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Please help me ID these plants...

sabeehasabeeha Posts: 344
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Hello!

Would appreciate any help in identifying these plants - Thanks!

1) A few of these are scattered around - it makes a rattling sound when shaken?



2)  These have spread in one area, undergrowth type plant..



3) These are long and dangly - don't grow upwards, but have just grown horizontally across the flower bed... maybe they need to have something they can climb up?  The pattern of leaves seems distinctive so hope someone can identify!





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  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    edited August 2018
    It looks like a mix between aquilegia (seed heads rattling), honeysuckle and vinca (?).
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    The top one and second photo leaves with the purple tinge and upright are aquilegia.  The dead flower heads are full if seeds that will self seed for next year, or you can collect in a paper bag for next spring to sprinkle where you want them. The plant on the ground I don't know so will have to pass to others to id.😁
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    Creeping one is Lonicera looking for something to climb.
  • Loraine3Loraine3 Posts: 579
    No.2 looks like Thalictrum
  • sabeehasabeeha Posts: 344
    Thank you for all the replies!

    A bit confused as there are various opinions on number 2!






  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    I too  think Thalictrum for no 2. 
    Thalictrum aquilegifolium  ( with aquilegia like foliage )
    https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Thalictrum+aquilegifolium&rlz=1C1CHFX_en-gbGB480GB480&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwif8f-WsI_dAhWMYlAKHWxwAbgQ_AUICigB&biw=1517&bih=688 
    Devon.
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576

    Is there anything on top of the stem across the bottom right corner of the second pic?  If there's a faded flower or seed head, that might help with identification.

    To me it could be aquilegia but it looks more like a thalictum (Thalictrum aquilegifolium - so no surprise that they have similar leaves)

    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    If the seedheads and the leaves in No 2 are on the same plant, then it's aquilegia ... if not it could be thalictrum ... either way, it's a keeper  :D

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





  • sabeehasabeeha Posts: 344
    Thank you again

    Here are some more photos for number 2

    The following photo shows a stem I found on it, it obviously had some flowers at some point.  The plant also has some purple stems :



    A close up of the leaves



    Regarding the seed heads, these are the leaves on the plant; some are purple tinged, others still green, but different shape totally to the leaves in number 2, so different plant.  Th leaves seem to come out in threes:




  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576

    The top picture is thalictrum seed heads and the bottom one is aquilegia seed pods, so you have both!

    I think (but can't really tell) that the longish oval leaves are just the ones that form on the flower stems of the aquilegia. The basal leaves are (usually!) more lobed. If you google aquilegia leaf you should get some images.

    I can also see some Lamium (deadnettle) in the second pic - the green and white leaves on the right-hand side, and some Alchemilla mollis in the bottom pic - the larger, dull green leaves in the bottom right corner.

    A lot of potential keepers going on there.  Both the Lamium and the Alchemilla can be thugs, but will grow in fairly dry shade where not much thrives.

    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
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