Plant identification please

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Can anyone identify these 2 plants? I have a feeling I might have been cultivating a weed!

I can't post them. Doesn't matter, I'll keep watering them anyway.

If you've not been registered long, I think there's a few days wait till you can post photos. So maybe try again later.
If in doubt keep it them till they flower, much easier to ID then. And if it's a weed, at that point take out before it sets seed.

Hopefully this works, apparently I can't upload from the app.

The one in the pot looks like a horse chestnut seedling

The first one looks like some kind of Willowherb. there are different species, but yes a wildflower.

Thank you both, is the horse chestnut a tree then? I have three in pots that my sister gave me. She definitely didn't think she had bought trees!! I'm assuming they will grow very big then?
Ok, so the other one is effectively a weed? It has grown in a pot with another plant, should I remove it to stop it stifling the other plant or will it be ok to leave?

If it IS horse chestnut then yes it's a tree! Difficult to be sure without a proper look at an individual leaf.

Willow herb is indeed a weed. Thankfully it's one of the easiest to pull up. It offers no resistance which is good because it's one of the most common ones.

Thank you all, I will keep an eye on my 3 trees to see how they develop and I will take the weeds up.

It’s not horse chestnut. Horse chestnut leaves have about 5 same-shaped leaflets all rising from the same point. Yours had leaflets from the same point, but the central one is lobed. So not horse chestnut. Maybe there’s another Aesculus species that does have lobed leaflets? I think that’s a plant worth growing a bit longer.

The other is one of the smaller flowered Epilobium, willow herb, species. It’s a wildflower, and can be considered a weed if it’s growing somewhere you don’t want it - but that’s a decision for you, not a property of the plant

Willowherb is very pretty. No need to pull it up if you like it.

Thank you, I will give the large leaved plant longer to show itself. The other plant is pretty and I dont have a problem except that it has seeded itself within pots that have other plants in them. One of the plants is fine and thriving and I will definitely leave that there, but the other one is struggling. I'm not sure if it the wildflower that's causing it to struggle.

I'm not sure if it the wildflower that's causing it to struggle. Probably not. If the willowherb seeded itself into the pot and is now big enough to crowd out the other, then it suggests the other has grown hardly at all and was already in trouble. But if the plant is struggling, then it would be better off without the willow herb. So the willowherb will be affecting it now, but was probably not the root cause of the struggles.

If the other plant is bigger than the willowherb, the willowherb will be competing for nutrients but won't impede it majorly.

You have, however, discovered why many people root out willowherbs - abundant seed, with a good germination rate.

Not a young horse chestnut tree, but I think its Rodgersia aesculifolia

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/15918/Rodgersia-aesculifolia/Details

I think it's been quite a difficult time for plants, until just recently we have had brilliant sunshine and then really low temperatures, so I think the original plant was just taking off and might be fighting for nutrients, but I'm happy to have wildflowers, I'm thinking they attract bees?

[quote Trethew]Not a young horse chestnut tree, but I think its Rodgersia aesculifolia

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/15918/Rodgersia-aesculifolia/Details[/quote]
It does look like this. I will post again if it flowers.

[quote Trethew]Not a young horse chestnut tree, but I think its Rodgersia aesculifolia

www.rhs.org.uk/plants/15918/Rodgersia-aesculifolia/Details[/quote]
I don’t think it has the leaf texture for Rodgersia (I have that species and another in my garden)