These tiny plants have popped up in my garden when I moved some soil around and it rained. Any idea what it is?
by Embarrassed-Band-515
These tiny plants have popped up in my garden when I moved some soil around and it rained. Any idea what it is?
by Embarrassed-Band-515
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Located in Tas
Looks like Dichondra Repens, it’s a native ground cover.
That looks like dichondra repens (kidney weed) to me ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichondra_repens ). It’s a nice plant to have! 🙂
Dichondra repens. Nice ground cover. Native
This looks to me like the emergent leaves of “flickweed” or Cardarmine hirsuta. Not Dichondra. You will know soon enough.
Do these do well in full hot sun? No grass seem to thrive on my verge, looking for an alternative.
https://preview.redd.it/75ymfe032wtg1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0de5a38d8f3f22ec1a4ff151daac7ebf987ae5ad
Kidney weed (dichondra repens), pic of my garden showing its full potential 😄
*Not Dichondra Repens* as many other commenters have suggested.
These are the first leaves of some other kind of plant – called cotyledons.
When the true leaves come in you will likely be able to ID, but again may depend on flower/fruit/seed. You can see the true leaves coming through between the pairs with spiky fibres coming off.
Post back next week and we might get somewhere.
Others have answered but you can also plant as a ground cover in your fish tank if you have one 🐠
As they have appeared in pairs and the uniform spread suggests that it’s juvenile leaves of another plant rather than dichondra. The initial shape of the leaf is quite similar to the kidney shaped leaf of dichondra, but the habit suggests it’s something else.
You’ know in the next few days as the mature leaves will emerge.
Diochrondria repens seed leaves are thin and tear drop shaped – so I doubt this is Diochrondria. Just wait and see when the true leaves emerge.