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This seems to have taken over two of my borders.

What's the best way of getting rid of it? Do I need to dig up
the
whole
root?

I'm knackered already and I've barely done a small patch of it!

What is Hawk's beard?

Crepis.

A genus of dandelion look-alikes.

Thanks, Kay. The popular name does not occur in any of my six books
on wild flowers. It is a strongly localised name?

I don't think so. It's in Fitter, Fitter and Blamey, also in Stace,
which is the standard flora for the British Isles.

If you are interested in wild flowers enough to have 6 books, then I'd
very much recommend wild Flowers of Britain and Northern Europe, Fitter,
Fitter and Blamey, pub Collins. Comprehensive, excellent illustrations.
£14.99 but a lot cheaper through Amazon. Or earlier editions second
hand. Or for £2 more you can get the larger sized Wild Flowers of
Britain and Ireland by the same combination of authors in a different
permutation which also has distribution maps - very handy to aid
identification if you're looking at a whole page of white crucifers, for
example ;-)

It seems a sad fact of flower spotting that whatever you're looking at
is always the one and only common species on the page ;-)
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm