Anyone know what this plant is? I don't remember seeing it before, but this year I have a bunch of it. It resembles the American Burn Weed on my property, but when I look at it next to my Burn Weed it looks much different in person.

Brain Fart! I know what it is, but can't nail down the name. Grrr. Roadside plant, has a small pretty yellow flower, spreads by seed like crazy. It will come to me later.

Without seeing the leaves, it looks like wild lettuce. It has a milky sap.

Groundsel maybe......

This

Fireweed (Erechtites hieraciifolius) possibly, or horseweed (Erigeron canadensis). Looks more like fireweed but I could be wrong. Hard to tell with no leaves.

Looks like one of the king devils...check 'Hieracium'

It looks like wild lettuce to me too. It loves to grow in the gap you can't mow, next to buildings.

Keith

A picture of the leaves would help to be more certain

You can rule out Fire Weed.

Pay attention to the scientific name. Many plants have common names are the same, that's where that scientific name comes into play. I think that you are thinking of the purple flowered fireweed, that would be Chamaenerion angustifolium. I am talking about Erechtites hieraciifolius. After looking into that species further it is also called American burnweed or pilewort.

Seeing the leaves would be helpful, but what is shown looks a lot like

Lactuca
Common Name(s): Wild Lettuce
Phonetic Spelling
lak-TOO-kuh
Description
Several species of wild lettuce (Lactuca spp., Asteraceae family) are common in nurseries and landscapes and are very similar to sowthistle (Sonchus spp.). These species are winter annuals but may also germinate in the spring or summer in irrigated nursery crops or landscapes. Seedlings form a rosette of waxy leaves with variable, lobed leaf margins. Wild lettuce leaves are similar to sowthistle leaves but lack prickles on leaf margins. In warm weather, plants bolt to about 3 to 4 feet tall, but some species may reach 8 feet in height. Flowers are pale yellow and form on branched heads. Seedhead is similar to a dandelion but smaller. Seeds have a pappus that aids wind and water dispersal. Avoid letting plants go to seed. Consider a preemergence broadleaf herbicide labeled for use.

Possibly milkweed?- https://medium.com/usfws/spreading-milkweed-not-myths-5df8c480912d

Fleabane?

This is wild lettuce from my farm.



The lowest leaves are gone already. When the plant is young, it resembles domestic, leaf lettuce. It's got much more latex than domestic lettuce. It's a mild hallucinogen, that some people use medically.

Keith

you can see the sap on the bottom of Keith's pic.
used for poison ivy itch

I just got back to the truck. I've been cutting buckthorn the past few hours.

Here's a picture of the leaves. It has really small leaves. This plant seems to like the logging road we made a couple years ago. I didn't seem to have it last year, but last year we mowed early & I did not mow this year.

Try horseweed. According to Google anyways.

Here's some marestail aka horseweed, next to wild lettuce (with a hitch hiker) for comparison.



Plants can look very different over their geographic range.

Keith

That marestail is what it looks like Keith.