Nuisance weed

peteS

Can anyone identify this nuisance weed. It grows in all the wall crevices, can get quite long and scraggly and is a haven for slugs and snails. It has tiny purplish flowers with a yellow middle. Cheers.

Ceres

It's ivy-leaved toadflax.

Dovefromabove

Gorgeous little plant ... love it on old walls ... it's not attracting the slugs and snails ... they're living in the wall and will do that whether or not the toadflax is there. 
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/wildflowers/ivy-leaved-toadflax

peteS

Thanks for that @Ceres...just looked it up and apparently the leaves are edible, tasting a bit like watercress. Maybe a salad beckons.

micearguers

One of the most loved plants here! You can cut it back to suit your needs.

peteS

Thanks for the comments, I think I will look at it in a different light from now on.

Dovefromabove

😊 

TheGreenMan

Awwwww. The flat that we recently moved out of had tons of this on the walls of the yard. 

I loved it. It made the walls part of my pot garden. 

Loxley

I like it too. You can quite easily tug it out if it gets a bit too much.

bertrand-mabel

Used this to show my students the stomata underneath the leaves as they are so easily seen under a microscope.

In our garden and as others have said easy to pull back and controlled.

peteS

Has anyone actually ate some.