Guess the Weed (Macro)

Life has got in the way of photography for quite a while. However, today the withdrawal symptoms from macro photography finally overcame the pressure to do what needs doing and this evening I found a little weed in a flower pot and took its picture. Well, took a lot of pictures actually because the only way to treat the withdrawal symptoms was to create a focus stack. After a couple of hours of fiddling with the macro rig, taking 122 photos with the K3 + Laowa 25mm @ x2.5 and crunching them through Affinity Photo 2 on a hard working computer, the result emerged. And here it is. Not the best stack I've ever done, but more than adequate as treatment for the withdrawal symptoms .

So... can you guess what the weed is?




Steve

According to Google, Acera or witches brew?

Google is wrong - who'd have believed it possible??

Steve

I wasn't going to post early, but if we're cheating, my search came up with smartweed aka knotweed

I didn't know until I googled it, well done on the 122 image stack

Whatever you used for your search is also wrong.

Wow, ok still well done on the stack

Just be glad it's not Japanese Knotweed, that's a nightmare.

Hairy cress? .......... You can eat it but it doesn't 'taste', one way or another.

Correct! Hairy bittercress in my book. How on earth did you get it????

For those who don't know, it's a small plant consisting of a rosette of leaves near the ground and bare, vertical stalks with tiny (few mm) white flowers at the top. After a flower has been fertilised, it grows a long, thin seed pod. When ripe, the seed pod bursts open, scattering miniscule seeds all over the place. The photo shows a seed pod growing from a fertilised flower. It's been growing steadily since the photo was taken.

Steve

They do serve to bulk up a salad bowl. You pull up the entire plant(s), snip off the root, wash it and chuck it (them) in whole. It's more texture than taste.

I'm up for it . Not sure that Mrs L will be, though...

Steve