Plant id anyone?

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Bit of a long shot, but my friend who is in Italy at the moment just sent pics of a plant that she's never seen before, and she's usually the person I go to to identify plants because she's very knowledgeable so I'd like to help her out and get this one identified. Of course being in Italy it may well be something more usual in hotter climes. My friend is Italian but has lived in the UK for fifty years now, but her knowledge of plants I think is pretty good for both countries so I'm surprised it's such a complete unknown for her. Looks like an alpine/rockery type plant to me. She's in Genoa.
If anyone gets any results from a plant app they are very welcome to share them and I'd certainly be interested to see what one says, but I don't have a plant app or use one myself and I know they can be unreliable and a bit of a blunt instrument. Thanks gardeners! 🙂

Images under review of course.

Well that was a quick review! 😂

I can't help I'm afraid. There is a way to search google pics, but no idea how.

If no luck on here, post it on gardeners corner website, they are very good.

My Flora Incognita app suggests Pink Smartweed (Persicaria capitata)

Pinkhead knotweed
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/78451-Persicaria-capitata

Thank you so much!
I'll send her the info. She'll be so pleased, and (she's not very tech savvy or on the Internet much really) amazed and perplexed at how I managed to solve this! 😂

For future reference:
Right click - search with google lens

@MrsPernicious Thank you for explaining the google lens. I knew there was a way to do it- but had no idea how! 😆

Thank you MrsP - can you do that on a phone though?

If you have an iPhone you can click the plant / animal button at the bottom of a picture and it'll tell you the type of plant or a breed of animal it thinks it is

Search with an image from search results

1. On your Android phone or tablet, go to Google.com.
2. Search for an image.
3. Tap the image.
4. At the bottom left, tap Google Lens .

Looks like this

Ah yeah, I knew that.
But because it was a photo my friend sent, I didn't know how to search it.
Thank you though. Every little chip of info lodges in the brain somewhere. 😂

I’ve got an app called Picture This that ids plants/flowers/trees
It’s free and makes a totally unnecessary sci fi like scanning action/noise that makes me laugh and it gives you the option to save the pictures to a file

I use Plantnet app constantly for plant ID. You can take a photo within it or load from your phone gallery.

Persicaria capitata 'Pink Bubbles

Position: Sun or shade
Soil: Any soil
Flowering Period: Jun - Sept
Hardiness: Hardy
Eventual Height: 15cm (6")
Eventual Spread: 45cm (18")
A pretty and delightful small carpeter, that will form a little colony but is not invasive by any means in the UK. Small marbled leaves of green, with tiny chevrons that darken with age, reddish stems and little pink "bubbles' of flowers in summer. Great around rocks and large shrubs. Can be damaged in winter but returns slowly.

You can usually get it in the UK at garden centres in late spring - it is normally with the summer bedding plants to put in hanging baskets and containers. It is not hardy in the UK though, so would be killed by frost.