What is this bush/tree/plant?

[Calamity1971]

My mistake gentlegreen they are growing up through brambles I will go and take a better photo as the leaves are barely visible..

 

[Calamity1971]

There you go gentlegreen, and anyone else who might know what it is?

 

[gentlegreen]

Anyone know what this wildflower is, I thought maybe fleabane or yellow oxeye daisy.Cconsulted all my wildflower books but can't find it. quite distinctive heart shaped leaves surrounding the stem. Or maybe a recent garden escapee?

I confess all I tried to do is google the image along with the leaf-form and indeed kept coming up with fleabane ...

I think the leaves are "clasping" the stems - as well as "cordate" ...

 

[bi0boy]

Leopard's bane I think

The key word is amplexicaul

 

[gentlegreen]

Blimey - that's one variant I didn't encounter .. perfiolate, auriculate, cordate ...
This is why I doubt I will ever be fully happy eating wild fungi ...

 

[Calamity1971]

Cheers bi0boy that is definately it. Nevermind gentlegreen at least we were both half right with the bane part.

 

[bi0boy]

I wonder if it was actually used to poison leopards.

 

[Calamity1971]

More alarmingly is womens bane if thats the case

 

[gentlegreen]

Aconite ?
Delphiniums with knobs on.
The buttercup family is so annoying - only one part of one species is edible - and even that is a bit borderline ...

 

[two sheds]

(((mexican fleas*)))

*as I've learned from here

 

[gentlegreen]

Just noticed this in a flowerbed at work :-





Clearly it will be much easier once the flowers open, but ...

 

[gentlegreen]

Still no flowers.
Square stem so I'm thinking some kind of salvia, but most of those seem to have much more spiky flower heads ...

 

[Callie]

Did you post a picture of it in flower before? Lobelia?

 

[gentlegreen]

It did cross my mind, but this one is in a different place... and the unopened flower spikes seem much more branched and carried clear of the foliage ... and the foliage is less sage-like.

What is this bush/tree/plant?

EDIT :-

square stems though .... but they've now stuck lobelia in the campanulaceae ..

 

[campanula]

I am coming out for marjoram - origanum laevigata - something like 'Hopleys' or Herrenhausen''?...but almost definitely in the labiatae or subsection lamlidae

 

[gentlegreen]

I should have put in something to show the scale
These are fairly hefty plants.

And the leaves aren't aromatic.

 

[campanula]

Mmm, might be one of the salvias such as involucrata. There has been a slew of these taller herbaceous salvias such as Wendy's Wish, Mulberry Jam coming into commerce recently (which also lack the aromatic leaves of s.elegans and the like. I tend to only grow the shrubby greggiis, microphyllas, jamensis myself - my sandy soil is not great for s.guaranitica et al. Will have a look in my Betsy Klebb.

 

[campanula]

Is this a chosen perennial...or a volunteer/weed? I have numerous labiataes in the wood - hemp deadnettle, betony, stachys sylvestris (which looks most similar to this), teucrium, scutellaria.

 

[gentlegreen]

It's in a herbaceous border where I work.
I'm surprised I didn't notice it last year - it must be very quick to establish.
It's the branching nature of the flower spikes that I find confusing.

 

[campanula]

This branching is a recognisable characteristic of plants in the mint family (labiataes) and is very noticeable with salvias such as s.pratensis or s.sylvestris, gentlegreen. The flowers growing in a loose whorl, rather than a spike or raceme is what is throwing me a bit. Do post as soon as a bloom opens.
Have a look at the phlomis family (aka jerusalem sage) - particularly the purples such as phlomis tuberosa or p.cashmeriana

 

[gentlegreen]

It's not in a great hurry this plant ...



Scrophulariaceae

? - figwort ?

 

[two sheds]

thyme


easy one that

 

[gentlegreen]

Sadly long past identifying accurately, let alone eating, but you can bet that next year I will be waiting for these boletuses which have sprung up around the base of an ornamental tree at work. I will go back later and get a photo of the tree - it may help with deciding if this is anywhere close to a cep ... a broken one smelled pleasantly mushroomy. These must have been growing right under my nose for years ..

 

[gentlegreen]

Pretty sure it's some sort of birch they're growing under ... so next year I may harvest one of those mushrooms ... though I will feel guilty ...



EDIT:- alder ?

 

[gentlegreen]

To confirm the figwort identification, it's being eaten by figwort weevil larvae.



Cionus scrophulariae larvae - Google Search

 

[campanula]

hornbeam - carpinus

 

[gentlegreen]

ironically I think I photographed an alder yesterday - growing in a crack on a bridge over the river ... (??)

 

[izz]

Hello everyone, this is my first wanderings into this thread, not being in any way a gardener, so please excuse my ignorance.

Can anyone tell me what this is ? Apart from 'a notepad' which I used for ease of seeing

I know its a weed and that is about it

 

[two sheds]

I think it's binderweed

 

[gentlegreen]

Virginia creeper - it eats houses !

Bees love it.

It's related to the grape, but the fruits are teeny.