Name this weed

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Hopefully pics uploaded. This weed is taking over my garden.. what is it and how do I get rid of it?

Ground elder. Glyphosate on the leaves gets rid of it

How about Bob?

Does it have triangular stems? Then its ground elder. Grelda. Not awful, just very annoying. Can be kept under control with a bit of pulling out roots. Intensive weeding can eradicate it eventually. No need to blitz your garden with herbicides that will work their way into the ground once the plant breaks down and harms wildlife especially bees.

Stella - glyphosate doesn't leach into the soil and the jury is out still on damage to bees. In any event, bees are unlikely to be harmed by its use on this particular plant as its non flowering.

I was also recommending applying it to the leaves in a gel form, not spraying it indiscriminately.

Please don't make me out to be a bee killer.

Thank you.

Bob the ground elder it is.

I'll get weeding tomorrow afternoon. There's so much of it....

Sorry, I meant @orchidinthesun

I e got it. Came with the garden. Weeding often is the answer. Even the tinest of root brings it back. But...its quite satisfying getting it put to make room for a different weed...

You have to dig down and get every tiny bit of root. It always comes back to some extent in my garden, but I am making some progress in my battle. Ground elder does flower, of course (small white blossoms), and I am pretty suspicious about Glyphosate...is there any doubt about its evilness?

It's a systematic weed killer which means it gets drawn to the plant, killing it down to the roots. Often the only way to eradicate pernicious little buggers like ground elder! It doesn't leach into the soil and I only use it very judiciously. So I don't spray, only use gel. If you want to pull it up you just have to keep on top of it. But it is quite satisfying!

The roots of ground elder don’t go too deep but they are like strands of spaghetti in the soil. It is very hard to get every bit of root and the smallest bit left behind will regrow.
If you are going to dig it out then you need to sieve the root for bits of root, lift any plants you want to keep and wash the roots as bits of ground elder will hide there.
I have not so happy memories of spending weeks eradicating it from my garden.
Don’t put it in your compost bin either as it live there quite happily in your compost.

I had masses and masses of ground elder in my garden. It barely makes an appearance now, three years later, as it has been dug up again and again and again. I haven't used weedkiller. If I do ever see it, it will be right now, in May, when it grows like mad. It is possible to get rid of it just by digging, without weedkiller at all, but you do need to stay on top of it.

Also, if you have it in a border, the chances are that it is spreading to you from next door's garden, or from you into theirs. You both need to get rid of it for it to stay away from your garden.

Hmmm. What happens when the glyphosate-dabbed plant dies and decomposes? Does the glyphosate just magically break down into helpful fungi, or does it even more magically evaporate and leave the ecosystem completely? Where does it go?
should we be consulting the monsanto guidelines which were copy-and-pasted into the EU glyphosate report? Maybe that will provide an objective scientific analysis.

It has been said on this forum that www.rhs.org.uk/plants/7891/Geranium-macrorrhizum/Details
will get rid of it .