Alternatives

The plants that look most like thistle fall into two groups. For the garden, globe thistle, sea holly, Miss Willmott’s ghost, cardoon, globe artichoke and basket

The most dangerous plants that look like Queen Anne’s lace are poison hemlock and water hemlock, which can kill if eaten, and giant hogweed, cow parsnip

The plants most often mistaken for clover are wood sorrels (Oxalis) and black medic. Wood sorrels have heart-shaped leaflets that fold down at night and five-petaled

Many plants have finely divided, feathery leaves that look like fern fronds but are not ferns. In the garden, the most common are astilbe, asparagus fern,

The plants that look most like hibiscus are its relatives in the mallow family: rose of Sharon (which is a hibiscus), hollyhock, okra, annual mallow, flowering

The plants that look most like hydrangeas are the viburnums. Chinese snowball, Japanese snowball and the European snowball bush all carry white globes the size and

Most plants that look like onions are other alliums: chives, garlic, leeks, shallots, Egyptian walking onions, ramps and the wild onions and wild garlic that grow

The plants most often mistaken for raspberries are close relatives: blackberries, wineberries, thimbleberries, salmonberries, cloudberries and loganberries are all in the same genus, Rubus, and all

The plants that look most like lamb’s ear are other silver, woolly-leaved plants: common mullein, rose campion, dusty miller, snow-in-summer, angel wings and silver sage. Culinary