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Does anyone know what this ground cover is?
I have it on about 40% of my lawn and it’s buttery, soft, cool compared to the grass, and so much easier to cut with my reel mower. I would love to have it replaced my entire lawn (sans garden obviously).
Does anyone know?
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Common blue violet? (Or maybe another of the wild violets.) If you always cut it you wouldn’t see it bloom. Usually purple blossoms, sometimes white or white with purple. It can take over lawns, often considered a weed because it can be hard to get rid of if you don’t want it (ie if you want grass). If it is it, I have a lot of it. 
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I was going to say violet, too. The leaves are edible if they don’t have chemical treatment or Birdie pee in them. Good for salads.
Let a Little patch bloom to be sure before eating.
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Thanks y’all, they do get a little purple flowers so I think you are right – can I assume they will eventually take over the rest of the impossible to mow grass or do you think it’s worth buying some seeds?
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Any flowers? I was thinking violets too. Which can be blue or white (in my yard anyway). I think I see some creeping charley too.
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Wouldn’t expect you could find seed. You might have some luck pulling out a patch of grass and transferring a plant or two over.
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I see it too! I was going to say don’t eat the creeping charlie, but apparently it is also edible. 
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It is edible, but for some reason the damn rabbits don’t eat it. I haven’t tried it. It is a member of the mint family. And I read people have used it to make pesto.
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It does spread on its own. May take a long time, and I doubt it would completely take over? It does spread via both seed and rhizome, so transplanting might work. I feel like it does better in at least partial shade, at least at my house.
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It flourishes better in partial shade, but I’ve got some holding its own in full sun down here.
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Some sort of violet. I would need to see blooms to be more specific. You can look up varieties common to your area though.
Now I need to try of course.
Same. Mostly in part shade, but some in full sun.
This makes sense because the area with no shade has zero.
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And in older times, it was used for brewing beer in England (and perhaps elsewhere) before hops were introduced. An older name for it is alehoof.
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Good morning! Someone immediately tell me this isn’t bed bugs. Nowhere else on me and they don’t itch.
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Not bed bugs. Doesn’t look anything like the bite patterns i’ve seen
It seems unlikely they’re bites at all but of course I start the morning of a four day weekend with alarm
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Doesn’t look like bed bugs to me either!