Could anyone tell me if these are Californian Poppy seedlings please?

[waltzingparrot]

I sprinkled a packet of Californian Poppy 'Mission Bells' into new general purpose compost in this stone pot which is currently indoors in my dining room. These came up quickly, but I seem to get these / similar stuff in my pots every year and I've always pulled these 'weeds' out.

Are these my paid for seedlings?

Can't find a picture of Poppy Mission Bell seedlings anywhere.

I don't think so / they look like a weed that I get whose name i forget. It has little yellow flowers I think and spread like crazy.

Oxalis. The weedy sort, I think. Spreads rapidly.

Californian poppy seedlings come up as a thin sort of cross shape, like 2 little snakes tongues pointing in opposite directions. Once you have exstablished these, you will have them forever! They self seed like crazy.

@Janedownourlane

Californian poppy seedlings come up as a thin sort of cross shape, like 2 little snakes tongues pointing in opposite directions. Once you have exstablished these, you will have them forever! They self seed like crazy.

I've got one of those little snake tongues in my pot. I planted loads of seeds - why have I only got one seedling!

So the garden centre just sold me a bag of really weedy compost then??

Thank you all. I'll weed it all out in the morning.

That looks like creeping wood sorrel which is a weed of the Oxalis family.
Spread by tiny bulbils underground and the most annoying thing is it thrives in both sun and shade and can flower and seed anytime in the year so on it is a continuous battle to get rid of it.

That looks like creeping wood sorrel I'd not heard it called that before. Must be a US name, because a Google search contrasts it with the ordinary common "yellow flowered Wood sorrel", whereas, of course, our Wood sorrel has white flowers.

It's the only weed that I give to the Council instead of throwing it on my compost heap.

why have I only got one seedling! Because, I think, that conditions are always dead right or they're not. I get either 100% germination or 0%, nothing in between. You can do everything within your knowledge and power to get conditions right and it still won't be quite what the seeds want.

I am not American and never been to America but I have always called it creeping wood sorrel. It is what my mum always called it.
It is the bane of my life as I am always pulling it up from my pots and the gaps in my patio.

We need an edit button as I should have added my mum was not born in England or even Europe but neither is she American. Seems like weeds have different common names all around the world.

I also have never succeeded with Californian Poppies. I think, as MereDint says, it's an all or nothing type of thing.
Nevertheless I have more seeds this year and I'm going to give it yet another go.

We had this in our garden when I was a child. We called it sorrel but it is oxalis. It tastes nice! It's lemony.

Seems like weeds have different common names all around the world. All well-known plants do, even within a country. It's why it makes sense to use scientific nomenclature. Try asking someone about Gillieflowers - you'll get a different answer depending on where you are.

We called it sorrel but it is oxalis. Sorrel is in the dock family and has long been eaten - I think, but am not sure, that it's the "dock" of "dock pudding". Because it has the same taste, Oxalis acetosella is called wood sorrel, and I think the rest of the genus taste the same. Oca grown for its tubers, is also an Oxalis and has the smae lemony taste.

Oxalis contains oxalic acid, which would give the sharpness. You also get it in rhubarb, which is dock family, so I guess that's why sorrel in the dock family has a similar taste. The reason for not picking rhubarb too late in the season is that the oxalic acid levels rise, and react in with calcium in your body to give calcium oxalate crystals, which don't do your joints any good. Also why you're recommended to eat calcium (eg custard) with rhubarb - whetehr that does the slightest bit of good I have no idea.

Oh god - I eat loads of sorrel, and a lesser amount but still reasonable amount of rhubarb - might I be giving myself arthritis when I'm older?
Both of these are some of my best performing perennial veg 😱😱😱

Are they columbine seedlings?

Poppy doesn’t like to be disturbed so you might want to leave weeding it until you have some actual seedlings coming up

Bewarethebearded

Apparently, you should eat cheese with sorrel to stop calcium leaching from your bones. I love the stuff & do a sorrel salad with feta crumbled on the top.

@AlwaysLatte. They do look very, very like the Oxalis seedling images. I'm going to go with that.

@Thighdentitycrisis. Ah, too late I'm afraid. They've been weeded.

It’s oxalis.
You need to dig out every single tiny bloody bulb to get rid of it.