Is it Lesser Celandine? I find the wanting a ground cover plant situation interesting and sometimes amusing. We decide we want ground cover, so we plant something and then when it's done it's job we don't like it and then rage war on the plant to get rid of it!
I have lesser celandine and creeping jenny and i love them both, they do exactly what i planted them for. Everything else doesn't suffer and grows up through them without issues. They trap moisture in the soil so watering isn't needed so much.
I love the fact that what was a very boring lawn in my garden has been partly taken over by lesser celandine, creeping jenny, white clover and Hippocrepis comosa (Horseshoe vetch) and others. So much more interesting and rewarding given the increased wildlife they attract to the garden.
Mixing creeping jenny with mind your own business and bugle works very well indeed too.
If you leave lesser celandine alone, it appears in spring, flowers and does it's thing and then dies back quickly and disappears until next spring. Disturb it and it spreads and comes up all over the place. Leave it alone and this doesn't happen so readily.
This my experience.
I've learned my lesson and decided I only want ground cover that is going to spread in a controlled way a few inches a year and anything that suddenly pops up yards away or in a different bed is on my 'not to have' list! I have things like sedum, veronica and herbs that creep slowly but surely but don't pop up in different bed.
I think #Borderline is correct and mine is some sort of violet. I have admired celandines a lot recently when on walks in the spring but am now thinking maybe I won't get those either! Plants need to come with warnings as to how they cover and how good they are at jumping to completely different places and putting out feet long horizontal roots!
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I think #Borderline is correct and mine is some sort of violet. I have admired celandines a lot recently when on walks in the spring but am now thinking maybe I won't get those either! Plants need to come with warnings as to how they cover and how good they are at jumping to completely different places and putting out feet long horizontal roots!