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Suspected undesirable ID wanted
I have a few of these growing in an area where I sowed some mixed seed earlier this year. I suspect it's something undesirable, but am not sure.
In the pictures it's the plant with largish, serrated leaves. The leaves are growing on several, straight, individual stems, of which there are between 2-4 for each plant.
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They look a bit like parsnips, but probably aren't.
Crush a stem - does it smell a bit celery-like ... if so it could be lovage (a useful culinary herb - grows into quite a bit plant, a bit like angelica).
If not lovage, it's something in that family, which does include parsnips
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Shame Runny beak isn't here.
She let her parsnip run to seed and it was about 8ft high. She'd know if it was parsnip.
If it's not it is probably some sort of umbellifer that will send up a flowering spike next year and the hoverflies will love it.
hi soulboy as a few say and me it dose look like a parsnip try and do what dove says
Thanks for all your replies. As noone has identified it as an undesirable I shall let it grow and see what happens. I'll post an update when it fully develops.