Daryl Austin, The Milk thistle painting, 2006/7, oil on linen, 81 x 101 cm.

If noticed, any weed is only recognised by what it is not and the cultivator's belief that it should not be there at all.
Which,are for me the much needed attributes required of paintings at present. Neither what people immediately recognise nor what they particularly want.
It's about operating counter to the prevailing cultivator and persisting.

The Great Piece of Turf ( Das große Rasenstück) 1503 is a watercolor painting by Albrecht Dürer. The various plants can be identified as cocksfoot, creeping bent, smooth meadow-grass, daisy, dandelion, germander, speedwell, greater plantain, houndstongue and yarrow. (Source: Wikipedia)

Durer, Buttercups, red clover and plantain.

Christmas stocking
Tree of life
Weeding out

Helen Fuller, Goodwood, December 2010.

The plant that you did not plant that is doing better that the one you did is a weed. This means that it is possible that one man's weed is the next girl's desirable plant.
And this opens the field to relativism, not to mention infestation.
My neighbour Len insists on planting Statice where I am trying to grow Kangaroo Paw, his is doing better than mine, but is his a weed?

Many years ago when I went to The Flinders Ranges for the first time the hillsides were covered in purple and scarlet, beautiful, I thought.

Michal Kluvanek

Incontestably, The Onion Weed is a weed, it is a foul, insidious and invasive weed and a contestant for space in my garden where it more than holds its own.

Michal Kluvanek, November 2010

There is a weed in a vase in my front room.

It was collected from Mantung, (near Loxton, South Australia) in July 2010.

My friend Christine said it was Roly Poly Bush.

Roly Poly Bush, Prickly Saltwort, Salsola kali, the plant according to Wikipedia is most commonly known as Tumbleweed.

I collected the dried bush for its rounded, plantine shape. I found its branched, prickly stems attractive and placed it in a vase.

For the Wild Weeds project, I photographed the weed in a vase under the dappled light of vines growing at the side of my house.

Margaret Sanders