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Questions and Answers: 2016

Question: This plant is sprouting from roots all over a client's lawn. They have mowed it and spray repeatedly with roundup. …

  • Question

    This plant is sprouting from roots all over a client's lawn. They have mowed it and spray repeatedly with roundup. :( I told them that they would not be able to get rid of it that way. I suspect that these are from the roots of an elm that is not longer with us (above ground in any case). They do not know what their street tree used to be, but that is what I suspect. The leaves on these are small, but the plant is not allowed to get bigger. Help in ID would be great!

    Answer

    Dear kriskrash, Go Botany is currently experiencing a glitch that is preventing multiple images from being uploaded (it repeats the first image in each subsequent image). If you would attach these three images to an email and send them to ahaines[at]newenglandwild.org, I would be happy to help you with your identification request.