The tutor identifies a familiar plant from the yard.

I didn’t know it was herb-robert, but I’ve worked among it for years. In the yard, it grows along fences or buildings, always the shady side.

Herb-robert is attractive, with fern-like leaves. It’s an outward-growing, open plant. Its stem can be red, as can its leaves. Both are hairy all around.

Herb-robert’s flowers are five-petaled, pink, and often in forks of two. Telling is the fruit, which develops a spike.

I’ll be sharing more yard finds:)

Source:

Pojar, Jim and Andy MacKinnon. Plants of Coastal British Columbia. Vancouver:
  BC Ministry of Forests and Lone Pine Publishing, 1994.

Jack of Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC.