Thanks, gardengal! Will remember your photo uploading advice in the future. I live on hard, rocky clay, and none of the mints seem to spread easily in that hard soil, and they die out when the cold weather hits. The new mint hasn't showed up in the hard clay, either...only in my garden beds (so far). I guess there are some positives to ugly hard clay! ;) Staying on top of the Lychnis, Forget-me-nots and Linaria is a breeze, compared to what I call the 'real' weeds in my yard: Canada thistle, dandelions (though they have their pluses, too), and the new miner's lettuce that likely came from my neighbor's yard...plus unidentified other weeds in the hard clay. The Lychnis and linaria were given to me by a professional gardener, and I get envious comments from my neighbors about the Lychnis. It makes them happy, too! The Canada thistle and miner's lettuce are much more work for me. Oh, and the feverfew - I thought it was lovely, until I let it take over as a ground cover over the clay this spring. When I started pulling them out, they pulled up large clods of dirt with them, just like mound of weedy grass does. Time to go pull the easy weeds out now. Thanks for everyone's help!!!

Thanks so much for your help. I am currently converting some of my lawn to a river rock dry creek and some rain garden plants. Found this volunteer near my lavender pot and spent a good hour trying to figure it out. Do you use a special plant ID site or just know the plant well?

OK, mystery tree finally identified. Why the leaves did not have the distinctive pecan odor when crushed last year is still a mystery. But yesterday while watering plants at the cabin, I crushed some more leaves and it IS INDEED a pecan tree. I'm kind of glad that's what it is after all. So all of us that thought that up front were right! Of course, I'll probably be dead and gone before this 6' tree produces a pecan, but somebody will enjoy something besides hickory nuts (mostly what's down there). Never see squirrels, that love hickory nuts, because the daily hawks and a few copperheads have likely scared them all off. I've not gotten up the nerve to taste a hickory nut yet, but they are edible, I have read. We have bazillions of them on the ground each year. I hate stepping on them but also don't want to pick them all up, unless we can find an efficient/fast way to do that without killing my very bad back.

Thank you both so much! All the salvageable leaves from the mother plant have produced babies for me but they’re all quite small and I feel like it’s been ages since I got them going. As of now they seem happy, fingers crossed it stays that way. but I honestly wasn’t sure if leaf propagating would even work because I had never seen one of these before, not to mention the mama plant itself, poor thing, was practically melting. I didn’t have much to compare it to initially. Sounds like everyones in agreement on the ID so that’s reassuring! Thanks again!