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weed or not?

dave56armstrongdave56armstrong Posts: 50
in Plants
Is this a weed or is it about to bloom into lovely flowers?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    It might be centaurea. You won't have long to wait to find out🙂
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Looks like centaurea/cornflower to me too.  It comes in both annual and perennial forms 
    https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/search-results?form-mode=true&query=centaurea 
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  • SherwoodArrowSherwoodArrow Posts: 284
    edited June 2022
    It looks like my knapweed/Centaurea nigra  :)

    Pollinators love it 🐝 🦋.

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  • borgadrborgadr Posts: 718
    So it's both.  A benign "weed" about to bloom into lovely flowers - not too invasive and easy to pull up.  The kind that I usually leave alone.
  • GrannybeeGrannybee Posts: 332
    Great for bees. The car park at the Knepp estate is surrounded by a hedge of knapweed - it looks fabulous. 
  • dave56armstrongdave56armstrong Posts: 50
    thanks, didn't want to pull it up if it is going to be nice. 
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