Thanks jaynine. I finally realized that the photos were taken too early in the day, and went back for more info. It appears that the petals were just unfolding this morning, and that gave them an overlapping appearance. I must have torn one, making it seem that there were 10, instead of 5. The photo below, plus non-scarious bracts, glandular hairs on sepals, 10 stamens with 5 styles, etc. suggest this plant is Cerastium brachypodum (Short-stalked Chickweed - see afternoon photo). Sorry for the midleading information earlier.

I believe it's Diodia virginiana, Virginia buttonweed. If it is a Diodia, then your tiny pink flower would have to be ... maybe the base of a seed capsule whose top has fallen off? And your unopened flower buds would be less mature seed capsules. (It's trying to take over my front lawn, but I haven't studied its anatomy in detail.) In any case, it seems unlikely there would be unopened buds and nearly-mature seed capsules cheek-by-jowl on the same part of the stem. You could go back and dissect those parts of the plant, to see what's inside. Nice photos here: http://www.cas.vanderbilt.edu/bioimages/species/divi3.htm Also here, but unfortunately not of the seed capsule: www.florabymax.net/ FLORAbyMAX/ Family-pdfs/ FLORA-P-Z/ Rubiaceae%20(Madder%20Family).pdf

No need to feel like a dork. Even the weed appreciates a little TLC once in a while! If you can grow a jasmine there is complete hope! Here is the foliage of what I think is your plant A little further away with blossom beginning middle left of center against the horrible backdrop of phlox,spent geranium, crocosmia, a lone foxglove, and sweet woodruff run amok. Not a good photo, sorry. The little pink blooms go on to produce fluffy white tufts of seeds that float away to other portions of the garden if left unpulled, as I recall. The weed is the one with maroonish stem beginning at the bottom of the photo. And another closer up of fresher foliage. Nice of me to include it inside the ribbed cage for the asters wasn't it? Even weeds need support:)

I transplanted 6 more to the same place today. Like the first one I transplanted, each had one open blossom plus several buds. Unlike the first one, 4 of those 6 had the open blossom completely wilt in a couple hours post transplant. No clue what I did wrong (or if it is just dumb luck). I really felt like I was doing a better job today (more dirt and roots intact). These 6 still might recover, in which case assuming perennial, I hardly need any from seed. I found a few more as they grow up from under various dense plants. So they tolerate severe competition for sun, water and nutrients. I'll have to see whether they tolerate open air around them, a few hours per day of full sun and otherwise less total shade. They're supposed to prefer sun and just tolerate shade. I'm curious about the seeds (especially now from the white ones), so I'll try that anyway. But if the transplanting isn't a total failure, finding them where they already self sowed to build the two clumps I want seems to be more effective. The short one of the first four grew 6 inches in a few days after transplant (but still has just buds, no blossoms). The one transplanted with one blossom and 4 buds quickly went to 5 blossoms. The two transplanted with many buds each had several of those buds open to white blossoms. So the first four continue doing absurdly well post transplant. The next 6, quite bad after just a few hours (no the first four definitely didn't have a bad first few hours). I can see I'm risking having them pop up everywhere. But they do seem both easy to pull where they are a weed, and a very nice looking flower when you put several in an intentional looking clump. I'd like a few more white. Maybe some from seed will be white. But it really looks like only one volunteer was white and it propagated underground to b the two I now have. I wonder how long that takes and if I can competently split them when it happens. Online it said the bottom leaves are evergreen (remain over the winter). Maybe somewhere milder, not here. (6a, borderline 6b by zip code, but 5b by the actual Feb early AM temperatures we see, below -10F several nights each Feb). IIUC, winter sowing is just a tiny plastic greenhouse to get an earlier start in the spring. Any opinion on covering existing plants in the fall with a hood of some clear plastic half container with holes? If the bottom leaves would be evergreen in a milder climate, they would at least last longer and I would think feed the underground propagation, since flowering would be over. My LOTV dies off above ground in late summer regardless of weather, long before it gets cold, so I assume it is on a biological clock set for a shorter growing season causing it to start early and end earlier. But the Campanula may be more responsive to actual temperature.