Christmas has come and gone. I hope it was a good one for everyone. Please accept my late tidings and well wishes for the coming year! 
My mantra these days is DO WHAT YOU CAN! It may not be when or how I expected it but if I do what I can, it’s another step forward.
Piece by piece, I’ve been doing what I can as I am able to and in the “Nick” of time, I made a Christmas gift from an piece of eco printed wool gauze that was among the last batch I did this year. I used various leaves, dipped or soaked in various solutions (iron, calcium carbonate, copper) and steamed about 2.5 hours.
Whatever this is it became my favorite weed to print but I have no idea what it is. Please LMK if you recognize it.
Turtlemoon Impressions 
It’s difficult to eco print and paint walls at the same time … I know! About the weed, a guess. If you’re still in San Francisco, perhaps the ‘weed’ is in fact, casuarina? Apparently, it prints well. We don’t have it in the UK. Kathy Hays uses it. I think she’s in Miami. https://kathyhaysdesigns.com/index.html
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Yes, I’m getting my house and studios in order before I can really get back to my art. It’s happening slowly but surely.
I’m in North Reading, MA – East Coast. When I last went back out in search of this weed, I couldn’t find it and if I know what it is I may have a better chance at finding it in the Spring.
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I don’t suppose it’s Casuarina, then! If you get a chance, post a photo, eh? ‘Bon courage’ with ‘cleaning up your room’. Me (soul me) needs a very vigorous scrubdown, and that’s a fact.
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Not chuffa , probably annual crab grass … assume it is a grass?
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I think not a grass. It’s small but is possibly a tree or shrub growth, about a foot to two feet high and was found in October so whatever flowering may have occurred it was gone by then. Often I go from one site to another when collecting so I don’t know for sure where I found it. I looked again a few weeks later for more at various sites and could never find it again. As a printer, I was dismayed but as a believer in preserving native plants, I’m glad that if it’s an invasive, and it probably is, it’s a good thing. But I still want to know what it is and find it again if I can. It looks very similar to a Tamarisk which is a very disturbing invasive but not usually present here.
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wondering if it might be new jersey tea then? they have a flowering stem that lasts a long time after the flowers are gone.
some native flowering shrubs at site below.
https://www.ecolandscaping.org/05/native-plants/high-impact-native-american-shrubs/
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Last year I planted some New Jersey Tea shrubs but they didn’t make it through the winter. This year, I’m hoping that the two I planted this year will survive, but what I collected is definitely not New Jersey Tea. It’m wondering if it’s a rare invasive here. It looks a lot like Casuarina: https://www.allposters.com/-sp/Filao-Tree-Casuarina-Equisetifolia-Plant-with-Flower-Leaf-and-Fruit-Illustration-Posters_i7148102_.htm
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At a loss… thought alder too… leaf shape? looks pretty what ever it is.
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Sure wish I’d taken a pic! Can’t say for sure. It was already on its way out late October. An even better possibility could be Tamarix aphylla, aka Bugwood Thanks for your efforts. Hope I find it again in Spring or Summer, whatever it is! https://www.pinterest.com/pin/423831014929777372/
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Still not something that should be found on the east coast. Hope you find it again and post pictures. Still hoping it is not invasive. Although I do love my polygonum cuspidatum! Neighbor hates it , but i try to keep it under control. Tasty shoots in the spring. Fence in the summer. flowers in the fall.
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Yes, Japanese Knotweed is such a mixed blessing!
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