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What is this?

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WhatNoReally · 06/05/2022 15:19

Hello, I have this plant/weed all over my garden this year. Any idea what it is? I feel like I should know because I must have had some last year, but now it's rampant!

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florentina1 · 06/05/2022 15:41

Could it be oriental poppy? They self seed like crazy.

caringcarer · 06/05/2022 16:38

Looks lovely me a type of fern.

hedgehogger1 · 06/05/2022 16:43

Looks nothing like a fern to me! Could it be a thorn apple?

WhatNoReally · 06/05/2022 16:44

It could well be an oriental poppy @florentina1@florentina1 I say 'it's but there are hundreds of the buggers. I'll probably pull them up.

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WiseUpJanetWeiss · 06/05/2022 16:51

Looks like deadnettle to me. There's a huge amount of it near us this year.

WhatNoReally · 06/05/2022 17:13

I'm pretty sure they will be poppies. I won't get rid of the lot and will report back in a month or so!

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PrettyMaybug · 06/05/2022 17:20

The pics are a bit small. But they look like nettles to me

PrettyMaybug · 06/05/2022 17:22

Actually the second pic looks like nettles. Is it the same plant on both pics?

PrettyMaybug · 06/05/2022 17:22

The first pic doesn't look like nettles really. Not sure what it is though.

MereDintofPandiculation · 07/05/2022 09:21

WhatNoReally · 06/05/2022 17:13

I'm pretty sure they will be poppies. I won't get rid of the lot and will report back in a month or so!

Wrong leaves for poppies,oriental or otherwise. Don’t think it’s any oftge suggestions so far, but flowers would help.

BewareTheBeardedDragon · 07/05/2022 09:36

Definitely not poppy imo. Could be nettle leaved bellflower.

WhatNoReally · 07/05/2022 15:50

It's not a nettle. The bellflower seems like a good call.

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SierraSapphire · 07/05/2022 16:05

PlantNet says hemp for the first picture (nettle as second choice) and honesty for the second, but with low confidence (3-7%)!

BewareTheBeardedDragon · 07/05/2022 16:11

It's not honesty!

BewareTheBeardedDragon · 07/05/2022 16:13

And hemp looks like cannabis with several leaves coming from a central point in a circle - nothing like this one.

SierraSapphire · 07/05/2022 17:04

Yes, I didn't think Plantnet had got it right, but it's interesting it couldn't identify it.

MereDintofPandiculation · 08/05/2022 14:30

BewareTheBeardedDragon · 07/05/2022 16:13

And hemp looks like cannabis with several leaves coming from a central point in a circle - nothing like this one.

Or in botanical terms, it has palmate leaves (ie compound leaves with several leaflets all arising from the same point) 😉

I think nettle leaved bellflower is the only possibility from suggestions so far. There’s enough in the pics to reject all the other suggestions

BewareTheBeardedDragon · 08/05/2022 16:18

Thanks @MereDintofPandiculation for the enlightenment, as ever 😚😃

WhatNoReally · 08/05/2022 19:35

I found a more mature one with the flower buds. Definitely looks like the bellflow @BewareTheBeardedDragon mentioned.

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BewareTheBeardedDragon · 08/05/2022 19:43

😀

MereDintofPandiculation · 09/05/2022 09:38

Yes, that’s a Campanula (bellflower) bud. All the campanulas have them, very distinctive

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