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What is this plant?

It grows into vines a few feet long, not very tangly, that run along the ground and don’t seem to climb. It seems to grow in large numbers of smaller vines that don’t seem to be connected in the roots.

Its completely blanketing my garden, choking out even other weeds, trying to expand into my lawn, and growing almost as fast as I weed it.

I’m wondering what it is, and/or if there are any particularly good ways of dealing with it. I’ve been tilling the ground, flipping over the soil (down to roughly a foot) and putting a layer of mulch over it, but Im still having stuff grow back.

MrQuallzin ,

Google image search gives me this guy, which sounds and looks right www.namethatplant.net/plantdetail.shtml?plant=163…

PlzGivHugs OP ,

The ones in my garden haven’t produced any flowers (might have something to do with me trying to kill them) but it does look like it, esspecially this picture from Wikipedia.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/74/Vinca_minor_patch_MN_2007.JPG/1280px-Vinca_minor_patch_MN_2007.JPG

I think its solved.

Don_Dickle , (edited )

Side note so we can link an image and it will appear here than the site? So we can give lemmy.world more clicks? And hopefully give reddit a run for its money.

JustZ ,
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Yes, and thanks Mr. Dickle.

Don_Dickle ,

So how can I put images I take from my desktop to here? I don’t see a browse button.

dan1101 ,

I know it as Periwinkle, it has purple flowers occasionally and is good as a ground cover. I plant it intentionally in shady places that tend to get weeds. I haven’t had any problems with it spreading into my yard.

PlzGivHugs OP ,

Yeah, its not terrible looking, but even ignoring the fact that its spreading into the lawn, I am hoping to plant more productive plants, and the ground-cover is so thick its hard to cut through to get to the ground, nonetheless letting my plants grow through it.

It also doesn’t help that I now know its considered an invasive species in my region (along with 99% of the other stuff that was in the garden when I moved in) so probably a good idea to get rid of it for that reason too.

Bangs42 ,
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Makes me miss /r/whatisthisthing.

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