Plant ID please

Victoria Sponge

Hi Guys,

Just wondering if anyone knew this one? I suspect it's a seed from one of my hen's treat boxes but I googled the ingredients and couldn't find it...

 

I haven't been wanting to ask in case it's a sunflower or something But I would really like to know

 

 

Yviestevie

Looks like Coreopsis.

Victoria Sponge

I wondered that about the flower Yvie but I was put off by the size and speedy appearance - do they generally get so big?

nutcutlet

Try birdseed, Niger

BobTheGardener

I'd also say it's a tickseed of some kind, maybe Coreopsis lanceolata which is one of the weedy ones.

Edit: I think Nut has it (as usual!)

nutcutlet

Victoria Sponge

Ha! How cool, I would never have guessed that. I've had a few spillages (faulty feeder) and nothing has ever grown but that one.

Very impressed! Thank you

Mulberry badger

hi, I think it is Coreopsis too.  I have it with other bright colours, orange cosmos and geum and it looks fantastic at the edge of a hot bed.

nutcutlet

I'll stick with the niger, 

Victoria Sponge

The coreopsis in your picture looks lovely with the butterfly, mulberry badger 

I have a couple of the perennial types and somebody sent me some coreopsis tinctoria seeds which have been lovely this year.

I looked up the name guizotia abyssinica to look up images of the Niger plant and am certain that is what has seeded.