Good article and info! I've seen these all my life in lawns in the PNW.

Greg, thank you for reading. I'm very glad you enjoyed the article.

I may have to back-track on that. This may not be the same plant. The ones I'm thinking of don't get very high, at least not around here. The plant I'm thinking of doesn't get more than a few inches tall. At least as far as I know, they usually get mowed with the rest of the lawn. Next time I see some I'll avoid mowing them and see what happens.

Can you post a picture? It's pretty common that the plant doesn't get very tall. It depends on the growing conditions. I've noticed that the plants that get mowed will come back but they stay shorter and will flower while the plant stays short, if that makes sense.

wildflowers said:Can you post a picture? It's pretty common that the plant doesn't get very tall. It depends on the growing conditions. I've noticed that the plants that get mowed will come back but they stay shorter and will flower while the plant stays short, if that makes sense.

It does. These are the ones I'm referring to. They're only a couple inches tall.

Yes, that positively is Prunella vulgaris (Heal All) flowering there in your picture and it looks like a few leaves of something else, possibly Geranium of some kind.

I think it's the plants way of surviving. It will flower and go to seed. You may have seen dandelions do the same thing.

wildflowers said:Yes, that positively is Prunella vulgaris (Heal All) flowering there in your picture and it looks like a few leaves of something else, possibly Geranium of some kind.

I think it's the plants way of surviving. It will flower and go to seed. You may have seen dandelions do the same thing.

Here's a pic I just took. Same patch, except they were all brown except for a few. You can get a size comparison with the cedar container next to it.

I looked carefully at the original pic, you're right, the "geranium" is a Herb Robert, aka "Stinky Bobs" (my preferred choice of name.) I pull those up as soon as I see them.