Anyone help identify this plant? (1 Viewer)

[CRyan]

Can anyone help identify this "tree?" I am having a hard time figuring it out.

• It is extremely aggressive
• Sprouts new trees from its root system. So it is coming up everywhere.
• The trunks dont seem to get much thicker - just grows taller (almost like bamboo).
• There are now around 40 of them growing in this location - some 15' tall.
• Long pointy leaves.
• Grows well in very wet conditions (growing here next to a creek).

 

[TonyD]

bamboo

 

[CRyan]

I am fairly certain it is not bamboo. The trunk is not segmented in any way - Nor does it leaf from the trunk. Unless you can point me in the direction of a bamboo variety I am not familiar with?

What is in my yard looks nothing like this...

 

[Dennis Nicholls]

CRyan,

It would help if you posted where you live when you ask a question about plants.

That sure looks like a weeping willow tree to me. Those dadburn things gum up all the smaller irrigation canals around here.

http://www.plantcare.com/encyclopedia/weeping-willow-2220.aspx

Your photos were taken in bad light so it's difficult to be sure. A common variety of weeping willow has green leaves and yellow stems like this:

 

[CRyan]

The leaves are certainly willow like. Its just odd how this plant grows up from its roots. I wasnt aware of a species of Willow that did that.

Oh and I didnt realize the forum does not have location listed under the names anymore. It is in Tennessee.

 

[Bryan X]

It looks like a fernleaf buckthorn.

 

[Greg_S_H]

Originally Posted by Bryan X

It looks like a fernleaf buckthorn.

Wasn't he one of Harry Potter's Defense Against the Dark Arts teachers?

 

[Scott McGillivray]

Glad I found this thread. I moved out to Vancouver Island and saw this interesting plant in my back yard area which borders a forest.
I have been searching around, but cannot figure out what it is. Therefore, I came to seek wisdom from you sage wizards.

 

[Scott McGillivray]

Never mind...my sister figured it out. No idea how, but she got it.
It is called Mullein. I had never heard of it, nor seen it before. Looks like it can grow to an impressive size!

https://www.jlindquist.com/mullein.html

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I’ve heard of that! I think it’s sometimes used in herbal non-tobacco cigarettes.