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Dopey question for the day...
geum keenbutgreen
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Hi there, sorry, me again!
I have a metric tonne of this stuff in one of my borders. As a complete novice, I wanted to check if it's actually supposed to be there, or if it's a mysterious (to me) weed? The garden I've bought is rather overgrown and very weedy, and as my knowledge of weeds runs to about three things, I'd love someone know knows what they're doing to have a quick look!
Thanks so much 
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Sorry, I can't help with ID but personally I wouldn't want too many of them whatever they are. Anything that prolific is bound to end up being a nuisance. Just my opinion
Well, that's what I was wondering - if it's growing that well, it's probably not meant to be there
looks like it might be celandine.but I'm not sure from the photo.
It does look a bit like celandine, but the leaves on mine are slightly shiny and have the odd pale grey-white blotch. It also looks a bit violety, and the way it has run up into the wall is more like them than celandine, which grow from tiny whitish bulbils. It might be something else entirely!
Why not leave some in a not too visible place and get rid of the rest? ID will be much easier when they flower and if they are something you would like to keep, they shouldn't be hard to propagate! Celandine do spread and some people find them a nuisance. It depends on your style of gardening. I grow the double flowered one and the one with bronze leaves (Brazen Hussy, great name!)in a damp corner of a border, but the wild ones pop up in the grass and make great swathes in my wild, boggy, inaccessible area. I love their bright varnished petals in the spring sunshine and they soon disappear afterwards, but then I'm not trying for a perfect bowling green lawn and immaculate borders
I was thinking celandine as well (but didn't know the name). I had it in a previous garden a pain to get rid of. To start with I thought the tubers where eggs.
Here are a couple of websites with info
https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=187
I would dig up a little patch and see if you see the tubers like this
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=lesser+celandine&biw=1346&bih=972&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-l7OX7ZfKAhUJkh4KHeKrA-UQiR4Iew#imgrc=ebb9clXZihdaCM%3A
Good luck.
Leaves wrong for Celandine and even with the mild weather ours is only just beginning to show leaves.
viola of some sort??
I think it's Butterbur . - Petasites.
violets
In the sticks near Peterborough