The closest guess is that it's some kind of wild violet. The colour's right; the crawling over rocks is right and the leaves are right. I only see four petals on the flowers, though, and that puzzles me.
Hmm. Around this ranch, we carry "Death to invasive plants" placards and follow through. I rather encourage this, because more than half the "weeds" turn out to be forlorn native species, and each patch we encourage means less lawn ;). And you can tell the nosy that you're encouraging native flora and fauna.
Virginia creeper is native, just as pretty, but it will take over the whole neighbourhood if you turn your back.
And here.
This still needs help. Lots and lots of help.
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A weed is a plant out of place. Decide things are where they belong and they become plants.
Whatever happened to ID'ing that strange shrub?
OMG, I forgot that I was supposed to post a pic of that. I trimmed it again, but much less aggressively b/c I remembered your advice.
Do you know what those pretty purple flowered weeds are? I saw them growing out of a sidewalk in Cambridge today too.
The closest guess is that it's some kind of wild violet. The colour's right; the crawling over rocks is right and the leaves are right. I only see four petals on the flowers, though, and that puzzles me.
I googled it and i think you're right:
http://share.triangle.com/node/14445
It's "an invasive plant." Maybe I shoulda pulled 'em all out. :-)
Hmm. Around this ranch, we carry "Death to invasive plants" placards and follow through. I rather encourage this, because more than half the "weeds" turn out to be forlorn native species, and each patch we encourage means less lawn ;). And you can tell the nosy that you're encouraging native flora and fauna.
Virginia creeper is native, just as pretty, but it will take over the whole neighbourhood if you turn your back.
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