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What is this please?

owlladyowllady Posts: 15
in Plants
Could anyone identify this plant please as it popped up in the garden and I'm pretty sure I didn't plant it. I need to know if it's a friend or a foe!
Many thanks.
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  • parrotfeather*parrotfeather* Posts: 188
    It looks a bit like Greater Celandine, which crops up all over my garden and has yellow flowers which seed everywhere. It has orangey-coloured lower stems and roots if you dig it up to look,but there are lots of plants with similar leaves.  If it is Celandine you could wait for it to flower to find out as it is quite pretty, but a pest if left to seed.
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    It reminds me of Scots lovage, Ligusticum scoticum. 
    East Anglia
  • owlladyowllady Posts: 15
    Many thanks for your suggestions. 
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I think it’s the greater celandine,  don’t have that here but do have the lesser is a real pain,  it covers the garden in the winter. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • owlladyowllady Posts: 15
    Ooh thank you for that. I looked it up and think you are right and someone else suggested that too. I don't want it to take over my other plants so will dig it up. Thanks again.
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 661
    Does it have a yellow sap @owllady ?
    East Anglia
  • bcpathomebcpathome Posts: 1,313
    I would call it a foe not a friend and remove it.
  • owlladyowllady Posts: 15
    Thank you bcpathome. I am going to remove it asap. I don't want it to take over the garden.

    Asarum, No I can't see any yellow sap but the leaves are so tiny as yet!

    Thanks both.


  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    edited September 2023
    It's not Greater Celandine so don't remove it on that account. Is it coming out of the ground in more than one place, it looks as though it might be



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • owlladyowllady Posts: 15
    It's limited to one small area about one foot square and is coming out of the ground in several places within that if you see what I mean. Can you hazard a guess what it might be if you don't think it's Greater Celandine?
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