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    What's this? The deer seem to love it. Every clump I found had been snipped like this one. It has a very square stem with sharp corners.
    deer weed.jpg

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    Looks like verbena...

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    DUCKMAN told me what it was once but can’t remember what he called it. I think he included the word “buck” in there somewhere. And the deers around here love it.
    I had an ant farm once......them fellas didn't grow shit.

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    It’s a mint. Probably bugleweed.

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    Interested as well because like you said everywhere I see it, the deer mow it down.

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    Crush some leaves and smell them. It’s either mint family or Verbena family.

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    There is an app for iPhone called "picture this" and you can take a picture of any plant or leave and it is very accurate at identifying it. I use it all the time.

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    It is, oddly enough, squarestem. Deer do love it. It produces small blue flowers all summer long. Butterflies love it too.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GMAC View Post
    It is, oddly enough, squarestem. Deer do love it. It produces small blue flowers all summer long. Butterflies love it too.
    That's certainly a good name for it. I searched online for "squarestem" and get pictures of "Snow squarestem" that has white flowers and differently shaped leaves. There are many different varieties and I suspect this is not snow squarestem. I'll try to find some with flowers. The deer haven't let any get tall enough to flower.

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    "Squarestem" is colloquial. The flowers will be purple when the deer move on to something else. Someone will be along to give us the proper scientific name...

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    Quote Originally Posted by localboy View Post
    There is an app for iPhone called "picture this" and you can take a picture of any plant or leave and it is very accurate at identifying it. I use it all the time.
    Thanks for this. I played with this app yesterday and it was very accurate at least on what I tried it on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by banded_mallard View Post
    Thanks for this. I played with this app yesterday and it was very accurate at least on what I tried it on.
    Take a picture of the original picture in this thread and tell us what it says.

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    That sure looks like it. Your picture looks like it has fuzzier leaves and stem but it had been raining when I took the original picts. I'll look harder for one in bloom next time I'm out. Thanks.

    BTW, JABIII guessed it right first with Verbena (bonariensis).
    Last edited by Palmetto Bug; 04-14-2020 at 10:41 AM.

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