Solved Please can someone identify this?

Hello,

I have quite a lot of this growing in my garden and wondered if someone would be kind enough to identify it for me?

Thank you!

 

Welcome to the forum AdamM.

Big white umbelifers flowers are hard to id from pics.

Going by the leaflets I would say that it may be Heraculeum spondylium...common name hogweed.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/Heracleum_sphondylium_blad.jpg

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=H...ChMIyd2XuNiMxwIVSpENCh35zwsc&biw=1536&bih=728

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Heracleum_sphondylium

 

Not to be confused with the nasty and illegal Giant Hogweed, but it can give the same sort of reaction as that, if you are susceptible. Called Hogweed as the young shoots were fed to pigs at one time.

 

Thank you for your replies. Yes, I have heard about the Giant Hogweed.

If I cover myself up and dig them up from the root, will that get rid of them effectively? I ask, as I want to avoid using chemicals.

 

The roots go down a long way, but it is possible to dig them out. You may find they come back as the seed will be in the soil and it is a persistent grower. Any bit of root left will regrow.

 

IMO it could be cow parsnip. The Giant Hogweed has purple speckles on the stem, are less hairy than than cow parsnip, which are usually only green stemmed.

Whatever it is, take great caution to keep if away from naked skin... just to be on the safe side.

 

Think you have misread answers above by myself and Palustris.

Heraculeum spondylium..common name Cow parsnip or hogweed...which is why common names can lead to confusion!

(Giant hogweed or Heracleum mantegazzianum is very different.)

 

I understand where you're coming from but people are being educated in the media about giant Giant Hogweed in view of increasing injuries/burns associated with it.

Heracleum mantegazzianum is indeed the Latin name not it is not widely associated with the plant itself. I was trying to point out the differences in an easier way to identify to a layman.

Many people have wild/dog violets growing in their gardens and want rid of them but would they know or care to know what the Latin name is (Viola riviniana).

Giant hogweed is a nightmare and it's Latin name is pretty much irrelevant to all but those who are buffs and refer to plants by their Latin name only.

 

With all due respect, I have no idea what cow parsnip is due to that being a local name not used around here so a latin name is far more useful

 

Sorry Mowerman.
I did not mean to cause any trouble or offence.

I was merely trying to say that in your post above you were actually agreeing with myself and Palustris..... and that Cow parsnip is just another name for hogweed.

In all my answers I try to give the Latin name and often the common name as well.
Different areas/different countries usually have local names for plants.....
which could maybe/occasionally/ lead to confusion.
I also usually attach links to pics/wiki/learned accurate sites, so that posters can decide if the plant suggested is their plant.
As my first answer above.

 

Just to illustrate your point, @Silver surfer, where I grew up, we called this cow parsley.
(Sticky) vetch was known to me as "goose grass" until I left home - very different to what they called goose grass in the next county! (Apologies as I don't know the Latin name for either the self-clinging climber, which covers every long-haired dogs with burrs, or the actual grass!)
Hubby threatens me occasionally with itchy-backs....



....





Which is .....






Rose hips!

The Latin name, and a photo link, is very helpful, although knowing different areas' common names is fascinating too.

 

And an awful lot of plants were given fancy names by the Romantic Poets set in Victorian times

 

Sorry @ Silver surfer, you were right to quote the Latin names, I just got rather defensive about what seemed like being pulled up when I was only trying to help with an identification.

No offense taken here and I hope you weren't offended by the sharpness of my reply. Had a bad day yesterday, nothing to eat and a got dragged into having a few beers at the local, which isn't a great combination before coming on here to post.

 

Thanks Sian in Belgium...this was exactly the point I was trying to make.
Cow parsley is another plant ...completely different....it is Anthriscus sylvestris.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=anthriscus+sylvestris&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAWoVChMIuaHNyc-bxwIV7AfbCh3QCwZD&biw=1536&bih=728

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthriscus_sylvestris

 

Thanks Mowerman. Your reply is appreciated.
I really hate to think I have caused any unpleasantness on any forum.

Incidentally your advice on stem colour re Giant hogweed was good.