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Flowering plant ID, please.

soulboysoulboy Posts: 429
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Does anyone recognise the plant below. It was growing at the back of a border where I had sown seeds last year from a box of 'wildflowers'. I suspect it's a biennial or short-lived perrenial.

I was clearing a lot of that border yesterday and was able to get to it where it had been growing up a beech hedge. It's a tall plant with branching stems and an alternate leaf pattern.

The main stem is striated and the flowers are bell-shaped, light blue/lilac in colour.

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  • MobowMobow Posts: 92

    Hi 

    From the flowers, it looks like Common chicory (Cichorium intybus).

    It's a perennial in my garden. I love the colour of the flowers

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,158

    I wouldn't have pulled that upimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • MobowMobow Posts: 92

    Hi jo47

    The plants are in flower at the moment and they are just setting seed. So I'll save  some and let you know when they're ready.

     

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 83,879

    I agree - Common Chicory - the roadsides between Norwich and Beccles are blue with it at the moment - gorgeous image


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • soulboysoulboy Posts: 429

    Thanks for everyone's input. Nutcutlet, it wasn't deliberate, I was clearing plants that had died or were past their best from the border and it got pulled by mistake.image

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,158

    This happens soulboyimage



    In the sticks near Peterborough
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