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plant id, please

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LoveSatsumas · 14/06/2020 18:46

I'm sure it's a weed but want to be sure before I start ripping it out. Hopefully you can see it, amidst the sweetpeas.
TIA

plant id, please
plant id, please
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bluefoxmug · 14/06/2020 18:48

has it got a stem?
could be an ash seedling.
or wisteria

LoveSatsumas · 14/06/2020 18:58

@bluefoxmug
It's got a stem but also very tiny pink flowers, on the stem.
I'll see if I can take a better photo

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LoveSatsumas · 14/06/2020 19:10

Better photos

plant id, please
plant id, please
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Knittedfairies · 14/06/2020 19:21

It looks a bit like common vetch. Maybe...

LoveSatsumas · 14/06/2020 20:27

@knittedfairies. Thank you. Just looked common vetch up and that's exactly what it is.
Off to pull it up now

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MereDintofPandiculation · 15/06/2020 10:33

It looks too pink for common vetch (Vicia sativa) which is pinky purple rather than pink, and the leaflets are too broad. Also, the terminal leaflet of a vetch is replaced by a tendril, and on your plant you seem to have a terminal leaflet. So one thing we can be sure of, unless the pictures really aren't doing justice to the colour, and are not showing the leaves well, is that it isn't common vetch.

I don't think it's a UK wild flower, I think it may be something that got mixed into the sweet peas. If it were me, I would leave it, and I'd be scouring European floras to try to identify it.

But you clearly don't like it, whatever it is, so by all means get rid of it.

LilyRed · 16/06/2020 01:09

I'm up late watching noctilucent clouds and reading through the gardening section of Mumsnet so please excuse any atrocious grammar and spelling: I believe it's one of a group of sweet peas (lathyrus), rather than vetch, generally grouped under perennial sweetpeas.
Possibly lathyrus vernus, or spring pea www.gardenersworld.com/plants/lathyrus-vernus or black pea shireplants.co.uk/lathyrus-niger-perennial-sweet-pea/ - apols for the latter being a shop link.

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