Oh My!!!! This is my lucky day...doing miscellaneous weeding while checking for spts to plant more asclepias and this is what I spy.....
Fortunately, I've weeded and kept clean this area, and it's flowering, or I would undoubtedly have pulled it, not knowing what it was....a Johnny-Jump-Up! I love these and pansies and have never grown either due to gophers, rabbits, etc. I'm sure that if it reseeds, the deer will most likely find them, but we shall see. I think I may fill troughs with them...and with the pansies. I have an idea for standing troughs that I saw many years ago that I think maybe we should make for the farmers' market along with the other things.....
There are so many things unknown to me that keep popping up here, this week it was hypericum, the common St. John's Wort...and I loved it and wanted to propagate more, but sadly, it's too invasive and poisonous to livestock...always good to check the ID forum first....
