Creeping crosswort!

Avigorous low-spreading perennial with tiny bright-pink pompom flowers, which tolerates all types of soils and resists rabbits, sounds like the gardener’s dream. It certainly brightened up the borders and kept down the weeds in a garden near Bristol, until the owners were shocked to get a knock on the door from a local drug-gang, who demanded they hand over the cannabis. There was none, but investigation found that a smell much like that of the drug was being given off by the pinky blossoming groundcover, which turned out to be Phuopsis stylosa, also known as creeping crosswort. Nature has plenty of tricks like this. Iris foetidissima smells of roast beef and Berlandiera lyrata smells of chocolate. Not many people grow this kind of crosswort, which is just as well if it leads to cross-purposes.