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Plant ID please
Daryl2
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Can anyone put a name to this? I suspect that I don't want it as it looks as if it sprouts from an underground root system and seems to be popping up all over the garden since the cooler wet weather has come. 
It's probably going to get the glyphosate treatment but I'd like to know what it's called before I get rid of it
It's probably going to get the glyphosate treatment but I'd like to know what it's called before I get rid of it
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Either that pic or my eyes are a bit blurred
It looks like dandelion that's had the top chopped off several times and become multi-headed.
I assume a deep root that you can't dig up
In the sticks near Peterborough
It's not Dandelion. The leaves are distinctly variegated and it seems to grow out from the centre in a rosette. The roots aren't long and tapered like a dandelion, more soft and fleshy like a bindweed but they broke off easily when I dug down a few inches.
If you dig it up does it come back?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Looks like a dandelion to me - probably damaged at some stage.
Looks like a dandelion to me too. I think it's tap root was damaged (slug or something) and it's had to develop new roots which meant it was deprived of nourishment during growth.
Dandelions can also look like that if weedkiller has been used but then they were chopped off before the root was completely dead.
Thanks for the replies everyone. Mystery solved I think