Another wild thing?

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• JennyJ Posts: 10,576

  May 2021

  It looks like something in the mallow family to me.
  

  Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  

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• Ilikeplants Posts: 894

  May 2021

  Thanks, I guess no harm letting it be for now and see what comes of it.

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  May 2021 edited May 2021

  Looks like Jack by the Hedge ... Hedge Mustard 
  abd other names the food plant of the Orangetip butterfly caterpillars
  
  http://www.naturessecretlarder.co.uk/wild-food-useful-plants/jack-by-the-hedge-alliaria-petiolata.htm
  

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

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• Ilikeplants Posts: 894

  May 2021

  The leaf is quite big but does look like a young Jack by the hedge. A foragers alternative to wild garlic it seems. Thanks.

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