Help me identify this plant? It gives off steam?

Question

Here's a picture: http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/6330/plantfn1.jpg

It grows near my house and literally seems to give off steam. Does anyone know what it is?

Answer 1

not sure-- even though it's green, it reminds me of the dried millet seed branches I buy for my birds

Answer 2

It looks like a very healthy stinging nettle, i.e. a noxious weed.

I doubt the city crew purposely planted stinging nettle though.  This weed likes to grow in disturbed soil, so the seeds were probably already there and when the city crew stirred up the soil it allowed the weed seeds to germinate.

The steam you're seeing could either be clouds of pollen, or steam rising as the dew is evaporated by the sun.  ?

Answer 3

I had to laugh at this one.

It looks like a common weed but with LOTS of seeds. Could it be that the seed pods are bursting from the heated moisture in them and that way ejecting the seed?

Just a thought....I want the read a better answer than mine LOL.

Answer 4

It might be Love Lies Bleeding.