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Plant Identification => Plant Identification Questions and Answers => Topic started by: angie on August 06, 2010, 07:43:03 PM
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Hi everyone I have this plant seeded all over my garden I think its maybe is a weed... but before I pull it all out I thought I would ask the experts.
Angie :)
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOps I forgot the picture :-[
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I wonder if it might be a euphorbia? Have you one in the garden? E. mellifera, perhaps?
Paddy
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Angie ,
I suppose it is Euphorbia amygdaloides v.robbiae ....
it is a nice plant !
Hans
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Hi, I have a few Euphorbias in the garden and this is what I thought it might be...but what makes me think its not a Euphorbia is that when you break the leaf there is no white sap. There are hundreds of these all over my garden. maybe there isn't sap there because its only a seedling ?
I bet its some ugly weed :'(
Angie :)
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Angie ,
if this has not the typical white milk like all Euphorbia so it must be something other ....
sorry but I can not help
Hans
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Thanks Hans for the help. I see you are still having lovely weather over there, please can you post some over.
Angie :)
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Perhaps Lychnis coronaria ? but its foliage is greyer ::)
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Perhaps Lychnis coronaria ? but its foliage is greyer ::)
No its not this as you say the foliage of Lychnis coronaria is greyer...this I have seeded everywhere but I do like this bright flower.
Thanks, I will maybe just pot some up and wait and see.
Angie :)
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A Centaurea ? ::)
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Can you show a photo of one growing in the ground?
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Angie, when it is seeding around it might come from some neighbor garden and could be Silene armeria.
We had it once and I remember that the young plants looked similar.
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I have googled Lychnis coronaria I don't have this in the garden but like you said it might have come from elsewhere. I don't have any houses close to be but one of the woods behind us was felled and everything seems to have seeded itself there except of course this plant that I want to identify.
I have pulled out loads this morning but I cant throw any plants out until I see what it is...don't tell anyone but I have even potted up a plant which ended up just being some sort of strong grass :-[ I have now ten pots of ?
Angie :)
Oh here are some that are tucked away in a corner...so I will leave these.
Sorry pictures aren't very good.
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Looks very similar to Dianthus armeria - spent ages weeding a bed where it had seeded itself at will just the other day...
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What about Linaria vulgaris ? ? ?
Gerd
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I think it looks a lot more like Silene armeria. I have some seedlings of it myself, and it's a very perfect match.
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I wonder if we have missed the point. Angie's original posting asked, "Is this a weed or not?" Given the numbers in which it has self-seeded in the garden I think it might indeed be considered a weed in Angie's garden or at least a thug and this regardless of its identity.
Paddy
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Oooh! I wouldn't go that far, Paddy.... I've got meconopsis seeding around everywhere... and they are never a weed! ;D
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What!!!Meconopsis cambrica isn't a weed :P :P :P
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What!!!Meconopsis cambrica isn't a weed :P :P :P
Well , it at least is a pretty one, Martin, but I was meaning M. baileyi :D
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I think it looks a lot more like Silene armeria. I have some seedlings of it myself, and it's a very perfect match.
I'll make this the third vote for Silene armeria.
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What!!!Meconopsis cambrica isn't a weed :P :P :P
it certainly is here :o :o :o
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Paddy I am with you if this plant or weed seeds around like it has done I don't want it. It could take over my whole garden :o :o
I think we will have to wait and see what happens...I shall keep everyone posted, maybe I could give a prize to the one that got it right.
Thanks everyone for taking the time to help to identify the plant.
Angie :)
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I think I'd be pulling up the great majority and leaving a small group to mature and positively identify. ???
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maybe I could give a prize to the one that got it right.
Angie :)
Hope to meet you at the DW in October then?? ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D 8)