Seedlings popped up in a pile of ashes - milkweed?

Blueberry Acres

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These sprouted in a pile of fireplace ashes in my raspberry patch, close to a swamp milkweed bush. I’ve never seen milkweed seedlings in person, but these sort of look like the photos online. What do y’all think?
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Carol Dee

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Do you have maple trees nearby? I was just out pulling maple seedlings that look like that before they set the 1st true maple leaf.
 

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Being a big vegetation burner I can tell you that those are NOT maples. If I left my property for 5 years it would be a maple forest and I consider their sprouts to be one more WEED.
If seeds sprouted in your ashes they probably blew in or were deposited by some bird.
 

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