Can you help me identify this plant?

Jeanne Spears
Jeanne Spears Posts: 27 ✭✭✭
edited November 2020 in Plant ID

This plant came up in my flower bed, and since I consider (most) volunteer plants as gifts, I let it grow. It is now about 3' tall and 3' wide. By the shape of the leaves I thought at first it was a redbud tree, since I have several in the yard, but the branches are red, soft and mostly hollow not woody. I tried to look it up in my reference books and the closest description I found was for belladonna, but could find no reference as to why lower leaves are a different shape, like fig leaves (picture 2)

I take in a lot of "orphan" plants, so get a lot of stray volunteers and seeds in the pots. I'm sure with the vast knowledge on Grow, someone can help me decide what this is, and whether I need to keep it or dispose of it.


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