What is this weed?

[Leafster]

i know, that's the weird thing, but the foliage looks so right iyswim.

Yep! You might be right though about it being some other kind of viola, just not one I'm familar with. We'll just have to wait for the flowers!

 

[cesare]

leaves are all wrong for coltsfoot cesare

OK! Corsican mint???

*gives up*

 

[WouldBe]

ooh, brain's working again!

dog violet or similar? some sort of viola?

They are in flower at the moment. Leaves look too big for that and mine are growing in clumps rather than ground cover.

 

[trashpony]

I'm ashamed to say I don't know but it's spread like buggery all over the garden

Any tips on getting rid other than the usual dig up/glyphosate/broad leaf zapper?

Ta

ooh, brain's working again!

dog violet or similar? some sort of viola?

Not the same leaves but that's closest. And it is really carpeting. I swear there's patches of the stuff that are 3-4 ft across (at the end of the garden), not clumps

The nodes by the leaves are a bit odd - I might post a piccy of them when I get home

 

[Herbert Read]

I agree with _ph_, it's a variation / hybrid of what I call dog weed. Probably some strange London version of it

 

[gentlegreen]

dog weed :-

http://images.google.co.uk/images?h...+weed+Dyssodia+pentachaeta&btnG=Search+images



Doncha just love "common names of plants ?

 

[trashpony]

Dog violet hmm it's possible. We will have to see if it flowers. It's still a bloody weed though and is going to get nuked (I am largely an organic gardener I hasten to add )

 

[pengaleng]

that aint weed.

 

[harpo]

Hard to tell how big the leaves are, but it looks like what my grandad used to call chickweed.

 

[trashpony]

that aint weed.

Shh I'm going to sell it to that bloke that's looking for a dealer

 

[gentlegreen]

Hard to tell how big the leaves are, but it looks like what my grandad used to call chickweed.

He might have called it chickweed, but it isn't

 

[Leafster]

Not the same leaves but that's closest. And it is really carpeting. I swear there's patches of the stuff that are 3-4 ft across (at the end of the garden), not clumps

The nodes by the leaves are a bit odd - I might post a piccy of them when I get home

Are the "nodes" a bit like this?

If they are it may be celandine afterall. Some plants have these nodes called "bulbils" which help it propagate itself.

(I'm waiting for my PC to finish something so I looked it up!)

 

[harpo]

He might have called it chickweed, but it isn't

Ah, right.

Well, too late to tell him now.

 

[gentlegreen]

Ah, right.

Well, too late to tell him now.

 

[harpo]

He died in 1977. Twas a long time ago now.

 

[WouldBe]

Dog violet hmm it's possible. We will have to see if it flowers. It's still a bloody weed though and is going to get nuked (I am largely an organic gardener I hasten to add )

Dog violets are the only weed that get to live in my garden.

 

[trashpony]

Are the "nodes" a bit like this?

If they are it may be celandine afterall. Some plants have these nodes called "bulbils" which help it propagate itself.

(I'm waiting for my PC to finish something so I looked it up!)

Yes they are! But the leaves don't look right I don't think. Hmm ...