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Plant (weed?) Identification

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FreckledNose · 04/08/2019 10:57

Planted Nicotinia, got this. Anyone know what is is? Leaves are velvety and stems are slightly sticky. Only reason I don’t think it’s a weed is that it’s well-anchored (my self-made, arbitrary rule for identifying weeds is that they pull up easily). Thank you....

Plant (weed?) Identification
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Beebumble2 · 04/08/2019 11:17

I’d wait till it flowers, from the photo the flowers do look Nicotinia shape. Maybe it’s just a different variety that got into the seeds.

NanTheWiser · 04/08/2019 13:20

Maybe Nicotiana sylvestris? A tall growing species with strongly perfumed flowers in the evening. Wait and see what it does.

MereDintofPandiculation · 04/08/2019 22:29

I don't think it's N sylvestris, which has very long flowers and therefore long buds, but it does look like a Nicotiana. And the stickiness fits too.

Definition of a weed depends on where it's growing and whether you want it there. A primrose amongst your radishes maybe a weed, in your lawn it could be a weed or a wild flower. You can buy Alchemilla mollis in a garden centre, but I pull it up wherever I see it.

Bienchen · 05/08/2019 17:08

cressleaf groundsel?

MereDintofPandiculation · 05/08/2019 20:44

cressleaf groundsel appears to be another name for ragwort, which has deeply lobed leaves unlike the simple leaves of this plant, and flowers in a flattish umbel-like head, not in a spike like this one. And of course yellow flowers, whereas these show every sign that they'll be opening white. This ticks all the boxes for being a Nicotiana species.

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