Is this a weed or a flower?

[camille1585]

Originally Posted by JScott

That is the closest anybody else has come up with, but my issue with that is that the plant you mentioned seems to have a taller, more upright growth habit. In that photo where I was holding back the leaves so that you could see the base of the plant, what I was trying to show was that all the leaves emerge from a single point just below the surface of the soil, kind of like how a strawberry plant grows, but with a longer petiole, and this creates an even, rounded mound. Although the leaves are very similar, and the yellow flowers look they could easily belong on that plant in my garden.

I see what you mean, which is also why I was questioning the ID! The Potentillas I have seen in Europe all have creeping growths, and nothing like yours. I'd love to figure out what it is though, I'm a huge plant nerd.

Originally Posted by JScott

It's funny to me how many international people know that phrase "everything is bigger in Texas". Even people who have never left Europe or South America or wherever else they may live, and have never even been to Texas, they know that saying Some people, that's the ONLY thing they know about Texas hahaha. Funny how these things can get around the world the way they do.

There is no way for you to know, but I'm born and raised in the US. I have now lived longer in Europe than in the US, so I guess I'm more 'international' now and don't really belong to any of the 3 countries I've lived in. But yeah, generally the word 'Texas' seems to be associated with 'big'!

[JScott]

Originally Posted by camille1585

There is no way for you to know, but I'm born and raised in the US. I have now lived longer in Europe than in the US, so I guess I'm more 'international' now and don't really belong to any of the 3 countries I've lived in. But yeah, generally the word 'Texas' seems to be associated with 'big'!

It's also funny, that I travel to Brazil quite a lot. When I first started going there, I was living in Oklahoma, and people would ask me where I'm from, and I would say Oklahoma, and they would just stare at me with blank eyes.

Now when I go and people ask me where I'm from and I say, "Texas", they ALL know Texas hahaha. They know the Dallas Cowboys, they know our frontier tradition as part of the "wild west" and cattle rustlers and shootouts in saloons, and everything. On a few occasions, I have actually been asked, "It is true that you guys still ride horses instead of cars?" and they were not joking! They were serious hahahahahah. So yeah, people all over the world know Texas, and that everything is bigger here lol.

[JScott]

Well, Camille, you're the winner! A friend of mine has an app where you submit a picture of a plant and it will tell you what it is, and she used this app to determine that my plant is called creeping cinquefoil.

I'm still not convinced that it looks exactly the same, but it sure does look close enough for me to believe the app is correct. It looks like it gets nice little yellow flowers on it later in the year, so that's exciting! Thanks for all your help, and Camille, I owe you a chicken dinner

[Fuerte Rav]

Good ID Camille! Possibly Potentilla Reptans? Although not native to America I think it's got to most places

[JScott]

Let's all give it up for Camille and Fuerte! Thanks guys! Never could have done it without you.