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#98160 July 29th, 2005 at 10:14 AM
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Can anyone tell me what this is? weeds%201.jpg" alt="[Linked Image]" class="post-image" style="height:auto!important;max-width:100%!important;"/>

#98161 July 29th, 2005 at 12:03 PM
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Hmm looks like you might have a malva/marrow - are all the leaves on one stalk or is each one coming up out of the ground separately? If they're coming up separately, it could be creeping charlie/ground ivy Whaddya think?

#98162 July 29th, 2005 at 03:53 PM
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The leaves remind me of my Hollyhock that I started this year. They take 2 years to grow & bloom. I'll try to get a pic when the sun comes up.

#98163 July 29th, 2005 at 08:19 PM
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I was, also, going to suggest Hollyhock.

#98164 July 29th, 2005 at 08:48 PM
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My lawn is over-ridden with creeping charlie. The leaves look similar, but too big to be charlie. If it is charlie, it will have tiny purple flowers, it's in the orchid family and they are really cute, but it is known to "creep" all over the place!

#98165 July 29th, 2005 at 08:57 PM
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Ok, here's a photo of my Hollyhock leaves, that I just started this spring.

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So, I think they look pretty similar to your leaves.

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#98166 August 1st, 2005 at 04:33 AM
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That looks just like a vine I have been trying to rid my lawn of for two yrs. The garden center by me said it is a perenial vine and left un- checked will slowly take over the lawn. I am in the process of using weed be gone in my tank sprayer. They pop up with little purple flowers in late spring and can really smother the lawn.

#98167 August 5th, 2005 at 04:51 AM
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It is funny how size makes such a difference here. If it is small it is creeping charlie, medium is malva (all over my garden) and big is Hollyhock. Without the scale it is hard to tell. LOL laugh

#98168 August 8th, 2005 at 12:20 PM
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Wild strawberry?

#98169 August 8th, 2005 at 09:23 PM
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Well...the leaves do get quite large. To give you an idea of the size, to the right you can see some leaves from a new catnip plant. They look a lot like the Hollyhock leaves but are rounder. Each leaf comes out of the ground separately but from the same spot.

#98170 August 8th, 2005 at 10:28 PM
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Sure looks like Hollyhock to me.

#98171 August 9th, 2005 at 12:38 AM
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I think, if it's all coming out of the ground on separate stalks yet in the same spot then it's not Hollyhock - because Hollyhocks grow all leaves on 1 main stalk...right? Unless there are other leaves on each main stalk? I can't really tell...but I'm sticking with creeping charlie! laugh

#98172 August 9th, 2005 at 12:44 AM
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Nah, I dunno. I think I wanna take that back. it looks to me like creeping charlie has more serrated edges than this does.

creeping charlie

I dunno though - doesn't grow like malva or Hollyhock stem-wise. Duh

#98173 August 9th, 2005 at 12:52 AM
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Before mine bloomed this year it looked like a patch of leaves with no real stalks. Eventually it did grow up and then got leaves on teh stalks but last year it looked more like what she showed.

I do however think I have the Creeping Charlie in my lawn. I pull it all the time.

#98174 August 9th, 2005 at 06:49 AM
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I went to the post office this morning, and I think I saw creeping charlie...it's a little more ruffled on the edges, and a bit more shiny-like, if what I saw was in fact creeping charlie! confused

#98175 August 9th, 2005 at 07:30 AM
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My weedie eye says the Hollyhock/malva family...

NOT Creepin' Charlie!!!!
The creepin charlie is a ground cover..
it can grow up in the air if supported by
something else taller, growing side of it...
other wise it's too week to stand straight up..

#98176 August 9th, 2005 at 07:32 AM
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weedie eye? I thought is was a weezie eye??? laugh

#98177 August 9th, 2005 at 08:54 AM
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Creeping charlie: ?

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#98178 August 9th, 2005 at 09:26 AM
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Mary,
Get your weedie eyeballs out..
and do a check...
Open the first picture...the one originally posted.
Then go and open your photo...
and if you can, see them side by side...

Notice the texture on the first leaves..
It's rough looking...bumpy sorta..
Your photo's leaves are smooth...

And even though they have scalloped edges...
They're not as scalloped as your photo..
and the veining is different too!!!!
The veining almost makes it like sections in the original one... the other one you posted, they
seem to disappear into the end of the leaf.

Do you notice a difference???

#98179 August 9th, 2005 at 06:03 PM
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IF this is Hollyhock (and I'm almost certain it is), they take 2 years to get thier flowers. So, you'd only see the green this year. Those seriously look just like the Hollyhock leaves I *had*, until Steve decided to help me mow one day the past week. :rolleyes:

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#98180 August 9th, 2005 at 08:12 PM
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Yeahhhhh I see the difference confused So I'll let go of the creeping charlie idea and I'll go with the majority and say malva or Hollyhock! laugh

I can be Soooooooooo difficult laugh

Hey Meg - do ya have spare bricks/big rocks? That's what I use to protect my stuff from my 'yard help' LOL!

#98181 August 9th, 2005 at 08:20 PM
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Yeaaaaaaa... LOTS of rocks, that I dug up when I wanted to plant stuff..lol. BUT, I had this planted next to my deck, in a "bald spot". Some weeds had grown near it, and he wasn't thinking I'd planted anything there.. You almost couldn't see the Hollyhock without looking for it. He also wouldn't have recognized it, cuz, well, he doesn't do that "gardening stuff". By the time I saw where he was mowing, it was to late to yell stop. He wouldn't have heard me over the mower. :rolleyes: He pretty much *never* mows.. it was a freak thing.

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#98182 August 9th, 2005 at 09:14 PM
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WoW Meg my hubby never mows eithor, but let me say he proudly wears the John Deer "owners" edition only hat. I told him last week that owner ment rider to hand the hat over! laugh

#98183 August 9th, 2005 at 09:31 PM
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Meg,

My Hollyhocks got mowed over last year and both places where they got mowed bloomed this year. So I hope yours come back and bloom next year as well.


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