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Produce => Wildlife forum => Topic started by: Digeroo on September 21, 2009, 18:43:50

Title: Weed Identification Please
Post by: Digeroo on September 21, 2009, 18:43:50
Please can anyone identify this weed?  Is is a type of dandelion?

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Title: Re: Weed Identification Please
Post by: ceres on September 21, 2009, 18:58:07
Shepherd's Purse?

http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/shepherdprse.htm (http://www.dgsgardening.btinternet.co.uk/shepherdprse.htm)
Title: Re: Weed Identification Please
Post by: Digeroo on September 21, 2009, 19:10:38
Some of the images on google look similar to shepherds purse, but I do not think it is a brassica.  Root wrong shape/texture has a succulent root.
Title: Re: Weed Identification Please
Post by: Rhubarb Thrasher on September 21, 2009, 19:25:11
looks a bit like  a chicory
Title: Re: Weed Identification Please
Post by: Digeroo on September 21, 2009, 20:23:33
Like the thought it is chicory.  Perhaps we will have to leave some to flower. 

I nibbled a bit - quite tasty.  Looks like I will not die afterall.
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