Friends, Late in the summer, I started seeing little round, ground-huuging plants, with deeply veined oblong green leaves, popping up in a garden that has mainly various kinds of perennials in it. For a while, I thought these might be something I had planted that just had a late season. Now, I'm not so sure. These things have started spreading to other parts of the bed, although so far nowhere else that I can find, and the more mature ones are getting pretty big (10-12 inch diameter in a few cases.) The big ones are hard to pull, but when I have managed to dig them out, they have a simple fibrous root system that appears to flare out and down into the soil. No sign of a bulb or rhizome. I have attached a couple of photos in hopes that someone with more horticultural savvy than I could tell me what these guys are, whether I should be trying to control them, and if so, how.. Thanks Ward Kelsey -- Please reply to twokelseys@juno.com .
