Plant & Weed ID Megathread

Looks like wild violet I think. One of the weeds that gets a free pass in my garden 😀 It can be very vigorous if it is happy.

Any ideas what this is - growing in my “lawn”?!

That’s it alright!

Can anyone tell me what this is? It's grown up through the middle of another plant at lightning speed over the summer.

Oh dear - I hope I haven't left it too late for that. It's looking pretty formidable.

It appears to be creeping buttercup, though its a bit hard to see. It seems most likely. My 'lawn' is about 70% creeping buttercup, I just keep mowing it, its green, what harm? It does tend to creep into all the non-lawn bits of garden though!

You could try using a selective weedkiller for lawns, but its pretty tough stuff and you probably won't have much grass left when it is gone.

I'm note sure what your game is, or how you get amusement from this, but I had no doubts about anything.

#IGNORE.

Me too and I don't remember doing it! 😃

Sorry.

Yes I considered willow, but willow leaves are generally wilty, I had a branch of that stuff in some flowers over Christmas and it lasted at least a month! It seems to have much more robust leaves than willow, and I know a lot of florists' foliage is basically eucalyptus so that was a first thought. Come to think of it though my branch might well have been Parvifolia, I don't recall the leaves were quite the same as NH's sample, they were more pointy.

Whatever it is it would have to be something that could be pollarded pretty much, in order to be able to harvest the huge quantities they would need.

Olive was my first thought. Branch shape looks right. Leafs maybe a bit to round.

I had always been under the impression that pinnate leaves just referred to the pairs of leaves and that the one at the end was a given, I have just looked up imparipinnate and find my impression was wrong!

Lol, google is a great yoke for upping our skillz 😀