Wild Gentian? Can anyone confirm please?

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• carol.alderton Posts: 18

  August 2020

  It is growing on the roadside near my home. Will be mowed down when they cut the grass so can I take a plant  up and put in my garden to save it? 

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• Asarum Posts: 661

  August 2020

  It’s difficult to tell from your photos, but I think it would be unlawful to dig it up. I’m sure someone with more knowledge on this will be along soon. 

  East Anglia

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  August 2020 edited August 2020

  Pics far from clear.
  Not Gentiana sp.
  Maybe Echium vulgaris.
  
  https://www.plantlife.org.uk/uk/discover-wild-plants-nature/picking-wildflowers-and-the-law
  

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  August 2020

  Another vote here for Echium vulgare ... flowers look sort of tubular with longish stamens, whereas gentians have five distinct petals with shorter stamens. 

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

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• carol.alderton Posts: 18

  August 2020

  Thank you yes it is Echium Vulgare thank you. It’s such a vivid blue and I hadn’t seen any like it anywhere!! 

  I will hopefully get some seeds from it then!!!

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