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B3B3 Posts: 27,505
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This chap looks vaguely  familiar  
Growing in what is usually  dry shade - but it's  not dry at the moment!
Might it be a mallow?
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • SherwoodArrowSherwoodArrow Posts: 284
    I get a similar ‘weed’ I always thought it was a cranesbill - geranium family?
    I’m probably wrong though. 
    Nottinghamshire.
    Failure is always an option.

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It has a look of a geranium too. @SherwoodArrow
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • UffUff Posts: 3,199
    Three different ones there B3 which one do you mean?
    SW SCOTLAND but born in Derbyshire
  • SherwoodArrowSherwoodArrow Posts: 284
    edited November 2022
    Found these 


    There are loads of different cranesbills so it could be any, but yours definitely looks like part of the geranium family 🙂. 
    Nottinghamshire.
    Failure is always an option.

  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    edited November 2022
    Possibly doves foot cranesbill, geranium molle? The leaves seem quite variable but it may be that one?

    Or maybe a seedling from a garden variety?

  • WoodgreenWoodgreen Posts: 1,273
    Any scent from the leaf?
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    and one of the Dead-nettles I think
    and a Corydalis at the front


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • WAMSWAMS Posts: 1,960
    Beautiful book, @SherwoodArrow.
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited November 2022
    B3 said:

    This chap looks vaguely  familiar  
    Growing in what is usually  dry shade - but it's  not dry at the moment!
    Might it be a mallow?
    It might be a mallow.  

    The bottom one is Herb Robert, easly remove ant time before seeding. .  And the top right one is a Dead Nettle, carefull to remove all the root.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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