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Help identifying this weed?

rhi.sharprhi.sharp Posts: 3
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Can anyone help me in Id-ing this weed? It popped up in my growbox and I don't know whether to add it to my "wild" garden corner or to remove it entirely.

https://i.imgur.com/RWMbFyJ.jpg

The forget-me-not's will be going in, but I want to know what this is 

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  • Loraine3Loraine3 Posts: 569
    Linaria
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 10,293
    They're lovely plants - I grow the blue variety and the pink one.
    They do self seed all over the place, but can be pulled up where you don't want them
    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,391
    edited April 2019
    Linaria purpurea, commonly know as purple toadflax.  It is a nice wild plant but does seed profusely and if it likes your garden, can be a bit invasive.  Easily pulled-up though.

    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  • rhi.sharprhi.sharp Posts: 3
    Thank you!
    Is it work keeping?
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 13,716
    Only you can decide that, I love them.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 10,293
    I think so too.
    The flower spikes get to about 4-5ft and need no staking - and they're free!
    Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
    Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
  • rhi.sharprhi.sharp Posts: 3
    I'll go ahead and add it to my little wild corner. It's a very pretty looking plant!
  • BobTheGardenerBobTheGardener Posts: 11,391
    The ones growing here have very small individual florets in the heads and rarely grow above 3ft but I've seen them elsewhere where they are taller and have the larger florets, Pete, so not sure if there are several variants or down to growing conditions.
    A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
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