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Please could someone identify these flowers

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PrincessFiorimonde · 10/06/2022 16:34

I'd be really grateful if anyone could identify these 3 flowers:
(1) We inherited the white spiky one (in front of the marigold) when we moved in 2 years ago. The flower spikes turn red in the autumn.
(2) I think the pinky one is a willow herb, but am not sure. (Not a great photo, I admit, especially with the unrelated leaves to the right.)
(3) And I think the blueish/purple one might be cleevers, but again I'm not sure.

Any answers appreciated!

(DP and I are possibly the only people in the western world who don't have smartphones, so we can't use a plant identification app.)

Please could someone identify these flowers
Please could someone identify these flowers
Please could someone identify these flowers
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Blossomandbee · 10/06/2022 16:44

The first and third ones look similar to this which is Penstemon?

Please could someone identify these flowers
Abzs · 10/06/2022 16:48

Google lens says 1) Persicaria, 2) willow herb, 3) purple toadflax. The Persicaria I have in my garden has that sort of leaf but smaller denser flower spikes. I can't offer anything further on the willowherb or toadflax, except to say the toadflax looks rather pretty and I wish I had some.

flyingwalrus · 11/06/2022 08:29

2 is definitely willowherb and 3 is definitely purple toadflax. The toadflax is a really nice garden plant and the bees love it. Seeds around a little but not too badly.

Geneticsbunny · 11/06/2022 08:33

I agree with goggle lens

MereDintofPandiculation · 11/06/2022 08:49

A Persicaria, don’t know which one, a willowherb, possibly Epilobium montana, and Purple Toadflax, Linaria purpurea.

PrincessFiorimonde · 11/06/2022 15:35

Thanks all for your help. The toadflax is quite pretty; we've grown it from a cutting taken from a plant by the roadside.

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CherryReid · 14/06/2022 08:07

Persicaria, Libertia, veronica???

stripesorspotsorwhat · 14/06/2022 18:42

We found some of that purple toadflax in our garden when we moved here, and 30+ years later it has seeded, grown, seeded, grown, the older ones have died (they only last 3-4 years) and occasionally some years, they surprise us with some pink ones too. It is a native wild flower, but not all that common.

MereDintofPandiculation · 14/06/2022 21:08

It is a native wild flower, but not all that common. No, not a native. It is a neophyte - an alien which arrived since 1500, but naturalised.

Foxfeeder · 14/06/2022 22:57

First one looks like Persicaria Affinis - possibly Superba.

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