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Help with plant ID please! Pic attached.

19 replies

Wonderfulcheapfalafel · 08/05/2023 16:30

Any ideas what this is? Kind of want to plant something else here but will keep this if it is something nice!

Help with plant ID please! Pic attached.
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Napoleonsjosephine · 08/05/2023 16:45

I am place marking as I have the same, I think it’s a weed, but was about to post and ask..

Squiblet · 08/05/2023 17:02

Not sure but it looks a bit like mint. Does it have a noticeable smell/taste?

Polik · 08/05/2023 17:04

Red stems make me think dogwood. Native British shrub, often found in hedgerows

user4750 · 08/05/2023 17:05

how woody are the stems. I think its a weed. one of the willow herb type weeds

LoonyLois · 08/05/2023 17:06

Looks like chocolate mint

DRS1970 · 08/05/2023 17:15

Looks like mint to me.

InMySpareTime · 08/05/2023 17:16

Google lens says water mint

Tulipvase · 08/05/2023 17:17

Probably a dicot. That’s what my app tells me everything is!

RunnerDown · 08/05/2023 17:19

I know nothing about gardening but not convinced that’s mint. It’s easy to tell - just rub the leaves and see if they smell of mint.
looks a bit like a fuschia to me

comeundone · 08/05/2023 17:24

Plantnet thinks most like spreading pellitory which is a weed, but have a look at leaves distribution and shininess, and check a leaf for minty scent in case it is a mint or marjoram. Salvia looks similar and is pretty but I think you're probably safe to get rid.

Help with plant ID please! Pic attached.
Geneticsbunny · 08/05/2023 17:37

If it is mint it will have a square stem. I don't think it is mint.

bilbodog · 08/05/2023 18:22

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pelitory+of+the+wall&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari

looks like this - can cause allergies. I have loads and its a damn nuisance - likes to get its roots into the roots of other plants so difficult to get out.

pelitory of the wall - Google Search

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=pelitory+of+the+wall&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-gb&client=safari

orangeflags · 08/05/2023 18:42

Agree with @bilbodog It's a menace. I've got loads of the damn stuff

MereDintofPandiculation · 08/05/2023 18:50

Pelitory of the wall was my first thought from the leaf shape and vein pattern, but that looks large compared to when I've seen it, although looking it up, it can grow to 60cm, so I think that's what it is. Leaf veins wrong for mint and for Fuchsia (note spelling), leaf shape wrong for Cornus (dogwood) or any of the willowherbs (which have long, willow-shaped leaves)

It is, however, a dicot @Tulipvase Grin

If anyone doesn't know what a dicot is, it's short for dicotyledon, meaning it produces two cotyledons or seed leaves. It's a big division in plants. Grasses, most bullbs, orchids are all monocots (only one seed leaf), nearly everything else is a dicot. Monocots have simple, usually linear leaves, with parallel veins, whereas dicots can have simple, lobed, toothed or compound leaves and usually a central vein with subsidiary veins coming off it. It's a good distinction to bear in mind when trying to identify it. If something has lobed leaves like an oak tree or like betony, it's not going to be an orchid!

Tulipvase · 08/05/2023 18:55

MereDintofPandiculation · 08/05/2023 18:50

Pelitory of the wall was my first thought from the leaf shape and vein pattern, but that looks large compared to when I've seen it, although looking it up, it can grow to 60cm, so I think that's what it is. Leaf veins wrong for mint and for Fuchsia (note spelling), leaf shape wrong for Cornus (dogwood) or any of the willowherbs (which have long, willow-shaped leaves)

It is, however, a dicot @Tulipvase Grin

If anyone doesn't know what a dicot is, it's short for dicotyledon, meaning it produces two cotyledons or seed leaves. It's a big division in plants. Grasses, most bullbs, orchids are all monocots (only one seed leaf), nearly everything else is a dicot. Monocots have simple, usually linear leaves, with parallel veins, whereas dicots can have simple, lobed, toothed or compound leaves and usually a central vein with subsidiary veins coming off it. It's a good distinction to bear in mind when trying to identify it. If something has lobed leaves like an oak tree or like betony, it's not going to be an orchid!

Thanks for the explanation!

Wonderfulcheapfalafel · 08/05/2023 19:33

Oo thanks everyone, defo not mint or any other fragrant herb. My app says pellitory of the wall too but often gets things wrong.... Never heard of this before! Think I will get rid as have a nice salvia amistad which will go nicely there .

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LilyRed · 08/05/2023 21:49

comeundone · 08/05/2023 17:24

Plantnet thinks most like spreading pellitory which is a weed, but have a look at leaves distribution and shininess, and check a leaf for minty scent in case it is a mint or marjoram. Salvia looks similar and is pretty but I think you're probably safe to get rid.

Yes, this - had it in my prev. garden. Also called "pellitory of the wall" as it grows at the base of or within cracks of sunny walls. It self seeds quite vigorously. I always kept one or two plants for diversity and pulled the unwanted seedlings.

polkadotdalmation · 08/05/2023 22:04

Mint?

LilyRed · 08/05/2023 22:27

If you break a stem of mint you will see that most have a square/four sided profile - pellitory doesn't smell of much and has round red stems

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