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ms8miranda
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Can anyone tell me what this is?  -
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MaryReboakly
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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?

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Meg
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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.

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Plants: 2517 | From: West Virginia | Registered: Jun 2004  |  Seeded: 69.160.107.49
RugbyHukr
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I was, also, going to suggest hollyhock.

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MinnesotaGirlie
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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!

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Plants: 56 | From: Burnsville, MN | Registered: Jul 2005  |  Seeded: 66.41.249.15
Meg
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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.

Meg

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BFVISION
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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.

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Plants: 197 | From: NJ, NORTHERN COUNTY | Registered: Aug 2003  |  Seeded: 69.68.160.242
Tamara from Minnesota
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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 [Big Grin]

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Carly
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Wild strawberry?

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Plants: 2784 | From: Toronto, Canada | Registered: Jul 2004  |  Seeded: 69.194.112.206
ms8miranda
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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.
Plants: 36 | From: South Dakota | Registered: May 2004  |  Seeded: 24.111.32.185
Triss
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Sure looks like hollyhock to me.

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Plants: 30076 | From: Washington, the state that is... | Registered: Aug 2004  |  Seeded: 139.55.218.123
MaryReboakly
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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! [Big Grin]

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Plants: 1561 | From: z6 S. Illinois | Registered: May 2005  |  Seeded: 69.19.14.15
MaryReboakly
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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. [dunno]

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Plants: 1561 | From: z6 S. Illinois | Registered: May 2005  |  Seeded: 69.19.14.15
Triss
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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.

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MaryReboakly
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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]

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weezie13
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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..

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Plants: 29299 | From: N.Y. | Registered: Apr 2003  |  Seeded: 24.49.115.46
Triss
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weedie eye? I thought is was a weezie eye??? [Big Grin]

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Plants: 30076 | From: Washington, the state that is... | Registered: Aug 2004  |  Seeded: 139.55.218.123
MaryReboakly
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Creeping charlie: ?

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weezie13
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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???

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done this have entertained angels without realizing it.
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Meg
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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. [Roll Eyes]

Meg

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Plants: 2517 | From: West Virginia | Registered: Jun 2004  |  Seeded: 69.160.107.49
MaryReboakly
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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! [Big Grin]

I can be Soooooooooo difficult [Big Grin]

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

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Plants: 1561 | From: z6 S. Illinois | Registered: May 2005  |  Seeded: 66.82.9.85
Meg
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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. [Roll Eyes] He pretty much *never* mows.. it was a freak thing.

Meg

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Karrie
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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! [Big Grin]

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Plants: 2379 | From: Dyersburg, Tennessee | Registered: Jun 2005  |  Seeded: 209.132.163.137
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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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