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Can anyone identify this little beauty? I've had it for years, and keeps coming back without very much attention. It's just started to flower in the last week or so. It would happily spread all over my border if I allowed it.
Beki

 

It's a viola or common dog violet, very pretty aren't they?

 

Thanks Celia. x

 

It may be pretty but it is slowly wiping out all but the toughest plants on one of my rock gardens.It grows in them and chokes them eventually. It is a worse weed than ground elder in my opinion.

 

Really? Ok Palustris, noted, thanks. Should be ok for now as it's restricted to a through.

 

It seeds like mad, so it is very difficult to contain. You would need to remove all spent flowers to stop it. The seed heads 'explode' sending the seeds a fair distance.

 

could be a potentilla.

 

Shot with Canon PowerShot A540 at 2007-07-25

Very simalar but mine is an anemone.

 

I don't think it's a species of violet, Celia - this is the dog violet:

http://www.plant-identification.co.uk/skye/violaceae/viola-riviniana.htm

Don't know what it is, though!!

 

i'd guess its an anemone too.

does it come true from seed? wonder what species it is...? its very pretty

 

The leaves remind me of peoney leaves.

 

Looks a bit like a Geum to me, I have a red one that grows in between on the patio, looks very much like mine.

 

Inbetween slabs that should have said :D

 

I go with Potentilla although I have the strawberry leaved variety.