Plant & Weed ID Megathread

macraignil

Looks like a poppy to me as well but not sure what kind. I got seed before so it could be planted but I think they are also able to self seed in places. A weed is any plant in the wrong place so that question's answer would depend on whether you want it growing where it is or not.

Happy gardening!

Jim_Hodge

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One of the ornamental poppies. Probably self seeded,

wildwillow

It’s a poppy, probably self seeded. Enjoy its colour but remove the seed heads before they ripen to limit the seeds from taking over the garden.

coillsaille

Along one boundary of our garden these very tall shoots appear every year, not flowering yet but afaik they produce long purply/pinkish flowers later in summer. They have completely surrounded a few young alder trees.

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Would like to know what they are.

The Continental Op

An old Plant & Weed ID Megathread classic Rosebay willowherb http://speciesofuk.blogspot.com/2014/01/week-34-rosebay-willowherb-chamerion.html

The Continental Op

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I'd call that opium poppy, Papaver somniferum. Not that you'd get raided by the drugs squad for growing it.

Pawwed Rig

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The petals seem to last all of about 10 mins before falling off. I have never seen the same flower 2 days in a row. The garden is fairly wild tbh. Moved in earlier this year and there has been about 15 years of neglect previously

looksee

Yes, that's about right, they last only a short time (a day usually), I like them, they would be very welcome to take up residence in my garden! There were some large double pink poppies growing 'wild' when we moved in but they seem to have exhausted themselves.

Pawwed Rig

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We have ivy everywhere. I even found a small wall and flower beds recently that I didn't know were there buried beneath it

New Home

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Blackbirds love it, they nest in it and go mad for its berries in winter. :)

coillsaille

Have some lovely flowers at the moment in the area of the garden we've put aside as a kind of wildflower meadow. Could someone tell me the name of the blue flowers in the photo?

Also there's an unusual looking (to this novice gardener anyway) three headed orange flower, close up in the other photo, which I've never seen before.

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New Home

The blue one could be a type of cornflower; the orange one reminds me of helichrysum.

looksee

The orange one is fox and cubs http://www.wildflowersofireland.net/plant_detail.php?id_flower=1&wildflower=Hawkweed,%20Orange

the blue one appears to be cornflower or possibly scabious, its hard to see from the pic. Its a bit late for cornflower but that's what it looks like. It would be helpful to see a leaf.

Thinking about it, the garden cornflowers are earlier but the field ones are probably about right to be in flower now.

coillsaille

I had a look at some images or cornflowers and they do look similar alright but bigger I think. We have a rocky site here in Connemara and these flowers are only growing either on very stony patches or in crevices in rock, never see them growing in areas with better soil. Some more photos attached.

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looksee

Cultivated cornflowers are bigger, have a more defined flower and have bigger leaves. These have adapted to rockery conditions but I think they are cornflowers. If you look under the flower there is a little bowl shaped part that the petals come out of, it has overlapping scales of brown/green, and the new buds look the same.

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This is Sheep's Bit, Jasione montana, a real Connemara and wild Atlantic specialist. Native.

looksee

Thank you for that identification, its one I am not familiar with.

coillsaille

Thanks for putting a name to them. There's something lovely about them that makes us have a soft spot for them, maybe because they grow in such barren spots where hardly any other flowering plant would.

Floody Boreland

What is getting to my breakfast before me? Growing these

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in a greenhouse.

looksee

Slugs or woodlice. You get a great crunch off a woodlouse in a strawberry!

Jcb21

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Hi,

I hope someone can help me id this. It has started growing in a flowerbed and seems to be connected by thin roots.

The Continental Op

My best guess is its some form of annual Euphorbia? We have it in the garden. If you break the stems do you see a white sap coming out?

Possibly Sun Spurge https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/sun-spurge ?

Floody Boreland

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Thanks, didn't know woodlice had a sweet tooth. Certainly slugs and woodlice are abundant in the greenhouse.

wildwillow

Jcb21, probably euphoria alright. If it has a milky liquid when the stem is broken, be careful as it is an irritant. Wear gloves when handling..

Planet X

Hi, can anyone identify this weed in the lawn and how to eradicate it. Currently digging it out with kitchen fork but the roots are mostly not coming out, snapping off. Rhizomes underground. Sprayed with "lawn weedkiller" but no effect. Cheers.

The Continental Op

Not had to deal with that little bastard in 23 years - Ground Elder. Bad luck mate its in my top ten of really bad weeds you don't want and may never get rid of.

That said the leaves aren't really pointy enough for it to be ground elder???

Verdone if you can get it should have some affect on it in a lawn but you need to let it grow for about a week spray then leave it another week to work.

Edit> Does the crushed foliage (and root) have a very strong characteristic smell? If so then ground elder.

Planet X

Used "Dicophar earlier this year and this plant has survived.

Just now sprayed with Weedol Lawn Weedkiller and will monitor in a week.

Planet X

No smell really......if pushed possibly parsley but that's at a stretch.

The Continental Op

Its not ground elder then. You wouldn't say ground elder is not smelly.

Parsley family is what it looks a bit like.

The Continental Op

OK so this is a US site but this looks a possible if we look at the leaf and take a leap of faith on the smell - wild parsnips. https://www.turfcaresupply.com/turfkiller-wild-parsnips

In which case DO NOT damage the leaves with your bare hands to smell it - if it is wild parsnips I know from personal experience it can cause a nasty rash.

But again I'm less than convinced. The other obvious weed it could be is creeping buttercup which is certainly difficult to get out of a lawn but is affected by Dicophar as thats what I use on it with reasonable effect.