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Can you identify this plant/weed please?

(18 Posts)
shysal Wed 15-Aug-18 13:35:13

This has popped up in my neighbour's garden, and she has asked me to help identify it. I used the Picture This app but the three suggestions are not quite right. The closest is Chinese Astilbe, but it has more pronounced leaf ribs than on my photo. I hope it isn't ground elder! Any ideas? Thanking you in advance.

janeainsworth Wed 15-Aug-18 13:51:24

Sorry shysal but I thought ‘ground elder’ even before I enlarged your photo sad

kittylester Wed 15-Aug-18 13:52:50

And me!

Mapleleaf Wed 15-Aug-18 14:21:00

Yes, it looks rather like ground elder, I’m afraid.

Telly Wed 15-Aug-18 14:45:54

In my garden I would also say this is ground elder. I pull it up and have been known to use roundup. It has gone now, but you have to be vigilant. I also have a varigated form in a border, but this hot weather seems to have done for it. Hope it will reappear next year!

Luckygirl Wed 15-Aug-18 14:52:11

Yup - I agree. It goes everywhere as it has underground roots. I just pull it up, but it really needs treating at root level either by digging up the whole bed or using chemicals.

M0nica Wed 15-Aug-18 16:56:41

Ground elder. It keeps creeping under the fence from next doors unkempt garden and appears in my organic veg garden. I just hoe it regularly and any I pull out goes into the kitchen waste bin and does not go onto the compost heap.

shysal Wed 15-Aug-18 17:19:22

Many thanks, that is not good news. It seems to be the only plant so hopefully it can be successfully dug out.

farview Thu 16-Aug-18 16:59:35

I don't know what it is but it isn't ground elder!!

farview Thu 16-Aug-18 17:03:21

..hadn't finished..it doesn't look like the ground elder that I'm plagued with in my garden..

janeainsworth Thu 16-Aug-18 17:13:25

www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=215

Here's the RHS advice about ground elder. The picture looks just like Shysal's to me.

Culag Thu 16-Aug-18 17:57:48

Don’t panic! I think it’s wild Angelica.

Fennel Thu 16-Aug-18 18:04:45

From your first picture it looked like field parsley leaves to me. From the same family of umbellifers as angelica.

MiniMoon Thu 16-Aug-18 18:09:15

Shown it to DH. He says it's wild angelica.

farview Sun 19-Aug-18 09:29:49

..yes that's exactly what it is..wild angelica!!

SpringyChicken Sun 19-Aug-18 10:18:18

No no don’t dig it! Spray the leaves with glyphosate. Paint it on leaves where it grows into valued plants. Don’t be disheartened, you can eradicate it.

SpringyChicken Sun 19-Aug-18 10:22:06

Oops! Having reread your post, I note it’s the only plant so you could probably dig it out. Sorry

MichaelDismukes Tue 18-Sep-18 04:49:13

Its new to me. I cannot identify it.