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Weed identification help please

KatetrimmingsKatetrimmings Posts: 2
in Problem solving
Can anyone help identify this please. 2nd year in my garden and suddenly it’s everywhere. Need to know if it is safe for tortoises to eat!

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    My guess would be some sort of willowberb
    See what others think

    Billericay - Essex

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  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    White campion springs to mind for me ... (Silene latifolia)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I like to see a plant growing, they never look right after that


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,384
    Agree, an in-situ photo would help.  Could they be the basal leaves of one of the weedy types of evening primrose?
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • KatetrimmingsKatetrimmings Posts: 2
    Thanks people. I’ve checked out pictures of the suggested plants and it definitely is not any of those. I will take another picture tomorrow to show in situ.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited March 2018
    Forget-me-nots?

  • Dave HumbyDave Humby Posts: 1,145
    Plantain?
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    I think it is a willowherb, one of the small ones.
    East Anglia
  • NanniemoNanniemo Posts: 226
    Calendula?
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