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Plant identification please

josine2302josine2302 Posts: 68
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 This plant has come up in three days. I was away for the weekend and there it was. It is about 30 cms high and seems to be flowering quite soon. Anyone? 

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  • Ladybird4Ladybird4 Posts: 37,906
    edited April 2018
    Hi Josine. It looks like a member of the Ranunculaceae family and it may be easier to identify once it flowers. There are lots of knowledgeable people on the forum who may be able to pinpoint it exactly.
    Cacoethes: An irresistible urge to do something inadvisable
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited April 2018
    I think it's that horrible "wild" geum ( the proper name escapes me )
      which is all over my garden and defying all attempts to get rid of it
    Geum urbanum?

    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited April 2018
    Geum Urbanum pita 
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Think you're right Hosta. I get a little patch of it at the back boundary here, but it's so far stayed there and not crept into the garden itself. 
    It'll have yellow buttercup-py flowers if it's that josine.
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • josine2302josine2302 Posts: 68
    Thank you very much! I will let it flower for a bit (I’m a softy) and then dig it up. It looked promising, but alas, no nice surprise.. One thing I learned from this post is the abbr. PITA, I had to look that up😂
  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    let it flower at your peril. Turn your back on it of a nano second and it'll seed everywhere. 
    Devon.
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!!
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Yep, Geum urbanum  :/

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





  • josine2302josine2302 Posts: 68
    Hostafan1 said:
    let it flower at your peril. Turn your back on it of a nano second and it'll seed everywhere. 

    Hostafan I will take a quick look and have my weapons ready
  • josine2302josine2302 Posts: 68
    B3 said:
    DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!!!
    Thanks for the warning!
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