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This is a long shot.. (I.D.)

Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
edited June 2022 in Plants
Right then, I've just thrown it all in the bin, and forgot to take a photo, but if anyone can help I.D. this weed from a description, I'd be very grateful!

It's tiny, with single simple leaves quite widely spaced, long, slim, dull green, has long horizontal shoots and very deep roots with 2 or 3 stems off. The root on an inch of plant can be about 8 inches long. It's very strong for its size, and I *don't think* it flowers. 

Any ideas, even vague ones? I can't find anything online.

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2022
    All plants flower … (well, ferns mosses and lichens don’t, but they’re different 😉)

    A bit hard without a pic, but your description makes me think of Knotgrass https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/wildflowers/common-knotgrass

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





  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Amazing! I think you're right, thank you!
    I've never seen the flowers, I expect that's because I've pulled it when it was out of season, and/or very small. It's a PITA though. 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    One of those weeds I used to hoe out in sugar beet fields as a child. I know it well. I’m quite fond of it actually, in a strange masochistic sort of way 😂 

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





  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Dovefromabove said:
    One of those weeds I used to hoe out in sugar beet fields as a child. I know it well. I’m quite fond of it actually, in a strange masochistic sort of way 😂 
    🤣🤣🤣 Like an old, familiar enemy.. I know what you mean!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    The Farmer's Weekly used to have little black and white drawings of common agricultural weeds … I loved them and I’ve a feeling they influenced my early drawing style 😆 

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





  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    I've still got wildflower books with illustrations. 😊
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Try ground ivy I’ve been digging it out all day.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    Lyn said:
    Try ground ivy I’ve been digging it out all day.
    Been there.. I feel your pain.

    I've got bits of bramble appearing still, the roots are in NZ.. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I had a bramble session yesterday,  attacked one of my ‘wildlife corners’. As I like to call the neglected areas.
    was your mystery weed not Ground Ivy then?   The roots hang in like the proverbial STAB.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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