Yes maybe I have confused two different plants. I will get check again when I get home, apologies for any confusion. The problem plant is definitely the photo I originally posted though, have pulled up most of them now but will try and find one intact.
I also don't think this is G elder, the roots of which also have a distinctive smell and you would see underground runners being sent out as the plant matures. I think this is an umbellifer - does it have a carrotty-shaped root, many of them do. I think I also have this weed- don't know what it is but it flowers like a cow parsley
The second photo appears to show the older darker leaves being as photo one and the newer later foliage being lighter in colour and starting to become lobed, both images show the double serration along the leaf margins indicating the same plant.
I wonder if it might be Feverfew....Tanacetum parthenium. Generally it seeds very easily, but I suppose the acid test is whether it will produce white daisy-like flowers....or, more to the point, whether you are happy to live with it until then!!
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They do don't they. Are you sure they're the same plant PE? Those leaflets aren't the same shape at all.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Yes maybe I have confused two different plants. I will get check again when I get home, apologies for any confusion. The problem plant is definitely the photo I originally posted though, have pulled up most of them now but will try and find one intact.
Thanks again
I also don't think this is G elder, the roots of which also have a distinctive smell and you would see underground runners being sent out as the plant matures. I think this is an umbellifer - does it have a carrotty-shaped root, many of them do. I think I also have this weed- don't know what it is but it flowers like a cow parsley
Looks rather like a parsnip, is it a wild parsnip ? I don't know how common this is.
reckon we've got two different plants here. Look at the shape of the leaflets.
PE may be able to get more photos
In the sticks near Peterborough
The second photo appears to show the older darker leaves being as photo one and the newer later foliage being lighter in colour and starting to become lobed, both images show the double serration along the leaf margins indicating the same plant.
I wonder if it might be Feverfew....Tanacetum parthenium. Generally it seeds very easily, but I suppose the acid test is whether it will produce white daisy-like flowers....or, more to the point, whether you are happy to live with it until then!!
Is it willow weed?
I think it's parsnip, Pastinaca sativa. It's not ground elder or feverfew, I don't know what willow weed is. Not excluding Alexanders yet...