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Weed or what ?

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  • Dilly3Dilly3 Posts: 91
    Is this a weed, it's been growing over winter and now has buds and flowers . No idea where it came from. 
  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,113
    Could it be Scorzonera?
  • Dilly3Dilly3 Posts: 91
    Hi Berghill, thanks for your reply. I googled the name but no it's not that. It's an odd looking plant as the leaves look a bit like a spider plant and the flower is only open when it's sunny. And it's quite tall. 
  • KateSKateS Posts: 1
    There’s an app called Garden Answers, you upload your pic to it and it will identify it, or at least give you some possibilies.  I’ve used it a few times as I live in Denmark and unsure of some of the plants we get!  Hope this helps if no one can identify for you 😊
  • Fire LilyFire Lily Posts: 296
    Looks like Tragopogon porrifolius, a veggie. :)
  • AsarumAsarum Posts: 624
    Goatsbeard - Tragopogon pratensis, a wild plant. 
    East Anglia
  • Fire LilyFire Lily Posts: 296
    Asarum said:
    Goatsbeard - Tragopogon pratensis, a wild plant. 
    No, the goatsbeard doesn't have those extra long "spikes" around the flower. :) The one I wrote come in several colours, yellow is common and purple. 

    And if it had been, it also would be a veggie. 
  • Dilly3Dilly3 Posts: 91
    thanks for all your replies, It seems all those names are correct , sorry I doubted you Berghill.  Strange plant but I think I'll pull it up I don't want it to seed elsewhere. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 25,257
    Looks like a 'what' to me. I'd keep it.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
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