leaf identification
We are having troubles identifying a plant in our flower beds. It is widespread this year but we do not recognize it as a flower that we have planted in the past.
It could be a weed from many sources, including birdseed from some feeders nearby, or transplanted buy many chipmunks and squirrels in the area.
The leaf looks like this, a five lobed long fingered leaf:
The plant is 2 to 3 feet tall and is in bunches.
Here is an area image of the plant:
and the last image is father back still:
The closest I could come in a google image search is
ambrosia trifida aka giant ragweed
http://extension.umass.edu/landscape/weeds/ambrosia-trifida
or leonurus cardiaca aka motherwort
http://extension.umass.edu/landscape/weeds/leonurus-cardiaca
Updated: we’ve settled on a tentative identification of motherwort, part of the mint family.