"Billy" wrote in message
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Do you mean Stinking Billy?

It has all sorts of common and local names, I suspect since one I know is
Stinking Willy I expect yours is the same. It's also known as Stinkweed - it
doesn't really smell pleasant so that part's true :-)

It has very pretty, small, flowers with almost metallic yellow petals. If a
volunteer grows in my garden I leave it until it finishes flowering.

When I had honeybees I was afraid that its nectar might taint the honey,
because that's what I'd been taught. After harvesting honey from hives with
masses of ragwort in the next field I realised that it was yet another
beekeeping myth. As is the one about privet flowers tainting honey.

Mary