POSTED: April 28, 2007 by Dawn
Is this a plant or a weed? The flower is not as blue/purple as in the photo, it is more pink. Also, the stems of the plant are rather red, in striking contrast to the green leaves.
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Wow Pearl_girl, you really nailed it! That's definitely what it is.
Now I think I shall have to go back outside and serve up a nice drink with an apology to my garden guest. Hopefully this guest will forgive me for even THINKING it could be a lowly weed, and stay on as a permanent resident in my garden. Hopefully that will be enough, but I am willing to bump up the standards of its quarters, should a space with better light be more suitable. :)
before i saw pearlgirls thorogh explanation i was going to just say...looks like a wild geranium to me. my pearl, you are a wealth of information :D :clapping:
HERB ROBERT (GERANIUM ROBERTIANUM)
Hardy perennial, pretty plant growing 9 - 15 ins high. Member of the Geranium family. Also known as Puck, Wren Flower, Granny-thread-the-needle, Hop-o'my-thumb, Bloodwort and Robin-i'-th'-hedge. The name Robert, or sometimes Robin, refers to the medieval folklore hero, Robin Goodfellow, a household sprite, who haunted woodland houses. Also associated with the Robin, a bad luck bird if it flies indoors. Indeed, all flowers named Robin have associations with devils, death and fairies.
Dark to bright green, finely divided frondy leaves and pinky-red five-petalled flowers from May to December. The plant is covered in small silvery hairs which yield a fox-like smell when crushed. Found in the wild in hedgerows, woods, walls, grasslands and by the sea. Food plant of bees, long-tongued hoverflies and small insects and Barred Carpet moth.
Name comes from the Greek "geranus" meaning crane, so called because the seedheads resemble crane beaks. Its English name probably comes from Abbot Robert, who founded the Cistercian order in the eleventh-century.
I'm kind of hoping it's a Cranesbill or Hardy Geranium, but I'm not familiar with those and can't call it. I found something like this before in the garden, but DH weedwacked it before I could see what it would grow into!
Weeeeell, if you like it - it's a plant; if not - it's a weed :p
Sorry, no help here but that's the extent of my gardening knowledge. :)