@fizzyliz the maculatum is usually green leaves but they can have blotches whereas the italicum is varieagted.
You just need to pull the leaves off as soon as you see them but if they are in an area that you can dig then give it a go.
But you will need to keep on being vigilant.
@BobTheGardener had identified it as the maculatum 👍 yes got a few bits out earlier out of interest... it’s was easier there as they were tiny ones and in loose soil in flower bed... 🧐 it’s grown all through flowers too... nightmare! A job for tomorrow maybe!
Yes, that's what mine look like, but usually a lot deeper in the soil (20cm+) so the one there may be a baby.
Yes @BobTheGardener they were very tiny ones! Just had a dog out of interest... the bigger ones had bigger corms... I’ve noticed more and more 🙈 it’s literally everywhere! Going to be a mission, especially m the ones that have grown all through some lovely flowers that are just shooting up! I imagine the bigger they are and different locations are going to be much trickier to get up!
Is it really arum? It looks very like what I have in my garden. Bought under the name "asarum something or other". It never gets more than about 20 cm tall and if you look in the middle of the clump you'll find these brown flower buds with long 'tails', as they develop they look like mice diving down a hole...
That will (I think) be Arisarum proboscideum (Mouse plant) - not Asarum which seems to have not dissimilar leaves, but is in a different plant family. I expect it's easy to tell between the foliage of Arum maculatum and this Arisarum, but I haven't got the latter to compare - I saw it ages ago in Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Will be obvious once in flower - mousy things hiding under the foliage, or large upstanding spathes - only just noticed that you were pointing at one of the mousy flowers in the photo (superposed on the oak leaf).
@BobTheGardener and anyone else who knows about the corms on the alum... I’ve been digging a lot up today... the ones I can get! There’s a lot in the middle of some long grass like shoots... when I’ve dug them up, they have similar ‘corm’ bottoms? Are they the start of the alum or is this another plant that I should re-plant? Thank you! 😊
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That will (I think) be Arisarum proboscideum (Mouse plant) - not Asarum which seems to have not dissimilar leaves, but is in a different plant family. I expect it's easy to tell between the foliage of Arum maculatum and this Arisarum, but I haven't got the latter to compare - I saw it ages ago in Cambridge University Botanic Garden. Will be obvious once in flower - mousy things hiding under the foliage, or large upstanding spathes - only just noticed that you were pointing at one of the mousy flowers in the photo (superposed on the oak leaf).