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Wild flower ID help please

FireFire Posts: 19,096
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I was hoping this was going to be wild campion. But no. Finely hairy leaves. Thanks






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  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    @Fire, Could it be Centaurea?  My wild flower mix also includes (inter alia) oregano, cornflower, vipers bugloss, phacelia. Any of these ring a bell, I haven't a clue what they look like though although I can identify some of the other mix.  
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I don't think it's that but thanks
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    By the way it is spreading out it could be one of the willowherbs.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited April 2021
    It looks a bit like a plantain to me. The weed, not the banana!

    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • PeggyTXPeggyTX Posts: 556
    You beat me to it, @B3.  I was going to say it looks like plantain to me, too.  I've been reading up on health benefits of common weeds and was looking recently at some pics of plantain.    
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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I beg to differ, not a plantain. I did know what it was but my elderly brain is on strike!
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Very fuzzy, hairy leaves. I know what it is too, I just can't place it. I planted a load of wild flower seeds last autumn and quite a few blow in from neighbouring gardens.
  • wild edgeswild edges Posts: 10,497
    Fire said:
    I was hoping this was going to be wild campion. But no.

    Any reason why not? It does look quite campionesque.

    If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I've just been pouring over pictures of Silene latifolia and they don't seem to fit. Example below.




    But it won't be long before these flower. There's so much seed coming up in the bed that I have no clue about - it's just wait and see time.

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited April 2021
    wild edges said:
    Fire said:
    I was hoping this was going to be wild campion. But no.

    Any reason why not? It does look quite campionesque.

    I agree ... it looks like the White campions I know.  Like many wild plants, there can be a bit of variation from region to region. 

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





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