Plant or weed??

[VioletPickles]

Please can you help me identify this, so I know whether to dig it up or not??

Plant, it'll have pink flowers I think.

Weed. Looks like a buttercup to me, it’ll spread by runners if you leave it.

Creeping buttercup an invasive weed.

Its a weed with pretty yellow buttercup flowers. Great in a shrubby unkempt garden. Dig it up if you like neat and tidy gardens as it spreads everywhere.

Couldn't it be a hardy geranium ?

Is it growing in the UK ?

I think buttercup too.

Yes buttercup get it out or you will have hundreds

Definitely buttercup

We've got them in our garden, they are lovely. Hundreds is fine.

Thanks all, yes in the UK. Will probably dig up....

They self seeded (birds?) next to our wildlife pond, so far they haven't spread and we've been here for 10 years and have had them for the last 3. I disagree that they are only fine for 'scruffy' gardens.

It is buttercup and you need to get rid of it before it self seeds or roots from remaining stems. It thrives in damp and poorly drained areas - is there any scope for you to improve the soil?

They’re good for wild areas but rubbish in a bed! Will quickly take over and swamp your plants if you let them. I’m happy to leave a few in more remote areas of the garden but not in the borders.

The soil is terrible (new build) its like rubble on clay. Very wet and heavy. That bit does get the sun though. Difficult to know what to grow!

Another vote for buttercup - dig it up before it spreads!

@dayinlifeof
I think you might be thinking of potentilla?
www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/78926/Potentilla-nepalensis-Miss-Willmott/Details