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Growing => Grow Your Own => Topic started by: greenhead on July 29, 2021, 15:58

Title: Wild flower in plot
Post by: greenhead on July 29, 2021, 15:58

Hi all,
Can anybody identify this wild flower appearing on my plot today. no visible leaf just a stalk with flower on top about 300mm tall.

Mike.

Title: Re: Wild flower in plot
Post by: coldandwindy on July 30, 2021, 09:48

Probably hawkbit, but might be cats ear, they're difficult to tell apart without seeing the leaves. There'll be a rosette of dandelion-like leaves on the ground.

We've got an old hay field that never gets any sprays on it. Hawkbits are fairly common but don't cause any problems. I'm presuming they're not poisonous because one year a visitor mistook them for dandelions & made a bucketful into wine. He didn't get any side effects apart from the usual confusion and falling over that one expects from home made wine. 

Title: Re: Wild flower in plot
Post by: greenhead on July 30, 2021, 12:02

Thank you,  never heard of hawkbit Flowers don't last very long, today just the flower storks.

Mike.