pasture weed

[danl]

I have a weed starting to grow in the pasture and I can't figure out what it is. Have been to numerous websites and still can't come up with it.

When it first starts growing it looks just like pine seedlings, it gets about a foot tall and has a lot of yellow flowers. I at first thought it was cypress spurge but the flowers are completely wrong and it does not have the milky sap. The flowers are pretty small, have petals and the center looks sort of like a daisy.
Cows wont touch it, which is probably good cause more than likely it's poison.

I'm in southeast mo.
If I can take a picture and figure out how to put it on here I will.
Dan

 

[jcummins]

Cell phone camera great for doing that. You can send the photo direct to the website hosting your pictures from the cell phone....i use photobucket, but there are many....then you put the link in your post here. No regular camera or pc involved in doing that.

 

[SFFarms]

Sounds to me like Western bitterweed.

Here is a link from dow agrosciences weed i.d.

http://www.dowagro.com/range/weed/wbitterweed.htm

Here is a good picture of it.

http://onlinemanuals.txdot.gov/txdotmanuals/veg/images/veg_3-57.jpg

 

[danl]

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[dun]

The first 2 appear to be the same thing. Looks like sneezeweed except the leaves are different looking. The last one is wooly croton, aka goat weed/dove weed

 

[1982vett]

Yep, yep and yep

 

[CCRanch]

2-4-d will get rid of both of them