Can you identify this please

[CremeFresh]

This has appeared and I don't know what it is, can you help please?
thank you

Looks a bit like raspberry.

https://www.rhs.org.uk/weeds/enchanters-nightshade

Thank you 😀

I think @Porridgeislife is better at this than me 😂

I have a lot of this - even though I try and remove them as soon as they pop up, they seem very hard to eradicate. They are easy to take up however!

They have fat white storage roots which run in the soil and allow them to spread. Easy to pull the plant up, hard to get all the root up with it.

There’s always the temptation to go by overall look (random upright stalk pushing through in an odd place always seems to be raspberry ) but you also have to look at details, eg, here the leaves are in opposite pairs rather than alternating up the stem, there’s some flowers in a spike at the top which raspberry doesn’t do, and a raspberry has a leaf made up of three leaflets. The opposite leaves always cheers the heart because it’s the less common arrangement and makes id much easier.

Plant apps of course go by overall look

Enchanter’s nightshade what a wonderful name !
sounds like a herb from a midsummer night’s dream

True @MereDintofPandiculation I was going by the idea that it vaguely looked like the raspberry bushes in our garden!

The name is definitely the best thing about it!

The scientific name is good too - Circaea luteitiana, after Circe, the enchantress in Greek mythology. And wiki tells me that lutetiana means from Paris, Paris being known as the “witch city”.

I wonder why? Afaik it's not used in herbal medicine or suchlike.

Googling suggests it has been used to dress wounds, and in the Scottish highlands as an aphrodisiac. The “nightshade” bit is from the resemblance of the leaves to nightshade.