(jane) wrote in
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~The other one I find a real pain I can't even remember the latin name
of - ~like a sort of weedy geum with tiny yellow flowers and knobbly
reddish ~roots that work into every crevice.
~
~I call it 'that thing'. It knows what I mean.

My favourite hate I called strawberry stuff (or worse) till one day
my memory woke up and told me it was creeping cinquefoil (potentilla
reptans). That too has yellow flowers and runs everywhere... and the
roots regenerate too. Sounds like it could be your geum-like plant.

Nope, creeping cinquefoil is a pretty little thing with real flowers and
delicate leaves. I rather like it (but then, I'm not overrun with it: I
think it likes more sun than we get here)

'That thing' has blobby hairy leaves, long wiry stems, and manky little
flowers with tiny petals.

(pauses to rummage on Google for something similar)

It is a geum! Geum urbanum or Herb bennet, apparently. Here it is trying
to look inoffensive and wildflowerlike:

http://www.ibiblio.org/herbmed/pictu...um-urbanum.htm

Hah, it doesn't look like that when it's wedged its roots into a 1cm square
gap in the paving and they...won't...come...OUT!

Victoria
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gardening on a north-facing hill
in South-East Cornwall
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