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Old 27-05-2010, 11:25 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Jeff Layman[_2_] Jeff Layman[_2_] is offline
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"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message
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Seen growing in a street, and presumably a garden escape.

http://www.stewart.hinsley.me.uk/Images/IMG_3000.JPG

Not Saxifraga (cordate rather cuneate leaves), nor either of the pennywort
genera (leaves not peltate), nor Pyrola (leaf venation palmate rather than
pinnate). It doesn't seem a bad match for Homogyne alpina, but that's
restricted in the wild to Caenlochan NNR in Angus (if still present; the
BSBI don't have it as being recorded this century), with a presumably
casual record in Northamptonshire, and it's rarely if all cultivated (last
seen in Plant Finder in 1997).

Anyone recognise it.


Could it be a young Eryngium variifolium? Although it seems a bit large to
not have some at least some spiky leaves.

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Jeff