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Wildflower ID

gilla.walmsleygilla.walmsley Posts: 339
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Just one randomly growing in my wild patch next to my ox eye daisies. It's beautiful! Can't really seem to find it in any of my books, but then I'm not very good at ID'ing... the leaves are thin and spikey

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  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    Maybebe a larkspur

    Billericay - Essex

    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    the leaves are wrong for larkspur, I think it's a Campanula, possibly persicifolia looking at the leaves. 


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    The purple flower looks like a Campanula. Could be Persicifolia.
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    It’s a Campanula, latiloba?
    East Anglia
  • gilla.walmsleygilla.walmsley Posts: 339
    edited June 2018
    All the flowers have six fused petals, in case that makes a difference. I think it looks most likely to be latiloba, just going by Google pics! I haven't sewed any seeds, amazing that it's just appeared on its own!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2018
    My Campanula persicifolia self seed themselves all over my garden ... they're popping up all over the place, even in the veg patch ... blue ones and white ones  :) ... not a problem as they're easily weeded out.

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





  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    You could indeed all make a fortune with your 'weeds'.
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