the evil weed continued

Those of you bored by gardening posts or looking for some anti-marijuana polemic can stop reading now. See you tomorrow.

I continue the good fight against the invader on the homefront. The problem is that, when small and not blooming, the evil one looks like a many other benign plants that are growing happily and innocently in the garden. Bee balm looks almost exactly the same, but there's a quality to the evil one that makes it stand out for me, from even a number of feet away. I can't explain how it's different, but I can sense it. Most of the time.

See?

Bad plant (orange hawkweed): 

Good plant (bee balm):

 

And if I pull up a bunch of balm, oh well. It's kind of invasive as well, but more nicely. OK, back at it. Just me and the mosquitoes.