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Plant ID please
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This was given to me as a tiny cutting last easter. It has been gradually building up leaves since then and hasn't yet flowered.
What is it?
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Think it looks like a Stachys - byzantina silver carpet, I brought one recently
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=5478
does look rather like some kind of stachys (lambs ears) though mine has more slender leaves and really silvery - but also ressembles my hawkbit (a garden thug with lovely red flowers, good ground cover and easy to remove the bits that spread too far) - or even the centauria montana (an early cornflower with large heads) - why don't you ask whoever gave it to you?
^^^that is what I though - lambs tongue.
Could be a Lychnis coronaria? They are biennial so if it is one of these you can expect it to flower this year.
I don't think it's growing habit is quite like a Lychnis Coronaria...I think they are more compact at that height.
I would go with stachys of some sort.
I was thinking more like Centaurea montana.... blue perennial cornflower.
I think GardenG is right, not the Stachys with lilac flowers but the one with white flowers.
My first thought was Lamb'sLugs/Ears too, just looks a little too fuzzy for Knapweed/Centaurea but I can see the similarity to that as well.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have doubts about any of the plants mentioned so far but can't offer anything better
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