On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 21:57:45 GMT, "Cereoid-UR12-"
wrote:

You may or may not want to feel guilty for calling this uncommon but
widespread native plant a weed. If it was a bit more showier, it would be
grown as a garden plant.

It is Diodia virginiana L., commonly called "Buttonweed".

http://www.missouriplants.com/Whiteo...iana_page.html

http://www.ct-botanical-society.org/...iodiavirg.html

http://fp.bio.utk.edu/botany/Botany_...t.su00/New%20w
ebpage/Rubiaceae/Buttonweed.jpg


The paired leaves and four petaled white flowers are characteristic.

Since it is a plant that favors wet soil, your lawn is probably getting a
bit too much water.

That's it! Buttonweed. And it's sure vriginiana. "Too much" water may
not be a requisite. It's certainly been a lot more vigorous in this
rainy spring/summer, but appears and thrives even in dry years.