What is this weed?

[glosterwomble]

Can anyone identify this 'weed'. A friend of mine brought it to me thinking I could tell her what it is and whilst it is familiar to me I have no idea what it is.
???

(Sorry for quality of pic, I had to scan it and my scanner is doing this weird yellow background!!)

[glosterwomble]

[Barnowl]

Bindweed?

[springbok]

Im no expert, but it looks like a bean leaf to me

[springbok]

Bindweed?

I think your right barnowl, coz they look like heart shaped leaves, just the way they are in the pic :D

[Suzanne]

Could it be Arum (Lords and Ladies, Cuckoopint). I don't think this flowers yet but its leaves look very much like your photo.

[glosterwomble]

thank you all, the leaves don't show very well on the scan so it does look a bit bindweed like which is what the friend had thought, having had to contend with bindweed in a previous garden I knew it wasn't that.

It is Lords and Ladies (Arum Maculatem) I've trawled google now thankyou  Suzanne, I said to her that it looked a bit Lily like so there we are!  :)

[saddad]

and it's still too cold for such big leaves on bindweed...
:o

[Barnowl]

Lucky I put in a question Mark :)

[Baaaaaaaa]

Can you give us some sort of scale.

How big are the leaves?
How many leaves on the plant?
Do the leaves form a rosette on the ground, or is there a stalk with the leaves comming off ?

[ACE]

Arum