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Weed or Flower

I need help. I planted a variety of wildflower seeds last fall. Some of the seedlings have appeared especially the one that I have inserted. Is this the beginning of a weed or a flower?
Thanks for your help!
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What you would term a weed.
Thank you for the immediate response.....I was hoping it was not a weed....Oh well!
Does anyone know what this "weed" is called?
I get lots of it also, it's Persicaria maculosa
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
Yes, persicaria maculosa known to me and other people who have spent many hours hoeing fields of sugar beet in their youth as Redshank ..... a common weed in recently disturbed soil.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
was it in your packet of wildflowers seeds?
In the sticks near Peterborough
I am not saying it was in my seed packets but the way they are scattered around in my garden it looks like I sowed them. I used 2 packets from 2 different companies. Looks like I will have a lot of weed pulling to do as other flower seedlings have appeared and I don't want to disturb them. I don't think they will be pretty enough to leave alone. As Dove stated above it was tilled and sowed in the fall and I was hoping for a stand of flowers instead of weeds. Just sayin'
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