Another plant ID. Is this lady’s mantle?

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Neighbours and myself have a lot of it - so it must be something that spreads. Never seen leaves with this shape before?

Only moved here in the winter so everything is a surprise at the moment!

Yes it is. In some gardens it can become a pest, if you don’t want it everywhere then cut the flowers before they flower.
For some reason I can never get it to stay in my garden.

Thanks @Beebumble2

It’s a woody garden - maybe it likes the conditions - and it’ll only have sun for about an hour a day. It’s also in beds further down the garden which are pretty much woodland totally - it’s popping up amongst the wood anemone and bluebells. I’ll watch it this year and if it spreads I’ll keep it in check. The other profusion is aquilegia - we have dozens and dozens of those!

Woodland gardens can be so pretty. Cranesbill geraniums and hydrangeas do well in woodland gardens, if there’s dappled shade.

Yes, lucky you! It’s one of those things I keep trying to introduce to my garden and it doesn’t take. Meanwhile, I know, it grows like a weed for some people.

It is and it is lovely. Beautiful pale green flowers and the leaves are stunning after rain.

It took me ages to get it established in my garden, it didn’t like any of the places I put it!

It spreads like wildfire in my garden! What sort of environment does it like best?

@SallyOMalley

It spreads like wildfire in my garden! What sort of environment does it like best?

What environment does it like?

It likes your garden better than mine, that's for sure. I can't get it to establish at all. MIL has tons of the stuff and hates it so I keep transplanting it into my garden, but it fades away after about 18 months.

Thank you all.
We are lucky to have a long garden where lots of it is wooded but the house end is relatively traditional. So we have a real split.

In the wooded end end we have masses of rhododendron, fatsia japonica, ferns, hellebore, wood anemone, wild garlic, English bluebells, snowdrops. I wait to see what more comes up.

The soil is dense and clay. The trees are birch and oak.

Down the other end is lighter but we seem to have prolific lady’s mantle, aquilegia, campanula, hardy geranium, loads of primroses, more hellebore, fruit trees and peonies with masses of buds coming.

The lady’s mantle in the photo is in an awful spot, I’ve trodden on it many times, it’s shaded a lot. Must be happy!

It’s a woody garden - maybe it likes the conditions It's OK in full sun as well. I know a quarry, a nature reserve where it's taking over the quarry floor. But it does get inundated every time there's heavy rain, so maybe its requirement is for moist soil?

It's sad that it's escaping into the wild because there are quite a few native species in the wild, and one just hopes they don't get pushed out by this one.

I also have a wooded garden and it comes up everywhere. Hard to dig out too! It is pretty, though. The leaves remind me of cockle shells.

I don’t get the attraction myself, I think it’s an awfully ugly plant.
The other plants mentioned,
Peonies, aquilegia, bluebells etc etc, lovely.
Ladies mantle?
No, not for me.
I’d dig it all up!