Ouachita
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Wife and I have seen it before, but have never noticed it on our place. This area is recently cleared timber land.
What is this?
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Stickney94
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I believe it's common mullein. It's a native plant that returned up around here 3-4 years ago. Any chance you live near a railroad? A few years ago BNSF seeded via hellicopter native plants up and down the rail line. It worked really well -- I suspect that is where ours came from. Ironically, two years later they came back with a hellicopter and sprayed some herbicide with residual that killed everything for 2 years.
rocket2222
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Yeah mullein, good for ya so they say, makes good tea and you can smoke it too.
Jeanne - Simme Valley
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It's out here also.
Ouachita
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Oh Lordy…..my wife is into natural remedies, lotions and oils (the essential ones
), and I like to occasionally smoke.Hpacres440p
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Considered invasive in CO-the brush composting places wouldn't take anything with evidence of it mixed in. Grows very quickly
Do cattle eat it readily or relutantly?
rocket2222
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I've never seen a cow eat one. I typically spay them with weed killer when I see them.
Logan52
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Mullien. Here it mainly grows alongside unmowed roadsides and banks of ditches. I once had a neighbor that dug them up and transplanted them to a bank behind his house. I think he used them as a sort of herb. He was from the mountains and into that sort of thing.
kenny thomas
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Yes common mullen. Its common to see it where timber had been cut.
50/50Farms
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Agree with the others, it's a mullein. I read somewhere once that they can kill fish or something, I don't know.
GoWyo
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Nothing eats them. They are annoying when they cure out. Just mow them off.
Sold some beef to some older hippies last year. They had gallons of dried Mullen, ground up, and mixed 50/50 with marijuana. Claimed the husband has bad lung problems and smoking that mixture kept him from going to the doctor/ER much at all.
They had herb containers lining the walls. Learned a good bit.
They had herb containers lining the walls. Learned a good bit.
Not sure how smoking anything would help your lungs! LOL
Ebenezer
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Dried mullein flowers made into a tea is supposed to be good for a cough. Never tried it.
My exact thoughts!!! Would make for speedy delivery though...
redcowsrule33
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It's actually from Eurasia and considered to be invasive. We don't have enough to consider it a problem. Was at a pasture walk and they said it was valuable as the deep tap root brings up nutrients. Not sure if that's true or it just makes you feel better about having weeds in your pasture 
. Bees like it in the morning.
. Bees like it in the morning.Ebenezer
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"...it was valuable as the deep tap root brings up nutrients." Another verse to the song "don't worry, be happy"! That is what 99% of all weed growers say each morning as they look in the mirror.
1982vett
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Don't forget about the organic matter the roots leave behind.
