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Plant identification

jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
can anyone id this plant?  it seems to like wet conditions. 
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  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    @jamesholt  Good morning!  It looks like Valerian - by the leaves.  I have the pink/red variety growing out at the front of my house.  Thanks to the people on this site who identified it for me earlier on in the summer, I can identify it for you!!   

    Have a good day.
    Tui
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    edited August 2020
    Sorry to disagree with you  Tuikowhai, it doesn't look like any valerian I know of. I have valerian officinalis and the leaves are very different to this. Its also not in flower now, it flowers a lot earlier in the year.

    The other plant that gets called 'valerian' is actually Centranthus Ruber, and it doesn't look like that either. 

    I wish could be more helpful and say what It actually is but I don't know as there are a lot of plants that look similar. Maybe a sort of Eupatorium? 
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Valerian grows well here in bone dry places along kerbs and bases of walls.

    Maybe a eupatorium - Joe Pye weed - tho not a weed.  Good doer in moist soil.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • BorderlineBorderline Posts: 4,700
    I think it's a Milkweed, perhaps Asclepias Syriaca or Asclepias Incarnata.
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Oh!  Ha! <3
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    It would really help to see clear  close pics of the flowers.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593

  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    hope this helps?
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    the bumblebees really like and so I don't think I'll mow it?
  • jamesholtjamesholt Posts: 593
    Swamp milkweed?
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