Looks like mint to me

Junegreen, I wondered about mint ... have you seen any with ends like that? I did a rub test, no smell. I've never grown mint, so don't know much about it.

Thanks for replying!

ETA: I also wondered about pigweed, but haven't seen an exact match (googling pictures).

If there is no smell, I would say it is not a mint, don't know anything about pigweed,. Good luck!

I Googled mint images, it brought up a gazillion images. While many had that leaf texture, not one had that leaf shape. And I agree with junegreen, no smell, not mint. Then I Googled pigweed images. Again, many pictures, many different leaf textures and shapes. One (Prostrate Pigweed) has that inverted leaf shown here, but the texture looks quite different to me. But it also looks pretty sad, where your plants look very healthy. Maybe that's the difference?

Rusty

I tried to load the photo here, but it won't work for me. Apparently there are many different prostrate pigweeds, too.

Thanks, Rusty! I finally found what looks like an exact match (pigweed) last night, but did I save the page? Of course not! I'll try to find it again today.

Interesting pigweed reading. It gets two distinct reactions:

1. Oh, my! If you find it, you have found an edible treasure! Glorious plant, so good for you. Join hands with your friends, and dance around this super healthy and magical gift. Here are some salad recipes (links to Pinterest). Wonderful with vinaigrette!

Or

2. OMG RUN BURN DOWN THE FIELDS ... CALL IN THE NATIONAL GUARD ... THIS MONSTER DESTROYS CROPS ... MUST BE STOPPED!!! (There's some controversy regarding pigweed, Monsanto, Round-Up, and another now-banned chemical farmers say is the only effective poison for it.)

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I don't eat weeds, unless someone knows of one that tastes like Twinkies, so I'll probably pull it up. I've already introduced Trumpet Vine into my area, I don't want to release another jerk of a plant, no matter how well it pairs with Wish-Bone salad dressing.

Nice detective work - though not exactly clear how you made the leap to pigweed. Puzzling how so many seedlings of an unfamiliar plant show up in a spot like that; especially when they don't appear to have airborne seeds like dandelion. Know they likely came in with soil/mulch or as a gift of the birds, but there is some fun in these illusions of garden magic.

I'm still at the guessing stage, but did find a pic that looked very similar. Maybe I'll let it grow a bit, and see if it gets a flower(s) ... it's growing very quickly. Nothing has been in that pot for a couple of years. You're probably right about birds leaving me gifts. :D

On another note, I've had more strange things pop up this year, all over, than any year I can ever remember.

Pigweed for sure - a common weed here. If you let it grow too long it develops a long tough taproot. Best pulled before it goes to seed. It's in the amaranth family, so maybe it was a gift from a bird or rodent.

Thanks, Carol ... ok, you've convinced me to pull it. And I was just out there looking around--I think I see some popping up in a bed nearby. Ugh!

Look up wild purslane, which produces insignificant blooms, unlike the pretty, colorful ones available at stores. I have edited my posting to say I do agree it is pigweed but at first I thought of the wild purslane. The rains have brought up both of them en masse.

Thanks, bossy ... yes, definitely not that, I have plenty to compare it to. :D I swear, I think I have every single species of weed known to man this year! I don't know what's going on!

whatever it is, i have a lot of it and it def grows like a weed

Was the one you were looking at Amaranthus alba, tumble pigweed? I saw that yesterday and while some of the images looked close to your plant , the other images not so much. Amaranth was the first thing that came to my mind... lotsa seeds.

Annie, no, I think it was viridis .... this pic came up. So similar, but like you said, other images didn't match, so not positive. The leaves seem more narrow than mine. I had no idea there were so many varieties of this plant!

Great link, bostedo, thank you! That's definitely it. My brain wasn't working yesterday. :D