What exactly is this?

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  1. Fat Controller

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    I haven't seen a dandelion this big, but then is it actually a dandelion (tall one in the middle)?

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    It shall be gone by this time tomorrow hopefully, but I am a curious sort...
     
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    Its not a dandelion. I don't know what its called though. There's loads round here. They grow out of cracks in brickwork.
     
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    The flowers on the top look like dandelion flowers if it helps, yet the leaves are quite big (and have silver trails all over them, which I think are leaf miner signs?)

    I will try and get a closer pic tomorrow before I cull it.
     
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    It looks like sow-thistle...sorry, don't know the Latin name!
     
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    AKA Hen Food
     
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      Dow Thistle, a favourite of my tortoises!
       
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      I forgot to take closer pics before oiking it out, but it is now gone - a quick google reveals that it is indeed a sow thistle :) - vigorous blighters apparently!
       
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