ID please?

[mrbadexample]

My mum says she can't remember the name but it's a weed, it spreads, she pulls it out. It wasn't in flower when I brought it from the old house thinking it was verbena.



So, should I be getting rid of it?

Cheers, MBE

[nickdub]

It is a weed, and like your mum I can't remember its name either :-) As for getting rid of it that's really up to you. It has small yellowy orange flowers and only spreads by seeding. I grow lots of weeds on my garden - in fact they probably account for over 75% of what grows there

[mothhawk]

Wood avens, AKA herb bennet, St. Benedict's herb, a member of the geum family. You can eat it! Add young leaves to salads. The roots, I'm told smell of cloves so you can dry them and put them in the wardrobe to deter moths

[chillithyme]

Thought it was a weed or a geum, nice one mothawk for getting it spot on
but I'm not sure if I'd want to eat it, hehe

[veggiechicken]

I have Wood Avens in the garden - its a pest as it forms little hooked burrs after flowering which stick in the dog's fur. I pull it out and bin it.

[mrbadexample]

Thanks all. I've had a look and although it does seem to have its uses, I'm probably going to pull this one out. I'll replace it with some actual, genuine, verbena because that's what I thought it was when I moved it. I can now see it really doesn't look like it at all. I only knew roughly where it was and it was late etc etc.