"Stewart Robert Hinsley" wrote in message
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In message , Jeff Layman
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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.

On the one hand, the white veining of the leaves is a match. On the other
hand I saw the same taxon (and I think the same plant) in the same place
last year. Is it hardy enough to have come through the last winter?

DavesGarden has its hardiness listed as US Zones 4a to 8b!!! The RHS
reckons it's "fully hardy". My feeling is that given reasonably good
drainage it should have survived last winter. What's the soil like where
you found it? With its "velcro" seeds, it would not be difficult for a
wandering animal to pick one of its seeds up in a garden and drop that seed
where you found it.

It was a plant around quite a bit a few years ago, and stocked by many
garden centres, but I don't remember seeing it much recently.

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Jeff