Plant ID wanted

[s1m0n]

If I were to have a metal band, they'd be called Creeping Buttercup.

An excellent choice. I concur!

[Tyghress]

Dig up a hunk of it (with roots) and take it to your local ag extension agency, usually located with a college. They LOVE IDing stuff.

[Roderick [Rod] Sprague IV]

This is what I think it is; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erodium_cicutarium

[WyoBadger]

It's life, Jim, but not as we know it.

Looks like something in the carrot family. But I think Tyghress is on the right track.
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[Daniel_Bingamon]

There are plants in the Hemlock family that have similar looks to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conium
If it's Hemlock, you definitely don't want to consume it.

Osha is also similar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osha
Osha is used by Indians for clearing the respiratory passages and it helps with singing.

[dwest]

I haven't made a mistake in a plant id, with the plant in hand, since '65. And that was only because someone snuck a non-blooming "weed" grass species from a hort. greenhouse into the bot. lab. Why people even want lawns is beyond me in the first place but to grow invasive grass species as lawn is even stranger. I do know how to kill them though.
But I would bet a penny this is an Erodoium spp. And it ain't no Apiaceaeeeeeee...eeee.

[belnox]

Wild guess here, feverfew (tanacetum parthenium)

Picture: http://mothersearthgreenhouse.com/image ... .sized.jpg

[SteveShaw]

Looks a bit too rough and rustic for feverfew and it definitely isn't hemlock. They both stink in their own sweet ways in any case. Still not ruling out storksbill but I'm not convinced. Anyway, I could be right up sh*t cr**k without a paddle looking at this from a Eurocentric viewpoint.

[Lambchop]

Is there a reason we have to know what it is?

[monkey587]

I was curious?

I'm impressed the thread is still going on. Belnox's guess looks very much like it as far as I can tell. But there are too many options, I don't think I'd know without taking some to an expert and I'm not that motivated.

[dwest]

This is outrageous, I demand you take that plant to your extension office for id!

[dholly]

feverfew is sometimes described as very aromatic, and you said it didn't smell too much.

might be creeping buttercup, as i think was mentioned above somewhere. here is a canadian plant link to see for yourself. sounds pretty persistent!
http://www.agf.gov.bc.ca/cropprot/weedguid/butter.htm

good luck...

[SteveShaw]

If there's one certainty in this thread it is that the plant is not creeping buttercup. If it is I'll eat my hat.

[dwest]

I demand that all who say buttercup...repent! That's a botanical joke BTW. Look it up!

[SteveShaw]

I stooped to pick a buttercup.

"Hello?" I thought. "I wonder who left this buttock lying around..."