Solved ID please - Red Valerian (Centranthus ruber)

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    Can anyone tell me what this is please?

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    Looks like Red Valerian to me.. Centranthus ruber.. All over the place and in walls around our village..
     
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      A quick google suggests you are bang on going by the way the leaves wrap around the stem; I spotted it growing wild near Heathrow yesterday, and don't think I have seen it before. Pretty wee thing.

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