Hello! What am I? Thanks!

[danamillette]

 

[lesa]

I call them pink cornflowers... but I really don't know. They are "weeds" which I leave around. Now that I have honeybees I hate to pull anything with a flower! Someone will chime in with the correct name!

 

[patandchickens]

Looks to me like musk mallow, Malva moschata. It is an alien but long since naturalized in many parts of the northeast (and possibly elsewhere, I dunno)

Pat

 

[danamillette]

Thank you! Interesting, I haven't noticed them prior to this year!

 

[danamillette]

How do these aliens get to my back 40?

 

[boggybranch]

How do these aliens get to my back 40?

They climb over the fence.

 

[hoodat]

How do these aliens get to my back 40?

Seeds can travel a lot of ways; in a pants cuff, on your shoe, even on your car or a little birdie may have planted it for you.

 

[catjac1975]

looks like mallow-not a weed- a volunteer