What is this?

[thefrug]

I'm sorry to say that I don't have a good book on identifying plants. This one is growing in huge clumps in my front yard!
Anyone know what this is?

[stinkbug]

Don't know the official name.....it's some kind of weed though. It grows in all the fields and pastures around here.

[Trentt]

If it's the stuff that puts out runners that root into the ground, it's what we call Creeping Charlie. It's hard to get rid of it, though easy to pull up.

[Missy]

It's a weed here too. I can't think of the name... let me try to find it.

[Missy]

If you google ground ivy or creeping charlie it comes up.

[dcompton]

I'm so bored at work that I did google it. One of the pictures is really nice - I may use it for a computer background when I get tired of my lizard!

Well, someone has to appreciate the unloved.

[Grainlady]

That's a weed called henbit -

http://www.weedalert.com/weed_pages/wa_henbit.htm

http://www.aragriculture.org/horticu..._id/henbit.htm

[Janbee]

I did not know what it was called but I know the bees like it alot.

[Debbie-cat]

The bees around here love it as well! Good to know what it is now though. Thanks!

[pop goes the weasel]

that figures. The only thing I can't kill is a weed growing in my naked flower bed

[joyofsix]

I love all the names for it. We just call it ground ivy.

Creeping charlie, field balm, cats-foot, and gill-over-the-hill.
Poetic names for a weed.

[Persimmon Lace]

It's henbit and my chickens love it!

Adding! It's also edible! http://oklavore.com/2009/03/05/henbit/

[Natalie]

I'm so bored at work that I did google it. One of the pictures is really nice - I may use it for a computer background when I get tired of my lizard!

Well, someone has to appreciate the unloved.

This thread got me googling flower pictures, and I found a beautiful close up picture of a purple morning glory flower, and I put that up on my desktop.

I have a little toy stuffed lizard on the passenger seat beside me as I drive around every day. His name is Hyatt (okay, so I like the sound). He's my lucky lizard. Seems like whenever I have gotten stuck in a snowbank, or slid off the road, someone's come by to help me. So I've still had to call AAA a few times, but he's generally been a lucky lizard.

[craftypam]

Looks like lamium to me. I have it in my backyard and it is a ground cover.

I have a book that identifies plants its called ahs great plant guide. It identifies over 2000 plants

[momof42003]

My six year old calls it her "honey" flowers... She thinks the sweet juices out of the flower are honey left by the bees.... How do you explain that is not what it is to a six year old who is already set in her ways about her flowers?? It is a weed here too. Sorry this is all that will grow. Hopefully your luck will change.