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Identify Plant
maggiemew1
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Hello everyone,I picked this plant up from the roadside . Can anyone identify this please?
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Do you mean you dug it up from beside the road to plant in your garden?
The flowers are not open yet but it looks like Valeriana officinalis
https://www.google.com/search?q=Valeriana+officinalis,&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj4pcjKkKTqAhWkolwKHYQyAAcQ_AUoAXoECBUQAw&biw=1920&bih=938
Yes I pulled it from soft road margin. I love it!
Many of us have wildflowers in our garden, and could possibly supply you with seed, via the Seed Swap.
I am horrified...you do realise that is illegal?
I loved this plant and used to see it in verges every year we came to Scotland on holiday.
I wanted one.
But rather than illegally digging it up I found a nursery that sold them and bought one.
Presently RHS list 45 nurseries who sell it ...many are mail order...see below
"Legislation under the Wildlife and Countryside Act (1981) makes it illegal “to uproot any wild plant without permission from the landowner or occupier” in Britain. The term 'uproot' is defined as “to dig up or otherwise remove the plant from the land on which it is growing”.
List of nurseries who sell it.
https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/Nurseries-Search-Result?query=18738
This is the base legislation:
Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act, 1981, which covers Britain, it is illegal to uproot any wild plant without permission from the landowner or occupier. Uproot is defined as to dig up or otherwise remove the plant from the land on which it is growing, whether or not it actually has roots; and, for the purposes of the legislation, the term plant includes algae, lichens and fungi as well the true plants mosses, liverworts and vascular plants. Similar general protection is given to all plants in Northern Ireland, under the Wildlife (Northern Ireland) Order, 1985.