NAME THAT PLANT

Not really. Passionflower is used for anxiety and I've heard of people using it for seizures but no idea if there's any real relief. There's some plants listed at http://epilepsy.med.nyu.edu/diagnosis-treatment/alternative-therapies#sthash.nKZS5aaW.dpbs but I'd want to do the decoctions with someone experienced because some of those plants (Lily of the Valley, Yew) are poisonous.

 

That is a scary list DW. Not only does it list lily of the valley but also Mistletoe. Some varieties are very poisonous. I would definitely research before trying anything on that herbal treatment list.

 

@ghrit Are they attached? Or single stalk? Could be a broafleaf- mallow which is just a weed. Does it flower?

 

@ghrit I'd have to get my hands on it ... looks like young henbit but you said it's a creeping vine low to the ground so that rules that out.

@Motomom34 a lot of herbs used in traditional remedies ARE poisonous. Like wormwood... you can deworm yourself with it, or give yourself kidney failure. The art of getting it right is all but lost these days.

@Brokor that's a mulberry tree. Shallow, long running roots mean plant at least 40 ft away from any foundation or underground pipes.

 

@ghrit, it looks like a plant that we call "creeping charlie" down here in my neck of the woods.It is a weed that can eventually take over your yard. It is good for animal feed for horses, cows, etc...
Some old folks supposedly use it as a type of "greens" for eating. Never tried it and I don't know if it is true that it is edible.

 

This should be an easy one.

This is a perennial clumping grass that spreads by both seed and stems. Originally brought to the Americas as a forage crop, now considered a noxious weed that will both choke out other crops and poison livestock under the right (or wrong) conditions.

 

Nope.

This grass, while happy to spring up in soggy bar ditches and irrigated fields, will also appear in dryland. Some farmers grow it intentionally for hay, but heat stress and frost can render it toxic.

 

Johnson grass.

 

Give the man a kewpie doll!

I nearly lost a good reining mare to heat stressed Johnson grass. She'd reached through the fence to eat it, ended up at the vet with an IV for over a week. Vet told me afterwards he really didn't think she'd make it and that I got lucky. Went on a Johnsongrass eradication frenzy after that.

 

Growing up in Parker county Texas, the unrivaled capitol of the universe for that stuff. Plowed,disked,shredded, and hoed my youth away on it. Even today driving by an uncontrolled patch of it breaks me out in a cold sweat and causes me to grieve.

 

I was in Erath County at the time. Much further north now and hadn't seen a lot of it until this year. A big patch sprouted up in our back yard. I rerouted the chicken yard to allow them access to it and they pretty much destroyed it before it got very big.