Plant People: What is This?

Henbit? Whatever, it's a weed. My yard is lousy with it!

Eat it!

According to the tutorial below, henbit has a red stem, which OP's pic doesn't seem to show.

It's a fast read: Ground Ivy, Dead Nettle, Henbit. Three (easily mixed up) early spring plants.

Thanks all!

So ground ivy it is. Gather it and cook it like spinach or broth.

It's in the mint family

OP Take the picture to your local garden center. You know, the one with the swarthy guys lifting and toting mulch bags all day.

Someone there will know. For added fun, start by asking the hot and swarthy guys.

Where do you dwell, OP? Knowing the area/region often helps with identification.

Westchester County

We called it cow weed growing up

It's in my yard as well. Dies back in winter and comes back in spring

Years ago I bought variegated pink catmint. When it returned the following year, the leaves weren't variegated, but that happens a lot. E.g., I have a pink marshmallow Veronica that came back just pink the following year - no white.

But now that I see this, I think what I have is pink deadnettle. Probably the catmint died and some pink deadnettle happened to grow there and I thought it was the catmint.

Florida Betony

https://www.google.com/search?q=florida+betony&newwindow=1&rlz=1CAIEIT_enUS748US748&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjk_9eP6unhAhVMUt8KHSzTDTMQ7AkoAXoECAsQCw&biw=1536&bih=737

Download PictureThis or PlantSnap. Take a pic and it comes up with the top choices that it might be, along with pics.

But it's definitely not a thyme of any sort...they have rounded leaves, not scalloped as in the picture.

The Poisonous Plant. Do not touch.

Creeping Charlie aka ground ivy. Perennial weed, rampant spreader. Tolerates shade better than bluegrass. Like all mints, loves damp soil. One of the top three most common lawn weeds (dandelion, creeping charlie, crabgrass).

R8 We have it here too in Australia.

R16 Former Master Gardener, I really want to plant creeping thyme on this “rockery,” where these weeds are located. Is it hard to grow from seed by sowing directly on soil? Everything I’ve seen on YouTube have people starting it indoors, I don’t have time for that!

I just ordered a couple flats of 4" Wooly Thyme to fill in some bare patches in my garden. Some of it died back over the wet winter here in northern Calif.

PS OP: you should have said you don't have thyme for that!

I never had any luck with thyme. It always died back over winter and didn’t come back. You might try buying thyme from an online nursery or a garden center. I’ve never seen it in big box stores,

Tangentially related:

I tried this. Avoid at all costs.