Weeds

[Walkin Horse]

What is this weed

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[smstonypoint]

It looks like jimson weed to me.

Steve

 

[wngsprd]

It looks like jimson weed to me.

Steve

I agree. I find them here from time to time.

 

[Walkin Horse]

Thanks. Roundup will kill it but I have to stay on top of it. I guess those little burrs bust open and it spreads then another dose of round up.

 

[J35]

I knew a old Mexican man in Arivaca AZ

He told me it was good for asthma he called it Toloache.

I thought he was just a ignorant old fool

But then I did a search just now and found this.

Medicinal Plants of the SW: Datura stramonium

I guess I am the ignorant one

------J

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Also known as Thornapple or Moonflower. I have 3 of them in my yard; they produce some pretty blooms early in the morning. The seeds are toxic, and as I recall, the leaves and stems may be also. They come back every year; I just cut them down in the fall. We consider them to be an interesting ornamental.

 

[smstonypoint]

Also known as Thornapple or Moonflower.

And locoweed for hallucinogenic properties (Datura stramonium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Steve

 

[2LaneCruzer]

And locoweed for hallucinogenic properties (Datura stramonium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)

Steve

From the article:

"There is a high risk of fatal overdose amongst uninformed users, and many hospitalizations occur amongst recreational users who ingest the plant for its psychoactive effects."

It was on the news here a couple of years ago; some kid swallowed a bunch of seeds and ended up in the emergency room.

 

[Ken45101]

Yes, as a past EMT, we hauled a few of them to the ER.

 

[Walkin Horse]

I just read the article. Apparently it will cure colds moles and sore a holes. When I saw the name loco weed I had to laugh. Most of the weed is growing in a horse paddock. I remember seeing a movie one time where Burt Lancasters horse ate some and he had to ride it out.

So is the best treatment round up or dig and remove. I thought about burning them but I that might make the seed spread. After they have been sprayed the bigger ones linger for awhile. This stuff was probably brought in to my place in a load of hay. It has been spreading for 2 or 3 years.

 

[farmer2009]

Try a 2, 4-D or dicamba. As roundup can struggle with small seeded broadleafs.

 

[Walkin Horse]

I have some Gordon's Trimec 2-4-d. I have always used roundup because it's safe to use around the horses. I not sure that 2-4-d is something I can spray in the paddocks without taking the horses out for a awhile.

 

[farmer2009]

The Gordon's you mention only has a lawn label. But after checking other products with Ag labels there is no mention of a grazing restriction. Only a haying restriction of 7 days. We spray with cattle in the feild all the time with no problems.

 

[OldMcDonald]

I find glyphosate (Roundup etc) kills it very easily. I still get the odd seed germinating, but very few, and had quite a lot when we moved here in 2003. When I was in NSW, Australia in the 1980s my neighbours called it Castor Oil Plant. It is not of course, but they gave it the same name.

 

[Pete Judd]

In areas, that I have weeds, and black berrys, I mix both glyposate and 2-4-d in the sprayer, and every thing is dead along the path of the spray. Real quick.

 

[dragoneggs]

Also known as Thornapple or Moonflower. I have 3 of them in my yard; they produce some pretty blooms early in the morning. The seeds are toxic, and as I recall, the leaves and stems may be also. They come back every year; I just cut them down in the fall. We consider them to be an interesting ornamental.

Toxic is the best medicine... it kills what it treats :doctor:

 

[Walkin Horse]

I'm going to try the roundup and 24d mix today. I will let you know how it works for me.

 

[Walkin Horse]

I wonder if I smoked it if would help my hemroids. So far not knowing what it was I guess I have been lucky that the horse haven't tried it.

 

[smstonypoint]

I wonder if I smoked it if would help my hemroids.

No. But I have read that using the leaves as toilet paper will do the trick. Please try this and report back.

Steve