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please help me with this plant

amlistsamlists Posts: 13
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Hi - can anyone identify this please?  it is spreading all over on the ground in my garden and I have no idea what it is.  Thank you for any help you can give.
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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    It is a very annoying weed. Some type of potentilla. Leave a tiny piece behind and off it goes again.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    Oxalis corniculata. 


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I think it's oxalis. Gets everywhere. You have it forever. But it's quite pretty for all that and easy to how it pull out.😒
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    That’s Oxalis corniculata … the Creeping Woodsorrel … a right PITA 

    https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/160181/oxalis-corniculata-creeping-oxalis-creeping-yellow-oxalis/details

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





  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    I rather like this little sorrel plant .Bit of a nuisance if it’s in the ‘ wrong’ place but .
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    There are some lovely ornamental forms. 

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





  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    It seeds like mad. Never put it in the compost, there are bound to be seeds!
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @nutcutlet I never knew it was an Oxalis thankyou, I wonder just how many I have dug up over the years..... Impossible when the ground is dry.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    GardenerSuze said:
    @nutcutlet I never knew it was an Oxalis thankyou, I wonder just how many I have dug up over the years..... Impossible when the ground is dry.
    I think they're impossible at any time. You can dig them up but they're still there. I don't mind them, I have a big wild garden. If I grew Alpines I think they'd be a pain


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • AnniDAnniD Posts: 12,585
    You have my sympathy. 
    It's dreadful stuff and gets everywhere from flowerbeds to lawns to cracks in the patio. Just when l think l've got it all, up it pops again. 
    https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/oxalis/
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