What is this Southern California weed?

RosemaryDW

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There are flowers in bloom this year that I haven't seen for a long time. This one isn't at all familiar, though.

It has a pretty pink flower. I found it growing in a somewhat sheltered spot next to wild geraniums and bristly ox tongue.

It's not scarlet pimpernel, although the leaves look a bit similar.

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I'm not very familiar with chickweeds; they don't seem to be common here. Chickweeds have a daisy like flower, I think? This one does not, it's a soft little pink blossom that doesn't seem to open up very much. The leaves do look similar. Is there a chickweed with pink blossoms?
 

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ImageUploadedByTortoise Forum1490141070.075574.jpgmine looks like this, or like this: ImageUploadedByTortoise Forum1490141106.911169.jpg and flowers are tiny daisylike, white or very pale pinkImageUploadedByTortoise Forum1490141152.029854.jpg it grows very low to the groundImageUploadedByTortoise Forum1490141204.929319.jpg
 

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One of the flowers opened up and it is the most delicate little five-petaled thing. The leaves have a very strong taste, somewhat metallic.

A mud nama, perhaps. There are some in a preserve near our house.

I guess it will remain a mystery. :)

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Anagallis sp.

o-o-o-o I love that. I have a bunch of it all over in my horse pasture. The horses didn't eat it, but it's so pretty! Mine had orange flowers.
 

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