Is this a weed? ....

According to Google lens it is garlic mustard. Here is a bit about it.

Garlic mustard, also known as 'Jack-by-the-hedge', likes shady places, such as the edges of woods and hedgerows. It can grow to over a metre tall and has small white flowers that appear from April. It is a biennial plant, so takes two years to complete its lifecycle. It grows young leaves in its first season, which it keeps over winter, and then flowers in the spring of its second year.

I would pull it out unless you want to cook with it.

Yes it’s a weed, not a pernicious one, I get it on my allotment and pull it out as it grows quite big. Don’t know it’s name- but I recognise it.

Are the flowers yellowish in colour? If so yes it is mustard garlic. If they are white, I think it is wild garlic.

If you scrunch the knaves and smell them, that will at least confirm it is garlic.

knaves? Leaves

I haven't had a scrunched up knave in a long time!

It's not wild garlic.

Yes, garlic mustard. An invasive thug with traces of cyanide but it is edible. Lovely in salads.

Definitely not wild garlic that has a really long skinny leaf

BlueBelle

Definitely not wild garlic that has a really long skinny leaf

Yes, it has.

Don't eat it unless you're sure.
If you do decide to eat it, please keep posting .....

Wisefalcon

Are the flowers yellowish in colour? If so yes it is mustard garlic. If they are white, I think it is wild garlic.

If you scrunch the knaves and smell them, that will at least confirm it is garlic.

Yes, it looks like garlic mustard.

I saw a pretty pale pink flower along verges in the countryside today, not one I'd noticed before in such profusion.
Could it be cuckooflower? Is it on the increase?

We couldn't stop to take a photo.

I know it as Jack by the hedge. It's a lovely wild flower.

BlueBelle

Definitely not wild garlic that has a really long skinny leaf

Wild garlic for comparison:

Try again

Wild garlic makes good pesto……

Ahh so looking it up online there seems a variety of different wild garlic This is what mine looks like
Obviously mines not like your photo always been told it was wild garlic and it’s a strong garlic smell
I m still alive 😂😂😂

BlueBelle

Ahh so looking it up online there seems a variety of different wild garlic This is what mine looks like
Obviously mines not like your photo always been told it was wild garlic and it’s a strong garlic smell
I m still alive 😂😂😂

That looks like garlic chives BlueBelle.

I think you’re right Casdon ahh well live and learn we just call it wild garlic, all these years been wrong eh

BlueBelle

I think you’re right Casdon ahh well live and learn we just call it wild garlic, all these years been wrong eh

BlueBelle I recognised it because I’ve got some, it’s really nice chopped up with rice dishes and salads.

The garlic leaves are very different - and the plant is low to the ground - the weed I have is over 2 feet tall. Certainly no garlic smell. I will resist the temptation to eat it!

It’s definitely Jack by the Hedge, which I have learnt from this thread today is also called Garlic Mustard.
I remember it from my childhood days when we used to roam the fields, and I had the I spy Observer book of Wild Flowers. ((Remember those!) Not only did I tick them all off. I used to press and example and attaché it to the relevant page.

Ah ... the wonderful I-Spy books! Do they still exist?

Luckygirl3

Ah ... the wonderful I-Spy books! Do they still exist?

I don't know, but they were wonderful, weren't they!!

What a pity that children don't seem to use them now, they could be observing the world around them instead of gazing downwards at their phones.

I get garlic mustard growing every year in the wild part of my garden. I don’t think I’ll try eating it!