Name that plant
Details:
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Date Photo Taken
09 / 08 / 2012
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Season Photo Was Taken
Fall
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Region Photo Was Taken
Southeast
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City
Roswell
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State
Georgia
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Posted by
sdbrophy
Notes:
This lovely creeper just showed up this year and has lovely little pink flowers so I’m wondering if I should yank it out quick or let it fill in. We did not have this plant for the past 5 YEARS!! It just appeared in our courtyard and I don’t know where it came from. Keep or kill?
Comments
sdbrophy Registered says:
Thanks, Bobby! Good news it’s one less thing to fight — and it’s so lovely.
September 11th, 2012 at 10:20pm
Walter Reeves The Georgia Gardener says:
Bobby – thanks for introducing me to the Sparkleberry Springs website….I learned a new word: loment. As in “Dang, I’ve got loments all over my pants!!”
September 10th, 2012 at 9:56pm
Bobby Master Identifier says:
Desmodium rotundifolium. Free ground cover but, patience may be required! I’ve only seen small patches of this in the field. It seems to prefer indirect morning sun and filtered afternoon sun. It has tough woody crown and upper root. I’ve seen it come back on shaded street right of ways after extreme drought conditions. I think it dies completely back during the winter. It is a member of the wild pea family and its common name is prostrate ticktrefoil AKA one of the beggarlices. http://sparkleberrysprings.com/v-web/b2/index.php?p=1976
September 10th, 2012 at 9:39pm