Name this plant!

yoda4561

yoda4561

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Found this in our yard today near the garden, my google-fu isn't helping me this time. It has a faint but pleasant smell, bees love it, just dunno if it's an invasive or how to properly kill/cultivate it depending.

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Anyone have a suggestion if it's a girl?? I'm terrible at naming fish, much less plants.
 
Almost looks like an african violet.

How big is it?

And what ever you do, don't use it as toilet paper before doing a skin test. :D If you would like to more about this subject, ask Codger about Skunk Cabbage. :D
 
Could be a wild begonia? Check these out, there is a ton of variations.

Being in Florida where everything will grow, I would think plants in general are invasive. :D

Checked outside to compare and most plants are brown in color after having below zero wind chill for the last few days. :D
 
I first looked into Catnip and then into a wild mint, but couldn't match up the flower.
 
Yeah I was stumped till I wandered onto that page. the 2nd one down (sacramento bur) is almost a perfect match aside from the flower color.
 
I see.

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http://turfwiki.org/wiki/index.php?title=Triumfetta_semitriloba

So are you going the use Roundup or Diesel? :D
 
I've been looking at the invasive/not invasive lists, that's the first one I've seen saying it's invasive in FL. All the stuff I've found says it's native to Florida/Virgin Islands and an invasive on all the other islands it's managed to migrate to.
 
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