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Is this a weed?

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  • BijdezeeBijdezee Posts: 1,484
    It's what they call 'veldsla' here (Belgium) and they sell it in the supermarkets. I didn't recognise it because I've never seen it with flowers.   :D
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Jacquimcmahon said:
    Weird plant next to classic forget me not….. by the way hubby thinks I’m mad wandering in and out taking bits off plants for photos 🤪
    On pic #1 the flowers look blueish, on pic #2 they look white!
    Do you have a pic of the whole plant in situ? That would help.
  • Mrs-B3-Southampton,-HantsMrs-B3-Southampton,-Hants Posts: 732
    Whatever it is I think thats what Ive been pulling out of my garden. I saw a plant in a new border last year and wondered if I'd forgotten what I'd put in. This Spring I saw lots of blue flowers in the bed which is at the bottom of the garden. I natually thought my forget me nots had spread (I always let them seed).
    This last weekend, when I went to weed the bed, I discovered that superficially they're like f me n but the flowers are paler and the leaves aren't hairy.
    Southampton 
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Skandi said:
    It looks like Valerianella locusta/lambs lettuce to me, the wild type not a cultivated version.



    Agree.

    https://gobotany.nativeplanttrust.org/species/valerianella/locusta/
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • JacquimcmahonJacquimcmahon Posts: 1,039
    Here it is in full, hiding in between the tulip leaves and the pansies. 
    Marne la vallée, basically just outside Paris 🇫🇷, but definitely Scottish at heart.
  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Thanks for the in situ pic @Jacquimcmahon.
    It does look like Valerianella locusta.
  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Hi Jacqui - I let a few plants of mâche go to seed last/this month and they look like forget-me-nots.  The little flowers are just closing up now.  Could be the "lettuce" thing!
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

  • Papi JoPapi Jo Posts: 4,254
    Actually, in spite of the similarity of the "tiny flowers", those 2 plants belong to different families:
    Valerianella locusta => Caprifoliaceae or honeysuckle family (!)
    Forget-me-nots or Myosotis => Boraginaceae, including, amongst others, alkanet (Alkanna tinctoria); borage (Borago officinalis); comfrey (Symphytum spp.) etc.






  • tui34tui34 Posts: 3,493
    Merci @Papi Jo  

    Hoping these wee girls go to seed and give me lots of mâche this winter.
    A good hoeing is worth two waterings.

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