I have a raised garden bed on my patio, where I’ve planted some vegetables. This plant in the photo began sprouting; according to ChatGPT it’s a clover weed. But I don’t see how that would get in my raised bed unless I planted it, which I didn. I’ve moved it into a small pot inside
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A weed can be whatever you want it to be. It’s just an unwanted plant.
It can definitely get into a raised bed. Wind.
“Weed” is subjective. Looks like yellow woodsorrel, Oxalis stricta
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalis_stricta
It’s a kind of oxalis. Many consider it a weed, but there are certain oxalis that people plant on purpose.
Practically everyting is a weed and not a weed at the same time. Just a matter of perspective and preference. It’s a oxalis “lucky clover”
looks like wood sorrel-it will reward you with yellow flowers
It’s a wood sorrel. Often mistaken for clovers as they’re in the same family. Does it have little knobbly bulbs (corms) at the base of the plant? If so this is 100% wood sorrel and will do just fine in the garden in a corner of the flower bed or in the ground. It produces masses of pink flowers in the spring and summer and well worth holding onto as they don’t spread fast or take over other plants.
I’ve included a photo of a pink one (they come in pink, yellow, and white) at my neighbours house as they grow everywhere around here.
https://preview.redd.it/yroka1b74njf1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2aa7eac8c7681f9695aba6692aa1bb7b9937cb99
Looks like oxalis/shamrock. It will have white flowers.
Oxalis species. Nice!
Fun fact some Oxalis have fruits that look like tiny okras. Touch them at the right time & seeds explode outward.
I once heard that, ‘A rose bush in the middle of a corn field is a weed’.
Nothing else to add as I was here to learn what this lil baby is. And it’s cute
I once heard that, ‘A rose bush in the middle of a corn field is a weed’.
Nothing else to add as I was here to learn what this lil baby is.
Eat it, tastes like green apples
Growing up in Oregon we came across something like this in the woods and in my grandmother’s garden. We called it “sour grass” (maybe we should have called it “sour clover” ) and munched on it while out playing.
Looks like a clover. I consider it a weed.
In my opinion there’s no such thing as weeds, but that looks like wood sorrel to me. It has medicinal benefits, but you have to be careful not to take too much because of the oxalic acid. 🙂
No, it’s green Wood Sorrel.
You have a great starter plant there. It will open up as it gets sunlight.
It is called, nyctinasty or sleep movements. It opens and closes with the sun.
Do not throw it away if the leaves turn brown. It is just going into a dormant state. It does this to store energy to green up and bloom in the spring.
It’s sold every Saint Patrick’s Day in grocery stores as Shamrocks. But it isn’t.
It is often mistaken for Shamrocks by gardening companies who figure it has 3 leaves, it’s St Patrick’s Day. But truthfully, Wood Sorrel and Oxalis, which is next, are commercially sold as Shamrocks each year. They are entirely different plants.
Oxalis Triangularis which comes in green and a red variety, is also mistaken for Shamrocks. They are not Shamrocks. Each stem will have 3 leaves shaped as triangles.
Even though they are not Shamrocks, the Red variety makes, IMHO, the most beautiful house plant. But it is not Shamrocks, even one of its names is “False Shamrocks”.
Shamrocks, in Gaelic, are Seamóg. They are not a specific species but are generally applied to Trifolium Repens (white clover), and Trifolium Dubium for lesser trefoil.
If you buy a plant in Spring and it says Oxalis or Sorrel, you do not have a Shamrock. If it says Trifoil, or Trifoilium, you got the official Shamrock.
True Shamrocks have heart-shaped leaves. Probably the only people who care are those of us lucky enough to have Irish blood.
I’m 2nd-generation born in the US. My mom was born 2 hours after her family got off the boat and went through immigration! I never met her, but I bet she held on until she got into this country to give birth to Mom. It’s where my knowledge of Ireland and our heritage comes from.
Wood Sorrel and Oxalis have flowers that are mainly tiny white, trumpet-shaped flowers.
There’s also a plant called Phlox that is an edging plant. Phlox usually has small flowers of blue, pink, and white. I read earlier this year in a Container Gardening Magazine that there was a new, larger variety of Phlox. It is large enough to be mistaken for Wood Sorrel.
Everything can be considered a weed. I see plants being sold at nurseries all the time that you can dig up.on the side of a road. If you like it who cares what it is.
It’s nice to throw into a salad. Gives a little tartness.