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Plant & Weed ID Megathread

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  • #202
    finla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭finla


    Hi all
    Hoping someone here can identify this tiny weed please? It's spreading on the driveway and I want to keep it. The flowers are only about 5mm across and the leaves are very similar to clover. The 50mm screw is for scale! Thanks.DSC_0427.JPG


  • #203
    looksee
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    That appears to be Black Medick.

    Naff moment - this is one of the wildflowers I remember thanks to the 'Flower Fairy' books I had when I was about 7.

    'Why are we called black, sister, when we've yellow flowers?
    I will tell you why brother, see these seeds of ours?
    Very soon each tiny seed will be turning black indeed!'


  • #204
    [Deleted User]
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    Yes, Black Medick, just about make out the point at the leaf tip. Well worth keeping too, flowers for months.


  • #205
    yogibear77
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    Does anyone know what this is? Thanks


  • #206
    HoteiMarkii
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    yogibear77 wrote: »
    Does anyone know what this is? Thanks

    It looks like Sagina subulata. The flowers are white in colour.


  • #207
    yogibear77
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    Thanks, its popping up all over my rockery


  • #208
    [Deleted User]
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    I think it's more likely Procumbent Pearlwort, Sagina procumbens, very common, no petals.

    S. subulata is an uncommon species in Ireland.


  • #209
    HoteiMarkii
    Registered Users Posts: 135 ✭✭HoteiMarkii


    Deleted User wrote: »
    I think it's more likely Procumbent Pearlwort, Sagina procumbens, very common, no petals.

    S. subulata is an uncommon species in Ireland.

    Yeah, it's a little wispy looking for S. subulata. S. procumbens looks like a good call.


  • #210
    Cody OHare
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    I'm rejuvenating a tired garden with overgrown flower beds. Instead of purchasing all new plants, I'm trying to rescue some that are already there. So Im trying to work out what these flowers are.


    2 pics of same plant

    https://flic.kr/p/2g8vJRi
    https://flic.kr/p/2g8vJS5





    Not sure if this is a flower or weed?
    https://flic.kr/p/2g8vxSm


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  • #211
    lottpaul
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    Cody OHare wrote: »
    I'm rejuvenating a tired garden with overgrown flower beds. Instead of purchasing all new plants, I'm trying to rescue some that are already there. So Im trying to work out what these flowers are.


    2 pics of same plant

    https://flic.kr/p/2g8vJRi
    https://flic.kr/p/2g8vJS5





    Not sure if this is a flower or weed?
    https://flic.kr/p/2g8vxSm




    Plant is a sisyrinchium.

    Second one is a weed afaik - can't remember what it is - and could be wrong!


  • #212
    macraignil
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    lottpaul wrote: »
    Plant is a sisyrinchium.

    Second one is a weed afaik - can't remember what it is - and could be wrong!


    The one in the pot looks like dead nettle/lamium which could be described as a wild flower or a weed depending on whose garden it is in.


  • #213
    Cody OHare
    Registered Users Posts: 75 ✭✭Cody OHare


    macraignil wrote: »
    The one in the pot looks like dead nettle/lamium which could be described as a wild flower or a weed depending on whose garden it is in.


    having looked it up, I does look like dead nettle.


  • #214
    finla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭finla


    Cody OHare wrote: »
    having looked it up, I does look like dead nettle.

    Dead nettle is a grand little plant/weed. I have it in patches, it'll spread if you let it but it's easier to control than most other perennials. Nice purple flowers which bees like.


  • #215
    Granite Head
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    Granite Head wrote: »
    Can you help with this plant. I have three of them in a shaded area, two of them look dead and this one is struggling.

    Anyone?

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  • #216
    looksee
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    Granite Head wrote: »
    Anyone?

    Poor thing, you should put it out of its misery! Could be a geranium of some sort possibly. Unless it has a mass of buds emerging at ground level at the bottom of all that dead stuff, its a gonner.


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  • #217
    Granite Head
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    looksee wrote: »
    Poor thing, you should put it out of its misery! Could be a geranium of some sort possibly. Unless it has a mass of buds emerging at ground level at the bottom of all that dead stuff, its a gonner.

    I think your right with geranium (cranesbill). Very few green shoots so I think its a "gonner". Any reason why three plants would fail in the same area?

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  • #218
    lottpaul
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    Granite Head wrote: »
    I think your right with geranium (cranesbill). Very few green shoots so I think its a "gonner". Any reason why three plants would fail in the same area?




    Geraniums hate shade, from competing plants, fences, hedges trees etc and also wet or heavy soil. If you replant them in a very well drained and sunny spot and they might recover.


  • #219
    Granite Head
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    Could someone please identify the purple plant / weed growing through the Choisya

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  • #220
    lottpaul
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    Looks very like willow herb. Spreads very quickly if allowed go to seed.


  • #221
    [Deleted User]
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    I think this is Purple Toadflax, you must be around Dublin, the only place I've seen this.


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  • #222
    Granite Head
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    I think this is Purple Toadflax, you must be around Dublin, the only place I've seen this.

    Yes, Dublin. Is this a weed?

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  • #223
    Granite Head
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    Yes, looked at some images of purple toad flax and very similar. Classed as a "wild flower":confused:

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  • #224
    [Deleted User]
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    It's a garden flower that has gone wild in places, so a matter of opinion I suppose. I'd love to have it turn up in my garden


  • #225
    auspicious
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    Day Lewin wrote: »
    If you can keep some, I'd love some seed of that. Dry, warm garden. I love exotics.
    auspicious wrote: »
    When I handled it, the plant was dead - woody, luckily. !

    https://agrowinggarden.com/blog/angels-trumpet-flower-or-devils-trumpet-flower/

    So it may not be datura if it appears.


