Queen Annes Lace and Ox Eye Daisy

I had recieved these seeds froma native gardenand I know I should not have but I planted them - they have for the most part been great garden plants but they are just in their first year here. In talking to Equllibrium I have learned that these are not native at all - never questioned it form the source! - and was suggested to head over here and ask for web sites to help the native gardeners here.

Although alien and aggressive- neither of those plants are considered invasive - as far as I now...

Have fun controlling the daisy ;- )

I have heard that the daisy is hard to control... I have seen it in the garden I picked the seeds from so I had some ideas how to control them.

Hey Mitch, the thing about these two is all in where you live, I think. I let them grow here, but as I mentioned in the Bull Thistle thread, we have heavy clay, and our land is quite intensively farmed, so they pop up in the fields but don't really have much chance to become real pests. It is possibly different in other areas of the country. I suspect that these have been here pretty much as long as the first colonists, and while I can call myself a native, they will be forever banned from that title.

And as joepyeweed said, have fun with the daisies. I'm just finishing my yearly ripping out, probably a couple hundred plants that love to grace my well drained and fertile raised rock beds. I go through it every year, becuase when they bloom and fill in that empty space left by the late spring flowers, I'm grateful. It doesn't seem to bother them that I then proceed to tear them out when the summer flowers come on, they are always back the next year.

Ahh - see I have hard hard clay and I am not making it better so the native plants like it here.... they may not have problems here. Still want to know more about them here and how they got here

Queen Anne's Lace grows as a bi annual ( first year veg growth) here in Canada zone 5. It is the seeds that spread to make the plants invasive not the roots. They grow here abundantly in abandoned lots and along the hwys. I have noticed that they seemed to be everywhere the Spring that we had tons of rain last year. So alot of rain is a factor on well these survive. This year they are sparse, not so much rain.
A beautiful flower. Many gardeners are adding them to their garden beds. To control them, just dead head before the seeds form....when the flower head curls inward. ~Josie

Queen Anne's Lace was formally identified as a noxious weed a long time ago. It was also formally identified as an invasive species a while ago too.
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=DACA6

Same deal with the Ox Eye Daisy-
http://plants.usda.gov/java/nameSearch

Just scroll down to the bottom of each link and tons of websites will pop up that you can research.

Because of their unprecedented ability to set seed even under adverse conditions as described by JosieP, these two plants are right up there with Dame's Rocket and several of the Hawkweeds.
http://plants.usda.gov/java/nameSearch
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=HIAU
http://plants.usda.gov/java/profile?symbol=HICA10

Many of these plants end up in Wildflower mixes (which people confuse with Native Plant Mixes) sold everywhere from Lowes to the corner nursery. I have been told these species are included in "Wildflower" mixes because their seed is so readily available and used as a junk filler to increase profits. Their ability to "naturalize" in seemingly inhospitable environments is unparalleled and "naturalizing" is just what they are doing.

I find these plants pull out of the ground by hand quite well after a nice rain. I have removed thousands of them and that is no exaggeration. My neighbor is now removing them too which is a big help because her plants aren't reseeding onto my property.

Queen Anne's Lace is one of the first wild plants my grandmother taught me to identify. This was nearly 6 decades ago. I see less and less of it now along roadways and in open fields. It is easily removed. It would seem that the numbers here are dwindling. I don't grow it, but frankly, in this locality, I don't think of it as a problem weed. Equil, the first USDA link doesn't work - was that for Queen Ann's Lace?

Yes, you can just go to their site and type in the words Daucus carota then click go and it will pull up what I was trying to hyperlink to regarding Queen Anne's Lace.

Volunteers are going out and hand pulling it from the roadsides and natural areas around here and trying to get as much as they can get before it sets seed. It is very easy to hand pull which has been a big help knocking it back.

Thanks Equ - that is just the info i needed to know.