Plant / weed ID

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• a1154 Posts: 1,108

  April 2019

  Bit of sap, not loads....
  
  
  

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• nutcutlet Posts: 27,445

  April 2019

  I still don't recognise them but they're not Helleborus corsicus. I agree, they don't look much do they

  
  
  In the sticks near Peterborough

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• Asarum Posts: 661

  April 2019

  I was thinking it looks like Dandelion/Hawkbit/Sowthistle type plants, but I think they all have white sap....but I may be wrong.  Chicory?

  East Anglia

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  April 2019

  Asarum said:

  I was thinking it looks like Dandelion/Hawkbit/Sowthistle type plants, but I think they all have white sap....

  That was my thought ...

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

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• a1154 Posts: 1,108

  June 2019

  I think it’s going to flower....can’t wait to find out what it is. The leaf looks more dandeliony now.
  
  

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• a1154 Posts: 1,108

  July 2019

  Hurray it’s in flower! I was convinced it was going to be yellow, but it’s lilac. I’d still like to know what it is! 
  
  
  
  
  

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  July 2019 edited July 2019

  see correction below!
  
  Hurray...flowers...that helps.
  
  Looks like Cichorium intybus...common name Chicory.
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=Cichorium+intybus&client=firefox-b-d&channel=crow&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwittpi1_pjjAhUmURUIHSNFAGQQ_AUIECgB&biw=1920&bih=944
  
  EDIT   wrong...it is the other look alike.
  
  Lactuca macrophylla..syn Cicerbita macrophylla...common name common blue sowthistle.
  
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=lactuca+macrophylla&client=firefox-b-d&channel=crow&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiUiPHjgJnjAhVSUBUIHcrIDXcQ_AUIECgB&biw=1920&bih=944
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactuca_macrophylla
  
  
  

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• Asarum Posts: 661

  July 2019

  Oh, lucky you. It certainly fits in with the green mark on the map of it’s distribution in Blamey & Fitter. I’ve never seen it before. 

  East Anglia

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• a1154 Posts: 1,108

  July 2019

  Ah!  thank you SS definitely correct!  
  Im lucky Asarum? Oh heck, does that mean I can’t bin it? 

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  July 2019

  What a coincidence!  I first learned of the rare  Blue Sow thistle’s existence earlier today when reading Simon Armitage’s new book Walking Home about the Pennine Way ... and now someone on the forum has them! This is a remarkable place 😊 

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

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