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Plant ID help-flowers now

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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Is it False Lily of the Valley,  I don’t know the correct name.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • REMF33REMF33 Posts: 731
    The flowers with serated leaves do look like a valariana. Is it definitely the smooth leaves that belong to it? You seem to have two plants mixed up there.
  • Desi_in_LondonDesi_in_London Posts: 731
    edited June 2022
    @REMF33 think the serrated leaves are the valeriana photos posted by silversurfer ( not the OP pics)?

    edit to add - - although in the two leaf pics posted by OP  ( the one where silver surfer could see the leaves were opposite in the first pic) - to me the second pic shows very slight serration.
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  • pugslovesunpugslovesun Posts: 300
    The seration is very very slight, hardly noticeable. Was saying that because on the photos posted by silver surfer it’s easily noticeable.

    Don’t think the flowers are right for false lily of valley & the leaves of those are really smooth! But that’s the most like it so far.
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    My thoughts were for butterbur but then seeing all the comments....no!
  • pugslovesunpugslovesun Posts: 300
    I’ve had a suggestion of buckwheat.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I grow buckwheat - plant bought at Beth Chatto's garden - https://www.bethchatto.co.uk/conditions/plants-for-general-conditions/fagopyrum-dibotrys.htm

    The flowers are cream and frothy and not like the OP's photo.  However, other forms of fagopyrum are available so maybe one of those would fit.

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  • pugslovesunpugslovesun Posts: 300
    thanks, yeah I didn’t think flowers were right. They don’t seem to be coming out. Oh well will keep searching !
  • pugslovesunpugslovesun Posts: 300
    I asked for Id help from RHS & got Valarian Alliariifolia as response 
  • ardelanceG4csfsqnardelanceG4csfsqn Posts: 10
    It looks like beans or ivy or sweet potato, and yes it does look like buckwheat too. Maybe not some of those since there are flowers with that shape.
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