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Old 11-04-2010, 08:29 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Dave Poole Dave Poole is offline
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Default Name my weed

Sacha wrote:

There's Lesser and Greater Celandine, IIRC, so maybe that makes a difference.


With the lesser being a member of the buttercup family, while the
greater is in the poppy family and therefore entirely unrelated.
'Common names' are misleading and cause so much confusion, they should
all be banned ;-)