Is this a plant or a weed?

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  November 2020

  Creeping Buttercup ... pretty but a PITA ... spreads rapidly ... regarded as a weed in most gardens. 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• Asarum Posts: 661

  November 2020

  It's a creeping buttercup.  The shoot in the top right of the photo will soon root into the ground and produce another plant! They can be a pest in the garden.
  

  East Anglia

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• Wilderbeast Posts: 1,415

  November 2020

  Indeed creeping buttercup, it's an amazingly loyal plant, despite all our crazed efforts it comes back 😠😠 Dig it up asap making sure to remove all the roots, then offer a small sacrifice to your favoured god and keep your fingers crossed. I jest clearly but I have major problems with this as it was totally endemic in the old meadow that became our garden and it creeps in from the grass constantly

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• Robmarston Posts: 338

  November 2020

  I have it everywhere. Loathe it. I’m constantly trying to get rid of it. And it isn’t pretty. 

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• Fairygirl Posts: 55,117

  November 2020

  Same here @Robmarston. I yank bits out of the grass when I spot it, which is where it's a real pest. 

  It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
  
  
  
  I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  November 2020

  Robmarston said:

  ......   And it isn’t pretty. 

  I have evidence to the contrary  https://www.pinterest.co.uk/buttercupmeadow/fields-of-buttercups/
  
  😉 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• strelitzia32 Posts: 758

  November 2020

  On the bright side, you get to play a new game I like to call "did you get distracted while weeding and pull out some geranium rozanne as well?" 

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