Ooooh, this is a good one.
Factoids:
– Tropical, but doing well in our campus garden (Blacksburg, VA).
– Succulent stems; alternate, lima bean-shaped leaves.
– Rampant scampering.
– Very cute yellow flowers. (Hee hee, that really won’t help.)
– I hesitate to say this, ’cause it may just give it away: a couple of other members of this genus are common as mud.
Guesses, anyone? Or maybe this one’s already common as mud for you Pacific Northwesterners…
(and P-Dub, do refrain until others have had a chance 😉
I’ll post the "D’oh!" flower photo in the morning.
Hellebore and Hosta for scale. There are flowers, just not in this pic.
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Well, it looks a lot like my least favorite weed in our Buffalo garden, but not a nuisance for us now. But the leaves are the wrong shape! I’m pretty sure I know the genus (starts with a P), so I won’t spoil it.
Looks like it’s related to purslane, or Portulaca oleracea; those stems look identical to P. oleracea, but the leaves tell a different story. This one looks like a pretty enthusiastic spreader.
Looks like purslane to me too. Also looks like a real pain in the pa-toot once it has moved into the garden.
It looks like some kind of purslane. I tried eating some last week – not bad.
I really liked this plant anyway (we have one spilling out of a basket at home), but even more so now that I realize no one knows it. Good one Holly!
It looks like a purslane but the leaves are different. Boy this a interesting.