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I just took this picture in my garden and wonder if anyone knows what this is? A Google image search isn't working well. What are these plants, how invasive are they, and how do I get rid of them?

ETA: I can't seem to get the picture to load right, so here's the description: a short seedling with two butterfly-shaped leaves. Lots of them in my garden. Any notions?

two seedlings with pairs of butterfly-shaped leaves

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Date: 2020-05-31 12:57 am (UTC)
peoriapeoriawhereart: Janine Melnitz, Ghostbuster (Janine)
From: [personal profile] peoriapeoriawhereart
The picture seems not to be loading.

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Date: 2020-05-31 02:52 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] timespirt
The picture has errors so It's not loading.

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Date: 2020-05-31 01:09 pm (UTC)
peoriapeoriawhereart: fancy pen and some flowers (fountain pen)
From: [personal profile] peoriapeoriawhereart
Per that description, they are seedlings and will need to mature a bit more to know seedlings of what.

They aren't maple seedlings, probably aren't walnut seedlings, but, seedlings.

I've not DW picture posted, so I don't have technical help to proffer.

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Date: 2020-05-31 06:48 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] ewt
Bindweed doesn't come up looking like butterfly-shaped leaves to me; I was thinking maybe a brassica. You might do an image search for bindweed seedlings, though, and see if they look the same, because butterflies come in various shapes too...

Uprooting bindweed is also good. Impossible to do cleanly -- the roots break off -- but the more stuff it has to regrow, above or below the ground, the sooner the roots will be exhausted.

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Date: 2020-05-31 08:18 pm (UTC)
jadelennox: Senora Sabasa Garcia, by Goya (Default)
From: [personal profile] jadelennox
it sounded like morning glories to me, if you're only seeing the first leaf on the seedling, and not the second:

morning glory seedling, first pair of leaves

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Date: 2020-06-02 09:13 pm (UTC)
dantesspirit: (Default)
From: [personal profile] dantesspirit
Yeah, as seedlings, they look remarkably identical.

If you didn't plant them and there's no definite morning glories anywhere nearby, chances are they were very likely bindweed.

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