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Can anyone identify this plant

HumberBoyHumberBoy Posts: 27
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Hi All.  Can anyone say what this plant is. I have about 6 growing in a small
area about 4ft x 4ft. I cant think that they are anything I have planted.
This specimen is about 4" across. Is it a weed ?? hey are not anywhere else
in the garden. That's why I think they could be plants and not weeds.

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  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    The leaf is quite distinctive and something in the deep recesses of my brain is saying Doronicum, but I don't grow it and google won't find me a clear pic of the leaf, so I can't check  :|
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • Busy-LizzieBusy-Lizzie Posts: 24,043
    I did a Google image search and it came up with garlic mustard but I'm not convinced.
    Dordogne and Norfolk. Clay in Dordogne, sandy in Norfolk.
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    Yes, jack by the Hedge / garlic Mustard.
    Remove.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • HumberBoyHumberBoy Posts: 27
    Hi All. I will have a sniff and taste tomorrow and report back. If it is Garlic Mustard all parts of the plant are edible. But it should have a distinctly Garlic smell when the leaves are crushed. Also the tap root has a taste of Horse Radish
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Garlic mustard (which it does look like) is the main food plant of the larvae of the Orange tip butterfly … so if they’re doing no harm where they are, or if you can grow them somewhere else in your garden, that’d be good 👍 

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





  • sweet pea Sarahsweet pea Sarah Posts: 129
    I tend to leave this for wildlife but pull some of it if I get too much.
  • HumberBoyHumberBoy Posts: 27
    Dear All

    Yes it is Garlic Mustard. Thanks for your info.
    As per Dove from above I have re planted it at the bottom of the garden so that
    the butterfly's can benefit from it.
  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Agree....Alliaria petiolata..common name Garlic mustard.
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
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