    Meanwhile
    Think this is a queen buff-tailed bumblebee on Red Campions which took a hammering in the rain.


  • #226
    ShiverinEskimo
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    Apologies for the ****e/large pic - car was pulling away when I decided to take the pic. It's a woody hedge of sorts with clusters of pink flowers. Absolutely swarming with Bees.

    482209.png


  • #227
    looksee
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    I'd be fascinated to know what that is! Couldn't be a clematis I suppose? It seems to have 5 petals. Clematis flowers don't usually grow in bunches - do they?


  • #228
    New Home
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    Was that photo taken in Ireland?


  • #229
    ShiverinEskimo
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    New Home wrote: »
    Was that photo taken in Ireland?

    Yep. Alfie Byrne Road in Clontarf.


  • #230
    standardg60
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    I would say it's a large flowering variety of escallonia from the leaves and general form.


  • #231
    fryup
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    this one?

    weed4.jpg


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  • #232
    macraignil
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    fryup wrote: »
    this one?

    weed4.jpg


    Is it a type of sow thistle?


  • #233
    fryup
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    here's another one..

    weed5.jpg


  • #234
    New Home
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    Horse tail. Or cosmos. I think.


  • #235
    finla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 174 ✭✭finla


    Definitely mare's tail.


  • #236
    Sabre0001
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    Could anyone ID this please? Saw it growing outside a church in my area recently enough.

    482754.jpg

    🤪



  • #237
    looksee
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    Looks like osteospermum, aka veldt daisy. They are closed because they need a bit of sunshine to open. Nice plant, vigorous, easy.


  • #238
    Harry Palmr
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    I've got scores of Scarlet Pimpernel - Anagallis arvensis appearing at the top of the garden (since I cleared it of brambles over the winter a few hitherto unseen flowers are appearing in the space) are these at all bee friendly or will they just look nice for a while?


  • #239
    Shaunoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 521 ✭✭✭Shaunoc


    Shaunoc wrote: »
    i'm looking at it for 3 years - yet to see it flower. directly in my line of sight from work desk.
    it'll stay for this year

    Viola !


  • #240
    Speedsie
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    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    Shaunoc wrote: »
    Viola !

    Looks like some sort of Turk's Cap lily, lovely! Would have thought it might need a bit more light that directly under a tree, could you transplant stone if it in autumn?


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  • #241
    Shaunoc
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    Speedsie wrote: »
    Looks like some sort of Turk's Cap lily, lovely! Would have thought it might need a bit more light that directly under a tree, could you transplant stone if it in autumn?

    we have tormented it in the past few years with heavy machinery and earthworks.
    gets early and late sun directly and must be getting enough throught the Ash canopy which is not that thick.
    I think i'll leave well enough alone as it came good and looks impressive enough for now. not sure if it would/could continue flowering for much of summer...


  • #242
    Speedsie
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    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    Shaunoc wrote: »
    we have tormented it in the past few years with heavy machinery and earthworks.
    gets early and late sun directly and must be getting enough throught the Ash canopy which is not that thick.
    I think i'll leave well enough alone as it came good and looks impressive enough for now. not sure if it would/could continue flowering for much of summer...

    It might lean a little out towards the sun, and you may need to stake it if it does, but it should bloom for a few weeks. It likes dappled sunlight, I just think it's a little close to the trunk.

    It can grow quite tall, over six foot from what I recall, and has a very heavy scent.

    I haven't seen one in the flesh for years, just going on memories of my grandfather's garden. So, I could be wrong!


  • #243
    irishproduce
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    Hi knowledgeable folk.
    Pretty sure a sycamore/ maple is after planting itself in my garden.
    Am I right?

    Should I remove it or can it live and grow outside the house without much danger/ hassle to the family?

    Front garden is about 10 metres X 20 metres.

    Appreciate any advice.

    2f051km.jpg


  • #244
    New Home
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    Looks like it alright. I'm not certain, but I think it looks a bit like a plane tree, too (platanus acerifolia, maybe?).


  • #245
    irishproduce
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    Good spot. Could be.
    I'm wondering if I should move it somewhere better since it decided to live here or remove it if it will damage things like the road or pipes or the house.


  • #246
    New Home
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    Oh, definitely move it, possibly in the middle of a field - they are both rather big trees, once they're fully mature (I don't know how big their root system is, though).


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  • #247
    ShiverinEskimo
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    It will make a mockery of that wall when it gets big. Move /kill it.


  • #248
    Speedsie
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    ¡arriba, arriba! ¡andale, andale!


    irishproduce wrote: »
    Hi knowledgeable folk.
    Pretty sure a sycamore/ maple is after planting itself in my garden.
    Am I right?

    Should I remove it or can it live and grow outside the house without much danger/ hassle to the family?

    Front garden is about 10 metres X 20 metres.

    Appreciate any advice.
    ]

    A rosebush in a cornfield is a weed.
    This tree is in the wrong place, as others have said, if you can, move it, if you don't have a suitable location either gift it to someone else or just remove it.


  • #249
    [Deleted User]
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    Just wondering what this is thanks


  • #250
    magicbastarder
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    no image included.


  • #251
    [Deleted User]
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    Sorry. Was on the phone and didn't think the text would post when it said the image was too big. Here it is


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