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identify my plant please!

I have a plant that is fern like in leaf structure but the leaves are not fern shaped... it has trailing things coming off it with more leaves growing on them. Can anyone help me identify it? I am currently trying to figure out how to upload a picture. Thank you!
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  • thank you on it!

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    I think that's Potentilla anserina, silverweed. The manner of growth you describe sounds right as well.

    Also think it may have been renamed and now called Anserina something, maybe argentina 



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • So this is a weed?! My husband stole it from a gardens we visited. useless men!

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445

    Wait for a second opinion kirst but that's what it looks like to me.

    A suitable reward for nicking someone else's plant I think



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • LOL yea I just googled that name you gave me and it sure looks like that. Thank a lot!

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    it grews on road verges all round Devon/ Cornwall. 

    To me ,it's a weed.

    Devon.
  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    To my mother, a foxglove is a weed image

  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,888

    shame on your mother Steve .

    Maybe , just maybe the pinks , but the whites???? never.

    Devon.
  • No, not even the pinks Hosta, love'em here image

     

    Kirsty, if your OH liked it, buy him a Japanese Painted Fern and encourage his interest in plants. http://www.crocus.co.uk/plants/_/athyrium-niponicum-var-pictum/classid.1813/

    My OH didn't like gardening, but showed a bit of interest in sempervivums - I filled a pot with them and put them on the terrace by his studio window - now he's gradually developing a real interest in plants ........ softly softly catchee monkey image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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