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Shrub identification

jeanquilljeanquill Posts: 5
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Please can anyone identify this shrub, about 5 feet tall, found in a hedge in the countryside (UK), with what look like catkins but it was September. Persicaria wallichii has been suggested but these looked more like catkins than flowers and were drooping instead of being upright.

Any idntification is really welcome.

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Catkins are flowers but these are not catkins.

    It's a Persicaria, wallichii seems quite likely



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    PS, it has the appearance of a shrub when full grown but it's a herbaceous perennial, dies back completely in winter



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • jeanquilljeanquill Posts: 5

    Thanks for your feedback but the "flowers" are drooping not upright as I've seen in other photos of Persicaria wallichii. Unless as has been suggested, the plant has been sprayed? What do you think?

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039

    The leaves certainly suggest a Persicaria, although the species mentioned, is not one I know.

    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    dying off maybe, jean. The leaves are curled at the edges, they're not like that in their glory days.

    P. walichii isn't as bad as Japanese Knotweed but it's related and  an alien invader in the countryside. I think its common name is Himayan Knotweed



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • jeanquilljeanquill Posts: 5

    Thanks so much for your replies. I've narrowed it down to Fallopia sachalinensis, Giant knotweed and probably just after it's been sprayed.

    Thanks again.

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