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Is this a weed?

nadineevans4444nadineevans4444 Posts: 12
in Problem solving
Does anyone know if this is a weed. I pull them out each year but now I am wondering if I shouldn't but its growing in the patio like a weed does ?? It has fine hairs all over its long thin green leaves.Thanks for any help.
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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Centaurea, I think. I like them . Some don't😊
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    They have blue "cornflower" flowers in summer.  Tough plants, hard to kill...
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • a1154a1154 Posts: 1,108
    Is it? Looks like orange hawkweed to me. 
  • Granny RGranny R Posts: 16
    Could be Borage, hairy leaves and blue flowers. Bees love them
  • a1154a1154 Posts: 1,108
    If you were going to pull it anyway, can you look at the roots? See if they are running roots, or take a pic. 
  • Victoria SpongeVictoria Sponge Posts: 3,502
    My first thought was orange hawkweed too. I call it fox and cubs. I kind of like it but it does get about.
    Wearside, England.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I agree with Orange Hawkweed. In small doses it can be nice.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • a1154a1154 Posts: 1,108
    It’s beautiful, but much too rampant. 
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I'd say definitely not hawkweed. The leaves lies flat to stop anything germinating nearby and the side of the leaves are wavy. (Don't know the technical term)
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • nadineevans4444nadineevans4444 Posts: 12

    Thanks for all of your suggestions. I thought I had loaded 3 pictures. I think this is the same thing.
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