Plant id please

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Any clue? Several have appeared in my garden and I can’t work out if they need digging up quick before they spread or if I can leave them and see how they look.
Thanks.

I think it's a weed, I have something like that in my garden. It will spread over the years if you leave it, but it's not massively invasive.

Looks like wood Avens, a type of wild Geum that has small yellow flowers. A bit of a nuisance, I dig them up. The upside is that Geums would probably do well in your soil.

Wood avens looks right, I will did them up tomorrow. It seemingly has barbed seeds & can end up everywhere.

Thanks

Yes, wood avens, Geum urbanum. The juvenile leaves are quite unlike the adult leaves, so it's really handy to be able to recognise them young.

The upside is that Geums would probably do well in your soil. The downside is that you can't actually grow them because you're never sure whetehr you're uprooting a young G urbanum, or one of the
garden Geums that you've spent good money on.

It seemingly has barbed seeds & can end up everywhere. I've been thinking about that.You can find a big patch of them adhering to your clothing and think "that's going to be a bit of a job". But when you finally come indoors and settle to seed-removing, most of them have disappeared. I presume the mechanism is that they dry off, and as they dry, the hook loosens so the seed falls off. There'd have to be some such mechanism - it's no use a seed being stuck permanently to a sheep.