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Plant ID

CompleterookieCompleterookie Posts: 130
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Abcdeplease help with ID ing these plants 
Thanks in advance 
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  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I think they are mostly weeds.
    A. Could be a baby goosegrass.
    b. A weed but I've forgotten its name.
    c. Euphorbia, probably a wild one.
    d. Geum urbanum, wood avens, weed or wild flower depending on your point of view.
    e. Could be a baby buddlea, probably of the wild variety, quite pretty though.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • LunarSeaLunarSea Posts: 1,923
    a) could be Toadflax, technically a weed but a rather lovely one.
    b) could be a Primula

    agree with @Busy-Lizzie on the others
    Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. 

    I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    b. Has prickles on the leaves. I wondered about bristly oxtongue.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • bullfinchbullfinch Posts: 692
    Maybe the prickly one is teasel?
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited February 2023
    1. ?
    2. agree teasel. keep
    3. mole spurge.  keep
    4. wood avens
    5. budleia
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    I wouldn't keep the mole spurge.  It's a native euphorbia of little ornamental value.  It certainly doesn't keep moles away and it has nasty sap which can burn if you get it on your skin in sunlight.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • LiriodendronLiriodendron Posts: 8,328
    I agree with most of what everyone else has written!

    1. Linaria purpurea (purple toadflax)
    2. Teasel
    3. Euphorbia (spurge)
    4. Could be Geum urbanum (wood avens) - though I have a dwarf orange geum which looks exactly like that at the moment
    5. Buddleia
    Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
  • philippasmith2philippasmith2 Posts: 3,742
    1.  Linaria  worth keeping (tho it seeds everywhere) as the bees love it  :)
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited February 2023
    Obelixx said:
    I wouldn't keep the mole spurge.  It's a native euphorbia of little ornamental value.  It certainly doesn't keep moles away and it has nasty sap which can burn if you get it on your skin in sunlight.
    I like it.  It is very architectural.

    Like the teasel, grow ir for one year and see what you think.

    The sap is a rubber latex.  Even worse if you get it on your clothes.  Neither detergent, nor solvent will get it out.  Just water if you are quick before it dries.  Perhaps add a touch of ammonia.  It works, I've done it.  It's like Copydex or watercolour resist.

    The sunlight bit is another plant.  Giant hogweed.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • Slow-wormSlow-worm Posts: 1,630
    I'd keep the toadflax and buddleia too. 
    Yes, pull spurge with gloves on, or without breaking it. I learned what it was after getting sap on my face!
    Geum is a PITA, it spreads everywhere, can break easily at the root, and the bristley flower heads stick to your clothes. 
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