This is completely a guess. First off I thought sprouted seed but now I think not. I think you will have to take a picture in a few weeks when the leaves have matured more. My second thought was oxeye daisy but I'm not sure on that either. Hmmm

Goldenrod ?

Can anyone identify this ground cover my wife and I found in N. Alabama? It's covering a sloped shaded slope well and not growing up trees.

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Hydrophyllum canadense is what I think. Next time you should start your own thread instead of adding on to another person's post.

I'm sorry, I couldn't figure out how to get to the last page. Thank you!

http://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=HYCA3

Don't worry about the confusion. Above is a link to the plant I mentioned.

Thank you so much....that's it!

My post was hijacked so hope it will get pushed to the top and maybe someone can id the foliage.

Is it in your garden or woodland?

gut feeling is some Aster or perhaps Solidago.

any chance you could check what kind of rhizomes are spreading around the leaves?

but definetely perennial and herbacious

Feel the leaves to see if they are rough.

It is in my garden. Leaves are smooth. I have goldenrod on the edges of my yard which is almost an acre but none that i looked at was a huge clump like this is.

The picture dosent really show but it covers a complete hillside slope...I would guess 5 acres or more. We have been looking for something and happened upon this just Jeep riding. We don't want a plant that will grow up the trees and is a fast grower, this one seems to fit the bill. Now to figure out how to transplant it.

Thank you guys so much for the help. I'm new to message boards and I truly apologize if I jumped in in front of others, it was not intentional.

Maylingsmom, are there any old flower stalks left in the area? If not, I'd keep an eye on it, and post when you see evidence of flowers or flower stalks pushing out. It may well be an aster of some type, though in the US the native genus is now Eurybia.

No old flower stalks and I will certainly update when it does something else. Right now the leaves are very slowly getting bigger and some more are coming up.

Finally an update. Looks like a little aster. What do you think?

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Going by the foliage I'm not convinced that flower goes with the foliage from your first post. Have you burrowed down to make sure it is actually coming from the same type of plant?

Yes, the foliage from the flower is the same as the original post.

white flower looks like a white stokesia. But the plant looks like the only one in all that mass of a-shade-lighter green.

I am another one who questions whether the flower goes with the original foliage since it's longer and narrower. No scale, so it's difficult to tell, but Stokesia are relatively large - perhaps 2 1/2" across while this looks more to me like one of the garden (rather than wild) asters which are smaller.

I third that on it not being connected to the original basal foliage. Furthermore Stokesia flowers do not look like what is shown, nor does the foliage. A chance white flowered seedling popped up in my garden this year. Compare the flower structure as well as the leaves.

So that's 4 of us now doubting the leaf/flower connection, Maylingsmom. Maybe you could have another very close look at where exactly that flower is growing from.

I'm not sure that these pictures are any better. My husband dug up a flowering plant and with it came 2 different sizes of just the foliage that I see in the clump. He said they were tangled together. The flower part is about 8" tall.

It seems the original low-growing leaves haven't grown much? Are they connected or are they individuals?

My husband said when he dug them they were tangled all together. I also saw some that are growing and putting up what looks like will be a flower like on the pics I posted.

It would great if we can see the flower. The dug up photo seems to show runners.

There are also daisies and other small plants that have runners, and grow into dense mats. The first two photos do show scale, because there are pine needles in both shots.

marinaka SoCal I posted a picture of a flower earlier several comments above yours. I really think this is some type of little daisy or what was previously called aster. I seem to remember planting something about 2 years ago that was labeled annual aster and died fairly quickly but not sure that it would suddenly reappear 2 years later.