What on earth is this?

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It's appeared everywhere in my border this year. The stems snap easily if you try to pull them up and the leaves grow curled up before they unfurl.

Cookoo pint

It's slightly hard to tell from that photo but the arrow-shaped leaf looks like Lords and Ladies, which is springing up in the verges around here at this time of year.

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Cuckoo pint and Lords and Ladies are the same thing.

That looks like it! Thank you. Looks like it will be difficult to get rid of as well

I didn't know what the plant is OP but you have a very beautiful hand

@0blio that did make me giggle!

Do you need to get rid of it? It's lovely in autumn, spikes of glowing red berries which seem to light up the shade. You need to make sure children don't eat it, all parts are poisonous, though not palatable.

@MereDintofPandiculation I don't mind it per se but it's everywhere. Almost as annoying as the monbretia that's competing for annoying plant of the year award.

Yes, that's another one which is lovely in late summer, but too much of a good thing. Alchemilla mollis is another pest.