Hogweed or not?

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• Liriodendron Posts: 8,328

  August 2023

  I wonder if you're right, @pitter-patter...
  
  https://www.jungledragon.com/image/101570/sulphur_cosmos_-_cosmos_sulphureus.html
  
  

  Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.

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• bédé Posts: 3,095

  August 2023 edited August 2023

  marcmejack said:

  Here is a baby poking through the gravel.
  
  
  

  Looks more like a seedling to me. 
  
  Triffid?
  
  1. Grow it on for a while.
  
  2.  Pull it up immediately.

   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."

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• punkdoc Posts: 15,039

  August 2023

  More meaningless, unhelpful comments, how do we manage when you are not around.

  How can you lie there and think of England
  When you don't even know who's in the team
  
  S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border

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• Lyn Posts: 23,190

  August 2023

  Without knowing the actual size,  I’d go with Sulpher cosmos as well. 

  
  

  Did the OP buy any of those seeds? 

  Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 
  
  

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