How can you tell what is growing in your yard?

Question

Behind my grandma's house there has always been this gooey, dark green colored stuff that grows from the ground. It's so dark that it look black. It grows in tiny round circles that seem to stick together. If you step on them after it rains you are sure to slip and fall. It doesn't have a smell that I know of. But we would like to know what it is. And is there a place where we could send a sample to or that will come out and scoop some of it up?

Oh by the way it's not waste from the bathroom or sink. We have already checked the pipes to the sewer line and they are working fine.

Answer 1

Its like a fungus plant that grows green but is dark because it has been left there for a while I'm not sure what it's called but I've seen the stuff before I'm currently studying horticulture what you could do is google pics of plants and find the one your talking about because I've only just started the course. The black on it could have been form from dirt in the ground anyway best of luck.

Answer 2

Contact the Ag Extension office.  If you're in a rural area, check your phone book.   In a more urbanized area, it may be an outreach department in your state university.

Answer 3

I'm not sure.  It its some sort of vine with gooey stuff on it then take a photo and bring it to a garden center;  someone there can tell you.  Maybe post a photo and then add a link to this question?

The only other suggestion I have is get someone from a town department to come out and look at it.

Answer 4

They sound like a fungi.

My question to you is why are you just randomly spraying toxic herbicides on plants you haven't even properly identified.  This is the problem with America everyone is given a free license to kill, and all it takes is a credit card and a hardware store.

Answer 5

Why do you care what it's called? Either you like it or you hate it. If you hate it, cut it down, or put weed killer on it,or plow it up.

Answer 6

poke it with a stick

if it growls call the papers :)

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Answer 7

Have you tried smoking any? J/K Maybe it's moss or fungus.

Answer 8

I suspect it`s a mushroom growth that originates from dog vomit. You can scoop it up all you want, it will keep growing as long as there is a trace of spores still left over. Use bleach or a fungicide to get rid of it. Good luck!

Answer 9

Find a book of indigenous plants and start looking; your library should be able to help you out with that.

Answer 10

Looking at it might help.