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Can you identify this?

jane-hillbeckjane-hillbeck Posts: 2
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Hi

Im hoping one of you very knowledgable folk can help me identify this tiny wild flower. It grows in the grass of our local park, it's very tiny and low growing. At first I thought it was a type of viola but the leaves say more like a primula. Any ideas? image

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    One of the speedwells,



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,088

    Speedwell - veronica chamaedrys.

    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • jane-hillbeckjane-hillbeck Posts: 2

    Thank you all very much! It is very pretty indeed.

  • pottering girlpottering girl Posts: 236

    Speedwell, the absolute pain in my lawn.   It spreads everywhere and I don't think a nuclear bomb would halt it.  Tried lots of things, lawn specialists couldn't eradicate it, even painstakingly tried to pull all the long strands out.  Don't want to use anything really harmful because my lawn has lots of birds feeding on it.  "How pretty" I thought when I first saw it.  Wish I had removed it at first sight.  

  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Muddle-Up says:

    I also have it in my 'lawn' but I love it!  To each his/her own, I guess!  My garden is of the cottage/wildlife variety, though ( for which read 'scruffy and unkempt! ) so it doesn't matter! image

    See original post

     Sounds like my garden, I have huge areas of stinging nettles and brambles I'm never going to get round to taming, I call them my wildlife areas.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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