This plant has sonehow managed to grow through the atrtoturf lawn of our temporary home!
Life… uh… finds a way?
This plant has sonehow managed to grow through the atrtoturf lawn of our temporary home!
Life… uh… finds a way?
That’s a mallow (common mallow). And it didn’t grow from the ground; instead, the wind carried its seeds.
Thank you, Knowledgable Internet Person. So it’s presumably not managed to put down roots? But is just managing to extract moisture and nutrients from organic litter atop the astroturf?
It’s the problem of all clean freaks: The wind carries dust, and the dust carries seeds. You can’t stop plants from spreading. Some plants also produce acids that break down the top layer of the turf. The only way to tell if their roots have already penetrated the artificial turf is to pull it up.