It's not yarrow. 99.9% odds on that. I can ID yarrow.
It's amok. It's early May, still too cold to plant tomatoes, and this stuff is hip high.
It's flowering, itty itty bitty flowers.
It's definitely not edible, I have tasted it multiple times, at various stages of growth. Still yuck.
It's eating my garden. If it's not a medicinal, I'm gonna have to cull it.
I don't want to cull them and then find out they were something awesome.
Zone 6 A/B, southern Missouri.
Help!
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I visited my friend the other day and saw a plant that looked like that, also about hip high. I was very surprised to learn it was yarrow. The one I have stays short and hugs the ground. I wonder if it's a different cultivar or something? Or perhaps different conditions creating different growth habits?
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