"Pickle" wrote in message
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Just looked through my wildflower book...
Think it might be something called Redshank (Persicaria maculosa)
A weed, but not an unattractive one

Before this all gets too confusing, I'll add that Persicaria maculosa is
another name for Polygonum persicaria, so this ID is the same as the other
one given in this thread (although the common name here is also different to
the ones given, just to make things even more complicated