100 Species: 31-40

What is this? Here is the first post: 100 Species. Today, mostly weeds, and a few garden plants:

31. Tomatoes: I planted a random assortment this year. In better years, I grow black tomatoes because they are smoky.

32. Jalapeno peppers

33. dandelion: I like dandelions.

34. plantain--not the banana-like fruit. The yard weed with broad leaves and the weird cone-shaped flowers.

35. Indian strawberry (aka "wild" strawberry): invasive foreign weed that tries to take over my lawn every year. It is Indian, like, from India. It has berries which have no taste, but they are not poisonous. Pesky little plant (especially considering that I wasn't too great at growing the real strawberries...

36. Wild violet: when I tell people I'm fighting wild violets, they often give me an "aww" look. "I wish I had violets in my yard!" They'll say. But they don't know what they're talking about...

37. basil

38. parsley: I plant the flat leaf variety. The second year (it's biennial, I believe) it is always way too strong.

39. Virginia Creeper: often confused with poison ivy, this has five-leaflet cluster leaves (but young shoots sometimes have three), climbs vigorously up any surface, and nearly took down my back porch from the inside out. It can grow in the dark.

40. morning glories. Once upon a time someone planted morning glories and the seeds got into my compost and now I fight them all the time. At least, like the violets, they have flowers.

That was a quick easy dash off. Next time, I'll do some lesser known weeds and some trees from Tower Grove Park.