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Can anyone identify these please

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Suffolkelfie · 09/06/2021 10:59

Hi,
Can anyone identify these two plants please?

Can anyone identify these please
Can anyone identify these please
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mathswall · 09/06/2021 11:09

First one looks like bindweed you need to remove it and all the roots or it will spread everywhere

Beebumble2 · 09/06/2021 11:35

I would say the first picture is wild violets, past flowering for this year, but if you can leave them, pretty next spring.
The second looks like a wild dog daisy. Both are wild flowers and personally I’d leave them.

senua · 09/06/2021 12:19

Is the second one malva moschata?

EBearhug · 09/06/2021 12:54

I think the first is violets. Not sure of the second.

Polly99 · 09/06/2021 13:03

Bindweed and malva (musk mallow)

The first should be destroyed before it gets everywhere, the second is I think rather pretty.

SiobhanSharpe · 09/06/2021 13:09

If you pull up a small part of the first plant and it has a fairly long thin root underground that 'travels' it is indeed highly likely to be bindweed and you will have to pull up every bit of (roots too) to eradicate it.

CatchThatCat · 09/06/2021 13:19

Early dog violet and Musk mallow, according to my Picture this app

Can anyone identify these please
Can anyone identify these please
ErrolTheDragon · 09/06/2021 13:45

The leaves on the first photo look slightly toothed, so I'd be pretty sure they're dog violets not bindweed. They also don't look at all log and twining like bindweed.

I've had a lot of dog violets appeared in my back garden this year. They're in odd places such as under the bench of the arbour where I like them - I think they're one of the types of plant which is a wildflower in one place but a weed in another so your choice whether to remove or keep.

Suffolkelfie · 09/06/2021 17:12

Thank you for all the replies.

I planted some violets in another part of the garden so did originally think the plant in the first photo was a violet. However, it does look a bit different to the purchased plants. I think that the seeds resulting from the purchased plants must have reverted back to the original wild flower violet. I have noticed a few around the garden, so will leave those that are not in the way.

I was weeding near the plants in the second photo this afternoon and dug up part of a plant label for Malva moschata 'Rosea'. So I think @senua, @Polly99 and @CatchThatCat are correct.

Thank you all for your help.

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MereDintofPandiculation · 09/06/2021 20:09

The first one is either dog violet Viola riviniana or early dog violet Viola reichenbagiana. It is clearly not bindweed because of the shape of the leaves and the presence of the typical 3 sided seed capsules of Viola. Secondly, bindweed (Calystegia sp and Convolvulus sp) are only just coming into flower and certainly will not have seed pods at this time of year. Your purchased violets might have been sweet violet Viola odorata which has rounder leaves. The dog violet could have come in independently - they seed very freely.

ErrolTheDragon · 09/06/2021 22:51

The dog violet could have come in independently - they seed very freely.

Mine have appeared out of nowhere this year, I've got Labrador violets in the front garden but didn't have any type in the back.

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