I found these plants growing under my hedge. I think that they may be plants that my neighbor grows and are invading my yard. Please help me identify.
Thanks for the quick answer. Regarding the second picture, the triangular leaves are about 3 inches wide, so I am not really sure it belongs to the viola species. Can somebody confirm this? Any ideas about the first picture?
To be more clear I was referring to common garden Violets. http://www.gardensnorth.com/catalogue/view.cgi?Image=images/Viola_pubescens.jpg http://www.sarracenia.com/photos/miscplant/violasp___01.jpg
I am glad you posted this, I have that third one and my whole yard consists of this plant towering over all the other weeds....it's terrible....
the third one is glechoma hederacea aka ground ivy aka creeping charlie. it's a problem item that people keep posting about... it's the bane of my back yard!! i just spent four days pulling it up...it spreads like wildfire and even more so when you have a mulching mower. so, last year, when i realized that, i stopped mowing the back part and couldn't get to the yanking bit before fall/winter hit (too humid for me to work outside)...then a cool and wet spring kept me from it. with an early heat wave and then 11 days straight of rain results were this junk growing like it had been given hormones!! what was just a fair amount in the flower beds and a short growth in that one section of the lawn burst out with the beds being almost overtaken and the back of the yard it was a foot high in some places. i LIKE purple...there's a LIMIT though and this stuff, which WILL kill anything in it's path if given an inkling of a chance is way past the limit - even with that pretty purple flower!! so, i spent my holiday weekend out in the yard...had excellent weather and got almost all of it gone - just the one section that has the thistle mixed in didn't get dealt with...i'd just had enough of pulling this stuff out!! i actually resorted to chemicals...yanked it up and sprayed the heek outta whatever stems/roots were left. we'll see how it goes. when i sprayed on the leaves, it did cause wilting (as it did with the thistle and the miscellany of other things) just didn't kill it completely within 24 hours (maybe i expected too much or maybe i didn't saturare enough). anyhoo, i decided to yank it all and then spray - thought getting directly at the roots would be more effective. i'll let you know results...we're to have a few days of rain and then sun again, so i'll know this weekend if the treatment was successful or not. suggestions on how to deal with it...pull it up as soon as you see it!!!!! it's got a fairly shallow root system and is easy to yank when it's just getting established. the longer time it has to grow, the more set in the roots become and then you really need a spade to uproot it properly. pick up all pieces/bits of stem and leaves, too, because they will root. yank the flowers off as soon as you see them, too, to keep them from going to seed. this thing will grow in the dark...so, covering an area has no effect other than to make it travel further to reach sunlight. i've had it grow through cracks in the mortar and it was over a foot tall in the garage - which i don't go into often and it's usually completely dark in there. it's also grown under the length of a bag of mulch i had sitting behind the tree - i pulled at the piece that was just under the one end and had to actually move the whole bag to get this, and the whole 2 1/2 feet of vine, up/out. it literally went under the far end of the bag, grew straight on until it reached sunlight again and then popped up out of the soil...and it was plenty dark - two bags of mulch, unopened, sitting on top of one another. god! can you tell i HATE this stuff?! yank it, while you have the chance!! oh, i used ortho weed be gone max...full strength. this stuff is listed specifically as being something this product will get rid of. it seems to have worked very well on the thistle, it's working on the dandelions i sprayed and it's also worked on the plantain things...jury is out on how it deals with the creeping charlie...the spray did cause it to start to wilt up within 24 hours...and i then did a second application - forgot to check it yesterday to see if that did anything to cause progression of destruction or not...and it was dark when i got home tonight...so, will check in the morning. the other two, i don't know what they are...i have the second one and i don't think it's a violet - leaf shape is not quite right (at least for the type of violets i have here) and i've never seen it flower (but, i yank it when i see it, so it probably just doesn't have time to).
A couple of days ago I applied Roundup to the three plants and only got some dead areas in the second plant leaves, but nothing more! After all I read about Roundup, I thought it would kill the plants but didn't work. I'll have to use other chemicals.
