"Phil L" wrote in message
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Spreads like the proverbial wildfire although it is quite easily removed.
It's leaves are teardrop shaped and green and stay like this throughout
the year but the most unusual thing about it is that part of it's leaves
are silver, shiny silver, almost metallic...it spreads via 'runners' like
buttercups and strawberries.

Potentilla anserina?
Silverweed?
If it is,
it has pretty yellow flat flowers with 5 petals or so and red runners and
shiny silver leaves but the leaves are pinnate (two rows of leaflets along
central axis, and each is teardrop shaped but has finely divided edges.
It is very common on wasteground and is a native weed.

It covers and area at the side of my garden (wasteland) and the 'patch' is
approx 6m by 20m, and it keeps invading my garden, over, under and through
the fence.
Is this a weed or is it an old plant that someone has discarded many moons
ago?
if anyone has any suggestions I'll google for images but I don't know
where to start.

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