hi all,we are trying to identify this plant we found in a neglected school wildlife pond. It isn't one that I recognise. Please help! It was floating and growing upwards with the roots not attached.
It was wild celery I was trying to dredge up from the depths of my mind it was very early in the morning and not much coffee had been taken I was thinking of a wild form of a garden plant but which one, which one???
Is Water Dropwort the poisonous one you were thinking of Nut? Don't thinkit's that - as far as I know the leaves of WD are more finely cut than those shown - but there are different varieties ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
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I know that I recognise it but I've not had enough coffee yet this morning ............possibly Angelica sylvestris???
Anyone got any other ideas?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
This is what it looked like in situ.
Not angelica. There are related plants that grow in water. wild celery is one and there's a poisonous one that I can't remember the name of.
I don't know any of them well enough to ID. Landgirl might know
In the sticks near Peterborough
It was wild celery I was trying to dredge up from the depths of my mind
it was very early in the morning and not much coffee had been taken 
I was thinking of a wild form of a garden plant but which one, which one???
Is Water Dropwort the poisonous one you were thinking of Nut? Don't think it's that - as far as I know the leaves of WD are more finely cut than those shown - but there are different varieties ...
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Could it be fools watercress?
Or lesser parsnip?
Another possibility Deedle.
In the sticks near Peterborough