unknown plant in my garden

[rafiwinters]

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?

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[peoriapeoriawhereart]

The picture seems not to be loading.

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[rafiwinters]

Sigh. I thought I had that figured out... it's confusing. Hang on while I edit the post to describe the plant.

[timespirt]

The picture has errors so It's not loading.

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[rafiwinters]

Drat, I thought I did it right. I'm going to edit the post and just describe the plant.

[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.

[rafiwinters]

I'm now getting information from some folx that these are possibly either morning glories or bindweed aka wild morning glories. Both seem to be pretty invasive. Project for the day is go and start getting rid of them. If they are what they might be, apparently what one wants to do is not uproot them but to cut them off at ground level. Forces the plant to spend energy growing new local shoots rather than spending energy propagating underground.

[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.

Uprooting bindweed is also good

[rafiwinters]

Ah, good to know. I think I'll try uprooting some and snipping others. (And then I'll figure out how the heck to properly insert photos in my posts, so I can actually show people what I mean!)

[jadelennox]

it sounded like morning glories to me, if you're only seeing the first leaf on the seedling, and not the second:

[rafiwinters]

That plant in your picture is exactly what I'm seeing.

[dantesspirit]

From the description of the seedlings, it sounds like morning glories, or that family of vining flowers.

https://www.google.com/search?q=morning+glory+seedlings&newwindow=1&sxsrf=ALeKk02lQjhcTcy8MRKR6hFnxxjFRjeCHQ:1591028213607&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjNn__7geHpAhVWbs0KHbDqDJwQ_AUoAXoECBQQAw&biw=1280&bih=902

For images to see if they match.

[rafiwinters]

Thanks for the link. I recognize some of those seedlings but am unable to determine whether it's morning glory or bindweed. I gather they're very similar. In any case, I've decided I don't want them taking over (very invasive), so I've pulled up/cut down a lot of them today.

[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.

[rafiwinters]

Either way, I pulled/cut down all of them that I could reach.