Identification help with chicory like plant

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  July 2023 edited July 2023

  I was wrong … I’ve been searching through my Keble-Martin and am pretty sure this is it  … Cicerbita macrophylla … the Blue Sowthistle
  
  https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/common-blue-sow-thistle 
  
  KM says it’s ‘a garden escape now naturalised in grassy places and on waste ground, widespread throughout Britain and Ireland’

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

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  July 2023

  @Dovefromabove. That’s the one. 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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• fidgetbones Posts: 17,618

  July 2023

  Very good. I have to say the flowers are very chicory like.  I currently have chicory flowering in the lawn, its been mown down once so its only about 15 inches high, wheras all those in flower beds are around three to four feet high.  The leaves are dandelion like.
  

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• pineapplemint86OmnPCUG2 Posts: 3

  July 2023

  @JennyJ & @Dovefromabove Amazing thank you!!!!! I would never have found that. Blue sow thistle it is!
  
  

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,147

  July 2023 edited July 2023

  I’ve had my Keble Martin Concise British Flora for over 40 years … marvellous!

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

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