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ground covering invasive weed ID
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. 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. -- If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs. |
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ground covering invasive weed ID
"Phil L" wrote in message k... 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. -- If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs. |
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ground covering invasive weed ID
Des Higgins wrote:
"Phil L" wrote in message k... 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. No it's nothing like that, the leaves are almost round, with just a point at their ends, each leaf is about the size of an old penny, the green is a darkish green....I don't recall ever seeing it flower, although it must do I suppose. Thanks though for looking. |
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ground covering invasive weed ID
Lamium Maculatum?
http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...maculatum.html 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. 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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ground covering invasive weed ID
On 1/3/06 13:50, in article ,
"Phil L" wrote: 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. 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. Lamium Pink Pewter, perhaps? -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon ) |
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ground covering invasive weed ID
"John McMillan" wrote Lamium Maculatum? http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...maculatum.html Or possibly Lamiastrum galeobdolon (Yellow Archangel), which puts out long runners and is extremely invasive. I heard someone refer to it once as Lamium Galloping-along which suits it very well. The variegated version does have a very metallic looking leaf. http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...leobdolon.html -- Sue |
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ground covering invasive weed ID
Sue wrote:
"John McMillan" wrote Lamium Maculatum? http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...maculatum.html Or possibly Lamiastrum galeobdolon (Yellow Archangel), which puts out long runners and is extremely invasive. I heard someone refer to it once as Lamium Galloping-along which suits it very well. The variegated version does have a very metallic looking leaf. http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...leobdolon.html Yep, that's the chappy! Is it native or has it come from someone's garden? I ask because the ground where it is seems to be very fertile, I have occasionally (before we got our compost bins) thrown the odd plant over the fence which I didn't want on the compost heap and they have grown, namely three Yuccas, one from just a thick root which I dug out, the others from shoots which refuse to disintegrate in the normal way. The other surprise is an old wiry hebe bush which has survived on top of a rotten log for at leat 12 years. the ground is just brambles, nettles and hawthorns and I like it that way. |
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ground covering invasive weed ID
On 1/3/06 17:48, in article ,
"Phil L" wrote: Sue wrote: "John McMillan" wrote Lamium Maculatum? http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...maculatum.html Or possibly Lamiastrum galeobdolon (Yellow Archangel), which puts out long runners and is extremely invasive. I heard someone refer to it once as Lamium Galloping-along which suits it very well. The variegated version does have a very metallic looking leaf. http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...leobdolon.html Yep, that's the chappy! Is it native or has it come from someone's garden? I think it's a garden escapee. -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.co.uk South Devon ) |
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I've just spent the best part of three afternoons pulling this bugger up from all over the place, especially under the rosa rugosa hedge (OUCH!).
Beats my why anyone would plant this originally, it looks awful IMO, like creeping, discoloured nettles. Archangel? Nemesis more like! Bob |
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ground covering invasive weed ID
Phil L writes
Sue wrote: "John McMillan" wrote Lamium Maculatum? http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...maculatum.html Or possibly Lamiastrum galeobdolon (Yellow Archangel), which puts out long runners and is extremely invasive. I heard someone refer to it once as Lamium Galloping-along which suits it very well. The variegated version does have a very metallic looking leaf. http://www.desert-tropicals.com/Plan...leobdolon.html Yep, that's the chappy! Is it native or has it come from someone's garden? No, it's not native, although the unvariegated L galeobdolon is. The variegated one is an increasing escape from gardens, and is becoming a matter for concern. -- Kay |
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