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Is this a weed?

IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
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Growing in a flower pot but it’s tall and thin. Can anyone ID it?

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  • gjautosgjautos Posts: 429
    Looks like an echinops to me.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Not an echinops ... but I’m not sure what it is. 🤔 

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





  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    It looks like a scabious.
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I was wondering that @pitter-patter ... but aren’t the flowers usually a sort of cushion rather than a round globe?  But the leaves could be right for scabious .. I need a coffee to switch my brain on ...

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





  • IlikeplantsIlikeplants Posts: 894
    I was wondering if it’s horseweed? 
    If it’s a flower I’ll continue watering it and see.


  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    @Dovefromabove It’s true. I just thought that the flower isn’t facing upwards, but it’s facing us as it were. 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    I'd say scabious too. I think it's just that the buds are very tight.
    Foliage looks right  :)
    The common one as opposed to a cultivated variety perhaps. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    I’ve not grown scabious for years but I think you do @Fairygirl 😊 

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





  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    Not for a long time either @Dovefromabove!
    I fancy that dark one though, but I'd need to overwinter it here.  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I have similar growing in my pond, Devils Bit Scabious, wait until the flowers open and we could have another look. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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