One of the things I’ve been struggling with on our 100 Species Challenge is finding a good way to identify plants that I’m not familiar with at all. I’ve looked for a good (or a couple of good) book resources but have thus far come up empty. Part of the problem there is that I like full color plant identification books and weeds are often not given that much love and attention!

So here is my first mystery plant. That I’m not having a good time finding any hints on:

It doesn’t get much bigger than that of course this particular specimen was located in a heavy traffic area so it may have been stunted. Any guesses as to what it is?