This is how I’m starting to feel about maypops here as well. Here are two of the most vigorous second-leaf seedlings from the seeds @JeremiahT sent me, and they already seem to be stopping for the season:
The larger one was in a pot in the greenhouse for most of the winter, the deformed little one was planted in this spot last year.
Almost all the seedlings show severe leaf deformation. Maybe some kind of mite or insect damage? Nematodes? Virus? Herbicide drift that isn’t affecting any other plants in my yard? Something else?