Help me identify this plant...

Not positive and I’m still looking, but it immediately reminds me of some kind of mint leaf: http://blog.beliefnet.com/freshliving/mint-leaves.jpg

The outside structure of the leaves are almost identical, but I think the leaves in your pictures might have ridges and bumps to smooth to be mint.

I thought it was mint as well. I took a leaf off of it, smell it and tasted it and it doesn’t seem like any mint I have ever seen.

It does look kind of mint-y, but the mint I know doesn’t grow like that. As in DrasticDreamer‘s link, the leaves grow opposite each other from the stem. The leaves actually remind me of strawberry leaves, but unless it’s a mutant strawberry plant, that’s not it.

Where do you live?

I don’t know. But try to smoke it.

INTERESTING….

It is right by my strawberry plants but those ones are completely different. The strawberries have rounder fatter leaves and lay on the ground not like this that has taller woody trunk.

Yeah, that’s what I mean by it needing to be a mutant to be strawberry. Strawberry has runners and stays close to the ground, plus the leaves are rounder-lobed. I don’t know why, but it kind of reminds me of some berry plant, but I don’t see thorns and I can’t think of what it could be..

If you tell me what state or area you live in, I can try to use a plant identification key.

They are not the leaves we use to make dolmades , maybe?

@AlenaD I’m in Southern California.

There is a Cayenne pepper plant on the other side of it. The mystery plant has a similar structure to the peppers but the leaves are very different.

I did a cursory plant key check and it didn’t turn up any species.. have to go to work now, but if no one else is able to ID the plant, I’ll try again later. :)

Maybe these will help:

http://weeds.nmsu.edu/weedid.php
http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/weeds_intro.html

@syz Where’s getting close. It’s like the Western Raspberry but it doesn’t have thorns.

It looks like a variety of nettle, but if you tasted it without ill effects then it probably isn’t. Although they do use some nettles in salads.

@simone54: Are the stems square-shaped? There are hundreds of members of the mint family; many of them are not aromatic but none of them have round stems. Leaves are opposite: hard to tell about yours from photo.

Many pics here: http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com/Plant_Families/Lamiaceae.htm

It’s not a mint, it is in the Rose family (Rosaceae). You can tell by the stipules (seen in the second picture you posted). It’s some type of berry, and I’m 99% sure it is a species of raspberry.

Yay! I’m glad I’m not alone here.. it totally reminds me of a raspberry plant, but no thorns?

@AlenaD There are many species of raspberries, some with and some without thorns.

Did not know that. Cool. :)

Looks like marijuana to me.

The leaf does not look like either the cultivated or wild raspberries around here (NE). I love learning one new thing before breakfast…today it was “stipules.”

Here are images of leaves of red, black, yellow and wild rasbperries.

Ohhh wow. All the raspberry leaves are on opposites. The ones on my plant are alternating.

I bet that if you took several leaves to a botanist at Balboa Park ( http://www.balboapark.org/in-the-park/organizations.php?catID=8)
s/he could ID it for you. I would call first to see whether there is a botanist on call.

Contact info

Here the Cornell Aggie extension will do that. They even have a drop box for weird insects.

That’s is awesome. I’m going to do that.

Make sure you let us know, or at least let me know. I am haunted by not knowing.

I would love to know as well.

I did what galicalled said to do. I went to Balboa Park. There just happened to be an random exhibit about plants. I ask a women that was running things if she could ID it for me….

Man… We all were way off… I didn’t consider the fact that it could be a tree… It’s an Elm Tree.

@simone54 Wow, I’m gonna have to work on my plant ID skills! Thanks for the update.

@simone54: Holy Elm Tree Stipule! That was embarrassing. But thanks for solving the mystery.

Wow. I’m doubly embarrassed, considering I took Dendrology. :P

@AlenaD: Thank you for my new word of the day; dendrology.

@gailcalled Yes I just looked that up too

They lady was awesome that I should it too. She took no more then 5 seconds to know what it was.

I wish I would thought that it could be a tree. I would have figured it out. It’s daddy it’s about 20 feet away from it.

@simone54 : How tall is Big Daddy Elm? And do you know what kind of Elm it is? Is it resistant to Dutch Elm disease?

Ten species listed below:

http://www.elmcare.com/about_elms/species/elm_species.htm

It’s not huge but it’s a nice tree. I’m not sure what species.