I was pretty sure it was in the carnation family - probably some seed blew in! Looks pretty next to your numbers!
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Thank you! Yes, I’ve been weeding it out for years and finally just let it go this year - I like it.
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It looks very pretty in that garden bed! Keep it. 
I just got some that looks like this one. The lady I got it from called it wild geranium. Very pretty pink/purple flowers. Low growing.
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This is a crainsbill geranium from my garden from that wild geranium family. I also have the native wild geranium earlier in the season that spreads VERY easily and seeds itself.
Yes, mine looks like this the wild geranium and not the one that @DeeCee36 posted.
Asiatic lilies in the garden today. Yellow flowers in a mostly purple bed!
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Picked up a dwarf Royal Poinciana tree on sale at my favorite nursery for 60% off! Now to figure out where to plant it. 
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Gorgeous trees! What a deal.
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Checked one of my raised beds this morning to find the entire row of beet plants dead…
. They were planted as seeds and came up a few weeks ago. We just thinned them out last week. I have no idea what happened? The other things in that bed all look fine.
Trampled? Or like shriveled up? What type of plants? Did you thin by pulling them out or did you snip them with scissors to not disturb the root system of the ones you wanted to survive?
So sorry!
Shriveled and brown. Beetroot seedlings. Pinched/pulled to thin out - maybe that was the problem.
Our horticulturalist at our community garden taught us to thin those tender plants by just taking scissors and snipping at the soil - should kill off the plant but doesn’t disturb the roots of the keepers!
Along these same lines, I saw that my Armenian cucumbers have wilted and are looking pretty miserable… probably beyond any salvaging. 
No, they are not dried out. The other cukes are doing very well. No idea what did them in… one theory is the recent super cold weather with almost hail like rain. Sad.
With gardening almost always, “you win some, you lose some “!
A ‘wild’ tomato plant growing inside a potted citrus tree on my deck; the plant throws off two or three ripe tomatoes every ten days or so, and they are delicious 
I also have a wild fig tree which produces abundant wild figs each year; sadly, they are inedible
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We call those “volunteer” plants - I have 3 or 4 of them - can never pull them out - they will too much to LIVE!!! 
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One variety of Costco tomatoes is great at producing volunteers! If I leave such tomato on the counter for too long, seedlings will sprout out of it! 
I finally have green fruit on my tomato plants. And a giant Japanese cuke! The Armenian cukes perked up a bit. Maybe there is hope for them.
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My H brought home a fig tree—-sigh. Can you tell we’ve done this before without much luck. We never manage to get them to survive. I have a friend with a garden nursery (one of those places that’s warm with special plastic covering built for plantings). She says I can put the fig tree there for the winter. I usually bring it into the house.
So you keep it in the pot and never intend to actually plant, right? If all else fails you can cook with the fig leaves!