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Looks like a lettuce - anyone know what this is?

h.russellzWJV9SrWh.russellzWJV9SrW Posts: 3
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I have a plant growing in 3 places in my garden. It looks almost like a large lettuce. Any idea what it is?

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  • pitter-patterpitter-patter Posts: 2,429
    The top one looks like a foxglove, but I might be wrong. The photos are quite blurry.
  • h.russellzWJV9SrWh.russellzWJV9SrW Posts: 3

  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Not a lettuce.
    Mullein/verbsacum?
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited September 2021
    Not really a clear enough pic … but possibly a Verbascum, or maybe Nicotiana sylvestris perhaps?  A self seeded one from last year maybe. They pop up in my garden in late summer. 

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





  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    Certainly could be verbascum.
  • GrajeanGrajean Posts: 447
    Looks like tobacco plant seedlings. Lots in my garden.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Probably Mullein,  if you leave it it will shoot up a 6 - 7ft flower spike next year. I love them. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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