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Help with identification please
Gwennie
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June 2018
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This is very bushy, about 3ft tall, very rough
leaves, dandelion like flowers. It has masses of buds!
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Fire
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edited June 2018
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nutcutlet
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the photo is rather too close to see the shape of the thing
Could be Bristly Ox-tongue, Helminthotheca echioides
In the sticks near Peterborough
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Gwennie
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Dovefromabove
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I was just going to say Bristly Ox-tongue
http://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/Flowers/O/Oxtongue(Bristly)/Oxtongue(Bristly).htm
but I see Nut has beaten me to it. What a splendid specimen
Did you get some topsoil for that raised bed? Hope you didn't pay a lot for it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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Gwennie
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June 2018
Thankyou very much. It was amongst some teasel plants I got from someone. Raised bed was already here when we moved in. Thanks for your help
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Could be Bristly Ox-tongue, Helminthotheca echioides
In the sticks near Peterborough
http://wildflowerfinder.org.uk/Flowers/O/Oxtongue(Bristly)/Oxtongue(Bristly).htm
but I see Nut has beaten me to it. What a splendid specimen
Did you get some topsoil for that raised bed? Hope you didn't pay a lot for it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.