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Can anyone identify this plant/weed?
dgar3727
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Hi, would appreciate some help identifying this plant. Seems to spread quickly. Thank you
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Might be one of the hypericums, they self-seed.
Agreed with josusa.... a form of St John's Wort.
Honeysuckles look very simialr when first shooting but it appears more like Hypericum.
looks like some sort of pea to me.
Are there any in a more advanced state than that, what plants are in the area?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Other plants in the area are fuchsia, peonies, hebe, hellebores. Don't have any in a more advanced state. It seems to ground spread all over the garden rather than grow into a bush - is it considered a weed?
It looks like a climber have you got any perpetual sweet peas close by?
Looks like the hypericum in my garden. But the smaller, darker leaves look like periwinkle (vinca) to me.
can you do a bit of digging and see if they're all joined together underneath the ground?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yes, they all seem to join together underground; definitely no sweet peas nearby.
I'd look at something like Vicia sepium, Bush Vetch. Pea family pretty blue flowers, clambers through shrubs. Might be worth letting some grow to confirm. But not a hypericum or periwinkle for sure, the arrangement of the leaves in the stem is all wrong.
In the sticks near Peterborough