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Plant ID please
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Hi Guys,
Just wondering if anyone knew this one? I suspect it's a seed from one of my hen's treat boxes but I googled the ingredients and couldn't find it...
I haven't been wanting to ask in case it's a sunflower or something
But I would really like to know
Wearside, England.
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Looks like Coreopsis.
I wondered that about the flower Yvie but I was put off by the size and speedy appearance - do they generally get so big?
Try birdseed, Niger
In the sticks near Peterborough
I'd also say it's a tickseed of some kind, maybe Coreopsis lanceolata which is one of the weedy ones.
Edit: I think Nut has it (as usual!)
In the sticks near Peterborough
Ha! How cool, I would never have guessed that. I've had a few spillages (faulty feeder) and nothing has ever grown but that one.
Very impressed! Thank you
hi, I think it is Coreopsis too. I have it with other bright colours, orange cosmos and geum and it looks fantastic at the edge of a hot bed.
I'll stick with the niger,
In the sticks near Peterborough
The coreopsis in your picture looks lovely with the butterfly, mulberry badger
I have a couple of the perennial types and somebody sent me some coreopsis tinctoria seeds which have been lovely this year.
I looked up the name guizotia abyssinica to look up images of the Niger plant and am certain that is what has seeded.