Weed ID please

[Old Tip]

Can any one Id this one? Seems to be spreading out from the edge of the field, getting worse every year

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We call it Toad Pike or Scour Rush as it causes severe scouring and death in cattle, especially if it's found in hay or has been cut when topping and become palatable

 

[Princess Pooper]

No, it's not meadowsweet, leaves are wrong, looks like buckwheat to me, an escapee from a game or wild bird seed mix. http://eorganic.info/sites/eorganic.info/files/u3/better_flowering_buckwheat_with_bee.jpg

 

[wr.]

Looks like buckwheat to me also. I posted the same stuff about a year ago which a neighbour had been busy pulling out a big patch of it where pheasant cover had been grown previously. He thought it was jap knotweed.

 

[New Puritan]

Thank you everyone!

This forum is so helpful.

I also worried it was Japanese Knotweed for a moment, but it doesn't look tough enough. Buckwheat is pretty harmless isn't it - not frost hardy from memory. It seems to have come in with some seed I've planted, as it's in a part-field and has only come up within one crop. I won't worry too much about it then.

Cheers all,
NP.

 

[Old Boar]

Japanese Knotweed would be huge at this time of the year - 5ft plus and not really in flower yet. The flowers are a bit like a very loose buddleia, foot long little tiny whitish flowers, growing horizontally. It was brought here for its late flowers!

 

[AGN76]

Any idea what plant this is? (I know what it looks like! )

 

[Exfarmer]

Woad ?

 

[ollie989898]

Horserail, hit it with 2,4D and solar plus. It also dislikes forefront.

 

[Bogweevil]

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Any idea what plant this is? (I know what it looks like! )

Teasil: https://www.rhs.org.uk/Plants/5959/i-Dipsacus-fullonum-i/Details

 

[Old Tip]

Looks me @Bogweevil i think it’s teasil

https://goo.gl/images/YBmErk

 

[AGN76]

Thanks looks like teasel and now I remember we had Bullfinch feeding on seed head last winter

 

[Brisel]

Teasel. Quite a good winter seed plant for birds.