Need help identifying these shoots please!

Hello,

Hoping for some advice.
I noticed these shoots emerging from the grass this week. Seem quite fast growing and in multiple little clusters around the front lawn. It’s making me very nervous as I can’t ID it and I don’t want anything to mess with my front border. I also feed the birds so unsure if a bird has dropped some seed into my garden and that how’s it’s ended up here - as I certainly didn’t plant it .

Please see attached photos and thanks you for any help. Advice on how to remove would be fab!

 

They look a bit like Hosta shoots but very unusual for them to grow like that in a lawn.

 

Its something established and unlikely to be seed dropped by birds.

 

Dactylorrhiza?

 

Yes, you’re right. Thanks for the reply. I haven’t planted anything that even resembles it and it’s spreading to each corner of the lawn, it’s came from somewhere else, not me . Just hope it’s nothing to worry about. It’s never ending being a gardener!

 

I did think that and had someone else mention hosta. I have two hostas nearby but have never divided them and very unusual for them to self seed in grass . I’ve noticed there 3 other clumps of shoots in each corner of the front garden and I don’t think it’ll be 4 miracle hostas I’m bamboozled.

 

I don't think they are hosta shoots, mine are just coming through and they are a dark purple, thick spikey looking shoot.

Your shoots remind me more of Arum maculatum (Lords and Ladies). This year in particular it seems to be growing all over the nearby woods, verges and some in my garden. It has very poisonous bright red berries (if eaten) in spikes later in the year.

The only thing that puzzles me is that you've got it in all the corners of the lawn which suggests more like something deliberately planted.

 

Just let it grow leaves and then it will be easier to ID.

 

It's not lords and ladies, the wild Arum, because I have loads of the pestiferous stuff. It is a darker very plain green, less chunky shoots, and a lot further ahead in growth. I don't know about other arum species. I would guess your mystery plants got mown down unnoticed last year and spent the rest of the year bulking up ready to try again. I suggest leaving one clump unmown and take another photo, as Pete suggests, when they are a bit bigger!

 

It reminds me of Cypripedium...but that is not common and would have had to be planted.

Martagon lily is another idea...pic below

Do add more pics as the leaves grow ....with this warm weather it will be fast growing.

 

It reminds me of the shoots of crown imperial fritillaries, but I think it's too late to be those (they'd be just about flowering by now) and in any case they'd have to be deliberately planted, they don't just appear at that size. Same with any kind of lily, which they also resemble.

How long have you been at the property (thinking maybe it's something that's been dormant, if you haven't been there a full year yet), and have you brought in any topsoil? If not, maybe have a squint over the fences and see whether any of the neighbours have it. It looks too well-established to be a recent gift from the birds (ie from dropped seeds).

Maybe dig up one of the clumps and see what sort of roots/tubers/bulbs etc it has underground.

 

Oh please don't ..just incase it is something fab.
Just wait and add more pics to this threads.

Greengal..welcome to the forums!
Where do you live..are you in UK ?