I'm new to gardening. I have a few things growing in my garden that I have no idea what they are. I don't want to leave any weeds growing but I don't want to pull anything that might actually be something worth keeping so any help would be greatly appreciated! Last year, my girlfriend & I planted some things, but lack of communication left us wondering exactly what we planted. I tried to search the names of what we planted, but that didn't really work out. I can't seem to figure out how to post more than one pic, so I'll just copy/paste this message and attach the different pics for the different plants. Thanks!
Help Identifying #1
Could be either a wild or domesticated strawberry. White blooms are domesticated and the "bad" wild ones, around here at least, have yellow. There are wild edible strawberries but AFAIK the yellow blooms ones aren't.
Not an actual strawberry (Fragaria spp.)... It may be Duchesnea indica:
http://www.google.ca/imgres?imgurl=http://www.missouriplants.com/Yellowalt/Duchesnea_indica_plant.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.missouriplants.com/Yellowalt/Duchesnea_indica_page.html&usg=__9S3xcU1Cg-e1HDz9IU2103yjNl0=&h=417&w=540&sz=73&hl=en&start=1&um=1&itbs=1&tbnid=47shkL1RhRv7YM:&tbnh=102&tbnw=132&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dduchesnea%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26client%3Dsafari%26rls%3Den%26tbs%3Disch:1
I am frequently fooled by these... my other thoughts are the basal leaves of Potentilla norvegica or of Geum canadense.
We have this exact plant in our garden... I'm fairly certain that it's a wild strawberry. The berries we've gotten from the plant have been very little, about the size of an small acorn. BUT, if you don't want it... GET RID OF IT. Pull it, kill it, whatever... it spreads like wild fire.
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