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Anyone know what this is?
D0rdogne_Damsel
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Been nurturing this for weeks, looks very healthy and neat but a flower appeared yesterday and looks very much like a buttercup to me. Any ideas?
Thanks for advice as always. 
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I'd trace that flower back to base and make sure it belongs to the main plant. It may have been infiltrated
In the sticks near Peterborough
Might be some kind of Evening primrose but doesn't look quite right. Have a sniff of the flower - Oenothera are fragrant late in the day.
Good point nut.
4 petals on oenothera (I think, might need checking)
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yep, 4 petals is right I think so either an invading flower there or it's something else entirely. Leaves look at bit like a Leucanthemum?
I think Nut's right - furtle around gently in that plant and I think you'll find a buttercup plant growing up inside it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Thank you all, it was a buttercup infiltrating. I did check at first but it was so entwined and the leaves looked just the same it really looked like one plant. Very sneaky.
Any ideas as to what the main plant might be? I have a vague recollection of something daisy- like there last year, but at that point is was heavily overgrown wth bindweed.
Or an oxeye daisy (Leucanthemum.)