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Bad news? Identification help please

Dormouse1940Dormouse1940 Posts: 3
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Hi all,
I have a bad feeling about this weed in my back garden...can anyone help me identify it, please.

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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    It looks like a dock weed to me? I know what you are thinking JKW.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Dormouse1940Dormouse1940 Posts: 3
    Yep, I'm fearing the worst over here! 
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    I think it's a Persicaria of some sort, but they are in the same family as JKW and can be fairly thuggish as well. If you get a flower that should help with ID one way or the other, just keep a watchful eye in case more start to appear or  it grows taller. Have you looked over the wall to see what's on the other side?
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    I agree, it is a Persicaria, but not the dreaded JKW.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited July 2023
    @Dormouse1940 That is good advice to look over the wall. Do you have just the one or is there more than one to the right of the photo.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • Dormouse1940Dormouse1940 Posts: 3
    OK, phew I think- thanks everyone.

    Over the wall our neighbours HATE nature of any kind so it's all heavily concreted and plastic grass that side.

    It looks like we just have the one plant so far, getting a bit lanky now- it sneakily hid itself amongst a buddleia and a nettle so I didn't spot it when it was smaller
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited July 2023
    @Dormouse1940 I suppose the puzzle is where has it come from I don't think they readily set seed?

    If you look at Persicaria bistorta on line does that ring any bells? There are alot of different Persicarias but that one is more commonly grown. In leaf and without flowers it can be mistaken for the weed and is in the dock family.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I think this one is coming up to flower, probably an P. amplexicaulis cultivar. it's at about the stage mine are now


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @nutcutlet I see what you mean, it is the new growth at the top. 
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    GardenerSuze said:
    @nutcutlet I see what you mean, it is the new growth at the top. 
    yes, they're flowers coming not seed heads forming aren't they


    In the sticks near Peterborough
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