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Very old mystery..id requested
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I have folder with unlabelled pics. Yet to be identified.
This is an old one...May 2016.
Found near a stream, on the gravel shore next to a fresh water Loch, near Pitlochry. Scotland.
I have never been back at the right time to see the flowers.
I am sure someone here will instantly recognise it.
Thanks for looking.








This is an old one...May 2016.
Found near a stream, on the gravel shore next to a fresh water Loch, near Pitlochry. Scotland.
I have never been back at the right time to see the flowers.
I am sure someone here will instantly recognise it.
Thanks for looking.









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Thank you for looking.
Leaves are very different on Lovage.
I don't think the leaves match Geum...common name Avens
The very old woody flower stems were very upright and tall.
In pic below they can be seen above the old wooden bridge.
In the sticks near Peterborough
So sorry Lyn but it is nothing like Mountain avens
Dryas octopetala, the mountain avens..... it is tiny.
It creeps along the ground.
The leaves are evergreen, small.
see pics below.
Mystery plant had old, very tall, woody flower stalks. ..see pic above with woody flower stems showing higher than old wooden bridge.
I do not believe that my pic shows the complete seed head.
I believe in 2015 all the seeds dispersed, leaving behind a single pointed cone shaped central core.
The mystery plant has just one pointy core bit on each tall, woody, dried stem.
The new young leaves are growing well, but it is still very early in the growing season.
I do not believe that old pointy bit can belong to any umbellifer...which rules out Angelica.
I suspect it is a garden escapee rather than a wild flower...but may be miles out.
Pics below are Angelica sylvestris.
I feel one flower per stem is important.
Could it be something like Rudbeckia????
With all the calyx/petals/seeds long gone.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=rudbeckia++seed+pods&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiiuaetyP2CAxUfpCcCHSu2CJUQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=rudbeckia++seed+pods&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQDDIHCAAQgAQQGDoECCMQJ1D0BliADWDUGmgAcAB4AIABZYgB4gSSAQM2LjGYAQCgAQGqAQtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZ8ABAQ&sclient=img&ei=ltpxZaKWOp_InsEPq-yiqAk&bih=571&biw=1280#imgrc=LADMnnDCkxYCSM
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https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=rudbeckia++seed+pods&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiiuaetyP2CAxUfpCcCHSu2CJUQ2-cCegQIABAA&oq=rudbeckia++seed+pods&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQDDIHCAAQgAQQGDoECCMQJ1D0BliADWDUGmgAcAB4AIABZYgB4gSSAQM2LjGYAQCgAQGqAQtnd3Mtd2l6LWltZ8ABAQ&sclient=img&ei=ltpxZaKWOp_InsEPq-yiqAk&bih=571&biw=1280#imgrc=XQdei8Tfui18fM
So Ranunculaceae family maybe?
I was going to search but my internet search engine is playing up. I don't know about the shape of seed heads. Might be the right shape-ish after all the seeds have gone and weather worn.
And your plant looks way taller than them too.