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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: mark smyth on June 05, 2015, 03:35:05 PM

Title: weed invasion
Post by: mark smyth on June 05, 2015, 03:35:05 PM

100s if not 1000s of this weed are taking over the gravel and beds in the front garden. What is it? Minute blue flowers

Title: Re: weed invasion
Post by: Maggi Young on June 05, 2015, 04:04:40 PM

A Speedwell of some sort? Veronica arvensis ?

Title: Re: weed invasion
Post by: mark smyth on June 05, 2015, 05:25:51 PM

Googling it I'd say you are correct. Its an annual so if I can get rid of it now ...

Title: Re: weed invasion
Post by: art600 on June 06, 2015, 11:16:19 AM

You have a much nicer type of weed than me.

My worst is a plant that resembles a small ground elder but has a tap root.  Terrible thing - no flowers!

Title: Re: weed invasion
Post by: Jupiter on June 07, 2015, 08:27:21 AM

Veronica arvensis is very bad here this year.  I've been weeding all day today and in some places the seedlings are coming up so thick it's a continuous carpet on the soil. Take care to eradicate it Mark. It can become quite a pest.

Title: Re: weed invasion
Post by: Anthony Darby on June 07, 2015, 12:30:30 PM

Leaves are not quite right.

Title: Re: weed invasion
Post by: Maggi Young on June 07, 2015, 12:56:57 PM

Lower foliage of Veronica arvensis is different from the upper leaves,
Anthony.

Title: Re: weed invasion
Post by: mark smyth on June 07, 2015, 04:09:52 PM

I'll take a photo now

Title: Re: weed invasion
Post by: JohnnyD on June 08, 2015, 12:09:46 PM

Not only is a pest Mark, it has the capacity to flower and seed when VERY tiny - in the shade of other plants and almost impossible to find. Until, that is, when you want to take its' photo!!!!!!!!!!!
JohnnyD