Can someone identify this plant/weed please

[Waltons]

I didn't get around to mowing the lawn last week and this is coming up absolutely everywhere.

I'm hoping it's not ground elder ... I've not seen red tinges to elder leaves, though, and the serrations don't like quite so marked.

I don't think it's ground elder, no - I've got that too!

Do you have a sycamore tree?

You've got ground elder? It was the bane of my life.

No sycamore tree, MrsM, although a long time ago we did have something in a border that used to send up plantlets a bit like this. Not sure that it's the same thing this time though because this has only appeared this year out of the blue.

Ground elder is definitely the devil's spawn, gatewalker.

Are these growing in a line? I get something similar which seem to be shoots along an old (fruit?) tree root that just won't die.

Not in a line, no - randomly scattered over quite a wide area (around 15 square metres.)

Checking in so I can look on my laptop. ..

Thanks - I've been Googling everything I can think of for nearly two hours!

There's a v good App called PlantSnapp. You send them a photo and they ID your plant for you.

Red Barrenwort?

Unfortunately I wouldn't know how to use an App even if my life depended on it.

hell, thanks, but no - the leaves aren't heart-shaped like Red Barrenwort - they are more linear and the edges are slightly jagged.

Have you got any pics of the flowers?

There aren't any flowers (yet ...), just lots and lots of little plantlets all over the lawn. None in the borders though, which is odd.

Whatever it is, I have it too. Just been outside with your picture!

Yikes, Quiz! Day of the Triffids, anyone?

Looks a small bit like the baby Hypericum plants I have popping up places but looking on a phone so can't see well.

Not Hypericum either, Sugar. There's one of those nearby, but very different.

Need to pop out for short while but will try to upload some more pics when I get back to see if they help.

What happens if you try to pull it up? Does it come up easily? Do you have anything at all like it growing nearby? I'd just mow over it to be honest, mowing kills off pretty much everything except the usual suspects like daisies and dandelions.

Japanese knotweed?

I think I know what these are, but I can't think of the name! It will come to me!! They form an arching plant about 1.5m high, which flowers in the autumn with hop-like dark pink flowers.... and they selfseed everywhere!

Do you mean Leycesteria shove?

YES!!

Oh my God, thank you so much aircooled, I was going completely mad there! I owe you a glass of

I was frantically googling thinking 'I'm sure it has the word 'Chinese' in the popular name'. Of course, it's Himalayan honeysuckle.

Anyway, I think it might be that. What do you reckon? One landed in my garden a couple of years ago, and every spring I have dozens of the things all over the place!

I've never grown Leycesteria but isn't it also called pheasant berry so I assume the berries can germinate everywhere (maybe after the seeds have passed through a pheasant?). Funny, loads of pheasants in my garden but no Leycesteria.

I was going crazy over the Phuopsis (see damp plant thread). Will sleep better tonight.