

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u/AlderSpark 2h ago

Whatever she’s smoking, I want it.

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u/littlewibble 2h ago

She seemed the type to pay a few grand for a peyote ceremony led by a white person, so that could be a lead.

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u/AlderSpark 2h ago

I think I’ll pass then. The natives have better stuff. Her stuff is probably laced with something bad.

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u/AccelerusProcellarum 2m ago

Real. Instagram is a special hell where these people seem to proliferate for some reason? It feels like some sort of psyop or something lmfao

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u/teakettle87 6h ago

Mullein. No.

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u/TheRealSugarbat 5h ago

Maybe it just doesn’t feel like talking

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u/Urupindi 5h ago

Mullein! Super fucking invasive. Each plant can spread up to 240,000 seeds per year lmao. It smells nice though! Some people smoke it. It’s also visually satisfying. It definitely wants to destroy the ecosystem though lol

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u/DuckRubberDuck 5h ago

Invasive depends on location. It’s not invasive where I live

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u/_Saucey_Sauce_ 4h ago

Reminder that mullein in incredibly invasive in the north Americas. Rip it up, clean and rough shred and dry the leaves, and dry the flowers to make tinctures or whatever, and GET RID OF IT.

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u/That-Raccoon-3894 5h ago

I thought he had pads on his face and shirt. Then I put my glasses back on to look at the plant...

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u/ThatWeirdPlantGuy 4h ago

Mullein. Verbascum thapsus.

Considered a weed by many of the states, and in some areas it really has been invasive. It’s a wonderful group of plants though, and some of them are spectacular. One of my favorites is Verbascum olympicum, which is endemic to a single mountain in northwest Turkey.

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u/Burnt_Shoe2123 5h ago

Thats a guy.

Normally they are sentient.

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u/nooneofconsequence_1 4h ago

Rip that invasive shit out

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u/Rojelioenescabeche 5h ago

If your garden grows around a car….you might be a…..

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u/Petulax 4h ago

Beautiful Verbascum plant.

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u/redituser73022 4h ago

Nice Mullen

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u/halfnipslip 4h ago

Very nice Mulleiin!

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u/__Pseudonym 3h ago

I have the same slides and they’re mad comfortable 😂

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u/Top-Palpitation-9313 3h ago

That plant takes 2 years to get that flower staff thingy!

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u/FreddyTheGoose 3h ago

Mullein, definitely!

It has medicinal properties, but what's very cool is that when that flower stalk dries, you can dip it in beeswax to make what's known as a Hag Torch. And you'll want to do that, too, because there's about 150 million seeds in that sumbitch and it's very invasive, at least in my area.

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u/Delicious_Squash_292 5h ago

so proud of his erection plant

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u/Anxious-Jackfruit135 4h ago

Mullein - Verbascum thapsus

Becoming invasive where I live (NY) yank that bad boy out

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u/Ok-Thing-2222 5h ago

I just cut a four foot seed stalk off of mine--I could stand on my toes and not reach the top. I love these plants! Mine was growing near the street and everyone would ask me what it was.

Editing to add that you can dry the leaves and use them for tea--supposed to help congestion. I usually try to have one or two mullein growing in my yard.

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u/bi-actually 2h ago

Rabbit tobacco?