What's that one plant that annoys you?

And I'm not talking about weeds or invasives or plants that cause problems in your garden/yard. I'm talking about that plant that annoys you for trivial or no reason at all.

For example, my annoying plant is the gum tree (Liquidamber). I just...dislike that tree so much. Those annoying, pointy seed pods just litter the ground and you step on them and trip yourself, or you sit on one during a picnic or something else annoying and/or painful. I'm sure the trees are useful. Apparently the wood is good for furniture, and the resin can be a chewing gum replacement, and I don't care. If I ever buy a house/land and it has a gum tree, that's the first thing to go. I might legitimately choose not to buy land with a gum tree on it if I have other options. They're just...annoying.

So what's your annoying plant?

Almost any plant that has nothing but ornamental value. Attracts pollinators? Awesome. Great host to fungi? Fantastic. Mosquito repellent, sturdy or thorny hedge, nitrogen fixer...? Vunderbar!! Developed for its purty foliage, but toxic, not good to compost, crappy wood, no medicinal or food value, etc? No thanks.

Stunted parking lot trees.  You'd think it would be an upgrade to replace bushes with trees.  For safety and mobility issues it has been a big improvement but it's been nearly ten years and these are all native trees that typically get 20-30 feet tall with good spreading canopies.   These seem to be maxing out at 15 feet and the canopies aren't spreading enough for meaningful shade.

I just hope they are growing slowly so I'm not noticing.   The only trees in my yard that haven't out grown these are espaliar pears planted in the shades spot in the yard.  Even the espaliar peaches which have been severely cut back several times equal their height and at least triple their shade cover.

Edited to add

Mixed oak species and cedar elm

Fucking English Ivy!

Almost all plants have value in our lives.

Most plants and trees are edible, provide shade, and help add oxygen to the air.

Trees provide a place for mushrooms to grow.

USDA said, Through a process called photosynthesis, leaves pull in carbon dioxide and water and use the energy of the sun to convert this into chemical compounds such as sugars that feed the tree. But as a by-product of that chemical reaction oxygen is produced and released by the tree

I have never owned a mulberry tree though as a child these trees left the sidewalk with dropped berries which I remember being messy to walk on.

To answer the question:

"What's that one plant that annoys you?"

I would say mulberry trees, though it has been many years since I have seen one.

Anne Miller wrote:Almost all plants have value in our lives.

Most plants and trees are edible, provide shade, and help add oxygen to the air.

Trees provide a place for mushrooms to grow.

Oh, I agree 100%! Even gum trees have their uses. Doesn't mean I have to like them! I guess that's what I mean by 'annoying'. For some plants, it's a bit like some members of your family. You love them, but they annoy the heck out of you, and they couldn't pay you to live with them. There is a large gum tree in the park near the community garden I work in and while I could sit underneath it for some shade, usually i give it a side-eye and go sit underneath the maple.

Creeping buttercup. The flowers are pretty enough, but the plant creeps me out...

Torilis arvensis aka Spreading hedgeparsley or "Tall sock destroyer".

I have been trying to eliminate this plant from our clearing.  I don't imagine it hurts the ecosystem, but the burs it makes stick to my leg hair or my socks (hence its name) and are very time consuming to remove.  This year I've spent probably eight hours pulling it all over the place, it seems to be everywhere.  Hopefully after a few years of that, the seed bank will have run out of steam and there won't be much of it.  The first summer I encountered this plant, I probably spent more than those eight hours just removing burs from things.

 Turns out I seem to be mildly allergic to it, since after pulling lots of it I was getting very itchy arms and lots of nasal congestion.  

The nice thing is it pulls out of the ground quite easily.  The hard part is when there's a dense mat of it on the ground level underneath other, larger plants.  Then it's hard to get it all out.

Howdy

"I have never owned a mulberry tree though as a child these trees left the sidewalk with dropped berries which I remember being messy to walk on."  Anne Miller

and then one day, on a river rafting trip through oregon, we float thru an old homestead with a MULBERRY tree, loaded with ripe berries, so I make mulberry pancakes for breakfast, 20 people...

For me it would be blackberries, I do pick can and freeze, but am also always trying to keep them at bay, back get back...

Hedge parsley will always come back in because it travels on animals fur.  It can be manager here where it's seasonal.  It's easy to find when it blooms both because of the flowers and the added height of the bloom stalks. Designate a manageable section the first year and each year after expand from there.  We keep our front yard and most used sections of the back clear but don't quite manage the far back corner. Luckily rabbits love it and we'll try it on chickens next spring.