Small white flowering plant

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• Buttercupdays Posts: 4,546

  November 2020

  It is a large plant masquerading as a small one!
  

  Common Hogweed, Hieracleum spondinium, which can grow to over 5ft if well nourished. Yours probably gets cut down regularly.  It makes quite a nice, stately umbellifer if given its head but it does seed around rather, and the the roots on a full grown one are quite a challenge to get out!

  You have been warned

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• Silver surfer Posts: 4,719

  November 2020

  Agree with @Buttercupdays....Heracleum sphondylium....common hogweed
  
  https://www.google.com/search?q=heracleum+sphondylium&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiCpM75s5jtAhU2REEAHTUvCvkQ_AUoAXoECA0QAw&biw=1280&bih=579
  

  Perthshire. SCOTLAND .

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• debbie-1U7xeJf Posts: 2

  November 2020

  Great. Thanks!

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• Papi Jo Posts: 4,254

  November 2020

  Agree with Heracleum sphondylium....common hogweed ID.

  Not to be confused with Giant hogweed (Heracleum mantegazzianum), an invasive and dangerous species. I had one specimen of the latter, recommended by a local nursery, years ago and got severe burns from it. See this advice on the RHS site.
  

  
  
  

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