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Can you identify this plant

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Dodie66 · 19/04/2020 17:43

Trying to find out what this plant is for a friend who is now on Mumsnet. She thought it might be a foxglove. Any ideas?

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Dodie66 · 19/04/2020 17:43

Not on Mumsnet

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Hawkmoth · 19/04/2020 17:44

Yes foxglove, might be an ornamental variety which is why quite a large clump.

Hirsutefirs · 19/04/2020 17:45

Looks like foxglove leaves.

Poppins2016 · 19/04/2020 18:06

Hmm. Could be foxglove. But it also looks like it could be a clump of comfrey. Does your friend have a picture of the plant when it's flowering/or even just a close up picture?

Dodie66 · 19/04/2020 19:09

Somebody else said comfrey. It’s just come up in her garden so she doesn’t know what the flowers are like yet

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Maisiecow · 19/04/2020 19:38

Could also be Salvia but difficult to tell from the picture

BobTheDuvet · 19/04/2020 19:46

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woodencoffeetable · 19/04/2020 19:51

comfrey and alkanet are both flowering already. both look similar to foxglove.

both comfrey and alkanet have enormous roots. if it's easy to dig out it's foxglove.
and both confrey and alkanet have spikey stems and leaves that leave you with scratches.

Dodie66 · 19/04/2020 20:32

Thanks. I’ll tell her to investigate if it’s spikey

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NanTheWiser · 19/04/2020 20:42

I'd go with foxglove - maybe a number of seedlings coming up together.

stella1know · 19/04/2020 20:58

Comfrey likes
To Spread and make a nice little picnic blanket for itself.

Dodie66 · 19/04/2020 21:46

She said it’s not spikey

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IdblowJonSnow · 19/04/2020 21:54

We have lots of Foxgloves and they look like the plant in your pic.

Magicbabywaves · 19/04/2020 21:58

Foxglove.

MereDintofPandiculation · 20/04/2020 10:53

Comfrey and alkanet have rich green leaves. The leaves in your picture have a blueish tinge which would point to foxglove. Foxglove is normally biennial, but sometimes it doesn't die after flowering and then it seems to come back as a clump like this.

Dodie66 · 20/04/2020 12:09

Thanks everyone. I’ll update when it flowers

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Dodie66 · 09/05/2020 14:16

Update. She just sent me a photo and it’s foxgloves. She has over 40 plants all over her garden which must have seeds somehow

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MereDintofPandiculation · 10/05/2020 10:20

Foxgloves have very long lasting soils, They're natural niche is to sit in the woodland seedbank for years, then, when a tree falls down, upturning soil as its roots are ripped out, and letting light in, some of the foxglove seeds are brought to the surface and are triggered by the light to germinate, So if you have foxgloves in your seedbank, and turn the soil over for any reason, you get a crop of plants. We had an amazing display, over 100, in the front garden the year after we built our pond.

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