Re: creepers or what?

Does it have a rather garlic-y odor when you pull it? If so, it is most
likely garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata, a truly horrible, invasive and
noxious weed. It's a biennial and forms a rosette of roundish leaves in its
first year. Here is a link to an image of the first year plant.

http://www.hort.uconn.edu/cipwg/art_pubs/images/alliarica2.jpg

For a description of the mature plant and its effects, see

http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/fact/alpe1.htm

One of the most disgusting things about this plant is that it may flower,
and I assume, set seed when it is less than four inches tall.

Maria 
NE PA, zone 5b

 
> but there's a weed that seems to be everywhere, and I'd like to try to
> get it under control now; but it looks so much like a plant I'd want, I
> have to be sure; so can someone tell me what it is?  It has leaves very
> like hollyhock leaves, and also something like pelargonium leaves
> (that's the real name for what many call geraniums, right?), and they
> grow out of a central nexus; the leaves are green and have a little
> design on their surface.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Isabelle Hayes

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