More than just grass

[pebblerocker]

A list of things that grow in my lawn - those that I could identify.

Yarrow
Red clover
White clover
Buttercups
Daisies
Kikuyu
Dandelions
Hawkbit, hawksbeard and/or catsear*
Plantain
Cleavers
Paspalum
Ryegrass
Browntop or Yorkshire fog**
Fescue
Sweet vernal
Onehunga weed
Blue speedwell
Mint
Oxalis
Dock
Thistle of some sort

*It's hard to tell the difference between all the yellow not-dandelion flowers, though I know I don't have oxtongue - it's pricklier.
**They look the same to me even when flowering.

And I had to look it up, but that purple flower I was wondering about is selfheal.

There is also silverbeet growing in my lawn, from where I uprooted some plants that had bolted and then left them lying on the ground for a while before bashing them up smaller for the compost bin, but they won't survive mowing. I should move a few seedlings so they can grow - but my crop rotation is a bit of a mess and the only spot I have for them grew silverbeet and then beetroot and then silverbeet again and really needs a break.

Comments

[dr-sponge.livejournal.com]

Interesting website - they need to add information on whether the plant is edible.

I probably have a fair few of the ones you list. My personal grudge is with pink shamrock.

I just mow around my random silverbeet colonies (I was going to post a photo of one - I'll try and get one tomorrow).

[pebblerocker]

After investigating and cataloguing my various vegetations, I made myself a salad which included dandelion, plantain and dock (the cleavers was growing too far away for my state of hunger) as well as the parsley, rosemary, basil and spring onions I grow on purpose. However I had run out of ripe home-made tomatoes and used some I'd bought instead.

I never realised I had two different types of oxalis, I thought the different sizes and shapes of leaf were caused by soil conditions or something. I have both the pink shamrock and creeping oxalis which has the smaller leaves and yellow flowers.