Someday I'm Going to Murder the Bugleherb

I was out mowing my field, trying to reclaim it from the Pale Dogwood before any birds build nests out there, when I noticed these lovely little purple flowers with reddish leaves, growing where nobody had planted them.


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After identifying them and doing a little research, I learned that I have to kill them. They are Bugleherb, a non-native invasive species.


(Link for those of you who don't know the song that gives this post its title: https://youtu.be/ug-pRQydlRs?si=JNsdnVkVirX4COCX)

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In happier news, the two or three Mayapples I found at the edge of my field a few years ago have now become a whole colony.







That's a big leaf, isn't it? (Hand for scale.)