I am sure they will survive to a certain extent, but they seem to be dwindling in numbers. The very back of the lawn I can mow high, since it is by a line of pines and does not look too bad. There are many patches of them there. (I am guessing 50 or more.) Right now in the rest of the lawn, it looks like two patches. Or perhaps too patches just managed to blossom enough to be noticed. Besides all that, I think they would look nice in the garden. I just thought I would not move them if it would just finish them off.

Thanks Rhizo, Phil all ready gave me an ID on it, but you're absolutely right on your ID, so since I forgot to take the pix off of my other plants page (it's on nectar plants) I credited you on the page with the ID too: http://butterflies.heuristron.net/plants/whiteball.html I've spent more time trying to get the site to display properly cross-platform than I have on content lately (grumble). There are several other plants I'm not sure of on my plant pages; care to have a go at those too? Thanks :) Here is a link that might be useful: http://butterflies.heuristron.net/plants/whiteball.html

Thanks for the ID, Tyrlych! Both "weeds" are nice looking plants. I had no idea that the Gibasis is a plant normally cultivated.

I never had a lawn at my last house, but do now. I'm researching the best crocus to plant with the most success in the grass. I found this really good link https://oldhousegardens.com/LawnCrocus at Old House Gardens, and they say gardeners claim to have the best luck with Crocus tommasinianus Does anyone know which of the Crocus Tommasinianus are the most purple (like leaning to blue purples not the reddish purples) or nice lavender that's not in the pink range? I see Crocus tommasinianus names like "Whitewell Purple"," Barr's Purple", "Ruby Giant" (ironically described as being neither "giant" nor "ruby". Photos on google show such a variance in color for the same crocus names that I'm confused...I don't trust the color enhanced photos used to sell plants. Oh and I love the photos shared on this post, super inspiring! I learned tons of new stuff, and loved the story about Bulberella and her new last name!