In meinem Topf und am Rand des Rasens wachsen ein paar Wochenkrautarten, aber ich habe keine Ahnung, um welche es sich handelt. Irgendwelche Vorschläge? Danke.
Second pic appears to have chickweed (white flowers) and possibly scarlet pimpernel (red flowers) – both have quite similar leaves
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You’ve got two weeds there that overwinter in the green and are appreciated by wildlife, more for the leaves than flowers.
The first is a bitter cress, I’ve got a lovely green patch of it this year that I’m tempted to leave overwinter. I’m sure my garden already contains one billion of its seeds and it’s easy to remove.
The second is chickweed, beloved of birds. Technically it might compete with your lawn but it can help it look green while the grass is dormant, as does moss. Once you cut in Spring, and especially if you rake, it will disappear.
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Hairy bittercress and chickweed
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I’m going to be that annoying guy…
Personally i dont think its chickweed although that growth habit is very similar I expect pointier leaves.
It may well be chickweed though, because it’s hard to be sure which chickweed people mean…
Common names are a blight for this. I would wager there are many more plants than this that get called chickweed regionally.
, an old school gardener I used to work with told me that bittercress and chickweed were different names for the same plant, which is not right, obviously. But he wasn’t wrong. It’s just the common name system is pretty crap.
Photo 1 has 2 plants. the one with white flowers and long seed pods that explode when ripe, or when flicked (new Zealanders call it flickweed for this reason) is bittercress for sure.
a common weed in industrial horticulture. If you have a weed in a potted plant you got from the garden centre, it’s probably one of these.
The other plant? It looks like maybe a celandine to me. But I wouldn’t stake my life on it. I think I know it by eye, and if I do it will have a little yellow flower on it.
The thing is, when it comes to common weeds like this, Latin names just don’t matter as much to most gardeners. Call it something funny (sticky willy, hairy Mary, etc) so you can communicate it easily to others, and just pull it out.
Unless you are foraging them, of course. Then it really matters…
So, my question to OP. Is it just curiosity (a perfectly valid reason) or do you have another reason to know exactly what it is?
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Common bittercress
Second pic appears to have chickweed (white flowers) and possibly scarlet pimpernel (red flowers) – both have quite similar leaves
You’ve got two weeds there that overwinter in the green and are appreciated by wildlife, more for the leaves than flowers.
The first is a bitter cress, I’ve got a lovely green patch of it this year that I’m tempted to leave overwinter. I’m sure my garden already contains one billion of its seeds and it’s easy to remove.
The second is chickweed, beloved of birds. Technically it might compete with your lawn but it can help it look green while the grass is dormant, as does moss. Once you cut in Spring, and especially if you rake, it will disappear.
Hairy bittercress and chickweed
I’m going to be that annoying guy…
Personally i dont think its chickweed although that growth habit is very similar I expect pointier leaves.
It may well be chickweed though, because it’s hard to be sure which chickweed people mean…
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_plants_known_as_chickweed
Common names are a blight for this. I would wager there are many more plants than this that get called chickweed regionally.
, an old school gardener I used to work with told me that bittercress and chickweed were different names for the same plant, which is not right, obviously. But he wasn’t wrong. It’s just the common name system is pretty crap.
Photo 1 has 2 plants. the one with white flowers and long seed pods that explode when ripe, or when flicked (new Zealanders call it flickweed for this reason) is bittercress for sure.
a common weed in industrial horticulture. If you have a weed in a potted plant you got from the garden centre, it’s probably one of these.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardamine_hirsuta
The other plant? It looks like maybe a celandine to me. But I wouldn’t stake my life on it. I think I know it by eye, and if I do it will have a little yellow flower on it.
The thing is, when it comes to common weeds like this, Latin names just don’t matter as much to most gardeners. Call it something funny (sticky willy, hairy Mary, etc) so you can communicate it easily to others, and just pull it out.
Unless you are foraging them, of course. Then it really matters…
So, my question to OP. Is it just curiosity (a perfectly valid reason) or do you have another reason to know exactly what it is?