Solved These are popping up everywhere.

Hi All, I have these popping up everywhere in the front garden. Any idea what they are?



Rusty

 

Look like young willowherb seedlings to me.

 

I was just about to type the name and say I have loads when wham!
I've gone blank. I'm in the fifth week of recovering from covid and I can tell you, it rots your brain cells. Some one better answer this quick because I won't sleep tonight if I can't remember it

 

I think it's valerianella locusta, corn salad. Tiny white flowers and it's meant to be edible.
I had to scroll back through hundreds of photos to find some that were growing beneath a leycesteria as I knew I'd named it.....at least I think I've got the right stuff

 

Well, thanks, @flounder! Now I know it's proper name, I'll drop the epithet I've been using
I think the OP's weed is probably willowherb, though. It looks awfully familiar....

 

No, not convinced with a willow herb. I know there are hundreds of different types, most which grow in my garden, but the initial growth is very similar to myosotis, not epilobium

 

Great Willowherb (plus Hairy Bittercress and Dandelion).

 

Just remembered a common name for them, lambs lettuce. I still don't think it's epilobium, but we'll see in about three months time

 

I get a lot of that growing too. Ive been pulling it up as a weed. Can I eat it instead then?

 

I've personally never tried it as I prefer iceberg or romaine! A quick read suggests this was used by peasants as a form of sustenance. I might try it now, as I've been called a lot worse!

 

It's a badge of honour here The French do still eat all sorts of wild salads. Mache (Lamb's Lettuce), Pissenlit (Dandelion), Pourpier (Purslane), Fat Hen, Amaranthus ....

 

Ive actually bought a bag of lambs lettuce in Asda in the past and Ive all of a sudden remembered I had a packet of seeds of it last year...I guess that's where its come from. Of course if you don't hear from me again its because I ate it and it wasn't Lambs Lettuce after all...........

 

Thanks all. I don’t think I will risk eating it and will get rid of it. Didn’t want to get rid if it was something like forget me not ( no such luck).

Rusty