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Weed or not

Jason-3Jason-3 Posts: 391
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Hi I have quite a few unknown plants/weed pop up in a semi shaded border. The border has all sorts of annuals and bi annual scattered in the soil over the past few years. But I don't recognise this plant. When it initially started growing I thought it was a nettle, however it definitely isn't that. It also thought initially of annual verbana or even stock as they have been in that border. I'm not certain though. A few pics below 




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  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    It's Stachys  sylvatica or Hedge Woundwort. Pretty purple flowers but the whole plant has a nasty smell in my opinion. 
    East Anglia
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Agree, smells awful.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    looks like some sort of lamium (dead nettle) possibly
    My neighbours one scrambles around my garden....

    Billericay - Essex

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    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • Jason-3Jason-3 Posts: 391
    Okay they need to get dug up then. Thank you
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