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Tue, Sep 20, 05 at 14:14
| Does anybody recognize this? It's growing in a sun-dappled forested place beside a new garden patch and I'm wondering whether we should let it stay or take it out. It carpets the ground, sending up 4-5" flower stalks with little pale purple flowers. The stems aren't square. They root where they touch the ground (stolons?) The leaves are opposite...
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| I'm only guessing it is species of Veronica that I have also. It makes a nice groundcover but the flowers are not especially attractive. There are huge and increasing patches of it here, but I have left it, since it doesn't get very tall and interferes with none of my desired plants. |
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| Bogturtle that's what it reminds of too - veronica - but the flower shape is different and that is pretty important in ID I thought. Need to do a closer comparison. I've been searching without success on woodland + groundcover websites. It's a nice plant really but maybe invasive... |
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| I never really bothered to get a sample from outside to compare to your photo and cannot swear that it is a Veronica even if I did the comparison. Will do further exploration by contacting New Jersey wildflower site and refer them to your photo. The plant I have is highly invasive, but so short and by the edge of the woods, I don't really care. It is nowhere among my choice plants. |
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| Here are more pictures... http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/woodland/msg0920500310045.html ?2 |
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