What is this growing in my flower bed ?

[AlwaysOnTheRun1014]

Dear all,

Please can someone help me identify this ? I have not planted it, it’s growing in the flower bed and taking up more space slowly.

I’m new to gardening, looks very nice but I don’t know if it will invade the garden like blackberry bushes did. Please can you tell me what is it? Is it dangerous?

Euphorbia? If you snap the stem does it exude white milky sap? If it is, the sap's irritant and can bring you up in blisters if you get it on skin that's exposed to sunlight. It does have pretty green flowers.

Pull most of it up, whatever it is. It's being altogether too enthusiastic.

i just put your photo in my PlantNet app and it came back with Hypericum Calycinum (St John’s Wort).

I’ve got one in my garden and it has lovely yellow flowers in the summer.

Possibly hypericum. The rose of Sharon ground cover type.

Don’t pull it up! It’s not a weed.

I was going to say St. John's wort. They have yellow flowers and then black berries. The do spread a lot but they are a pretty plant.

It is pretty but it is also quite invasive. If you have a lot of ground you want easily covered it's great. If you have only a little space it's a pain ime.

@BewareTheBeardedDragon

It is pretty but it is also quite invasive. If you have a lot of ground you want easily covered it's great. If you have only a little space it's a pain ime.

Fair enough. I have it growing under my magnolia tree and it looks lovely but I can see why you wouldn’t want it if you are short of space.

OP if you’re new to gardening I would recommend the PlantNet app - you put your photo in and it identifies it for you. And the app is free.

Wow thank you so much everyone.

Thank you, I will download the app:)

OP if you’re new to gardening I would recommend the PlantNet app - you put your photo in and it identifies it for you. And the app is free. No it doesn't identify it- it finds a picture which appears to look the same and tells you the name of the plant in the picture. Plant apps can get things very wrong and don't realise they have. you should only ever treat them as a suggestion for further research. They're no better than you leafing through pictures on google looking for a match - it's just that they're a lot quicker at it.

I agree this looks like a Hypericum, but if it's Hypericum calycinum, you would expect brownish quite tough stems, and some sort of woody base. To be growing at that density and what looks like only a few inches high it would be a mature plant that was pruned down to ground level last autumn.

@MereDintofPandiculation

Well excuse me

I thought it looked like a honeysuckle that has been cut back

Hypericum

[quote WarmDuscher]@MereDintofPandiculation

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Name change fail? If you're actually ThatsShitTryHarder, I don't know why you're rolling your eyes. Plant apps have limitations - there have been some very "off" plant app ids on here, for example identifying a shrub as a small creeping rock plant. It's not helpful to a novice to be told "this plant app will identify it for you" without saying that sometimes it will give completely the wrong answer.