Is this a weed?

Splandy

Is it a weed or just a ground cover plant? Thanks.

Splandy

Oops, hang on, picture isn't visible!

Splandy

Dovefromabove

That looks like Gallium odoratum aka Sweet Woodruff , an essential ingredient of the German spring punch called Maibowle and jellies and other sweet dishes.

Good in dry shade ... can spread a bit but is easily controlled
 

Splandy

Thank you. And are the smaller, darker green plants to the right of the photo just new shoots of this plant?

Dovefromabove

Can’t see them very clearly but yes, I think so. 

Itll have pretty little white flowers later on. 

DampGardenMan

Dovefromabove said:

Good in dry shade ... can spread a bit but is easily controlled
 

Not on heavy clay it can't! At least we never managed it

Papi Jo

Planted some in my garden http://www.rezeau.org/wp-garden/en/galium-odoratum-4/

It's beginning to spread. And yes, the smaller green small ones on the right in your photo are new shoots. Watch them out!

Dovefromabove

MIL grows it on lovely black fenland peaty loam and as I said, it spreads but not uncontrollably. 

We have it under a large ash tree on freedraining gritty loam it’s been there 4/5 years and while the clump is spreading gently I’ve not had to weed any out yet. 

fidgetbones

I have cleavers as a weed and it looks like that. It grows rapidly and smothers plants if I don't get it out fast enough.

Mike Allen

Botanically it's a plant.  To most gardeners it's a pest, a weed.  Get rid of it.