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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.

I'll have to have another look later in the year, and see what it looks
like then. But if you look at the photograph, it appears to be growing
in the edge of a path, rather than the grass verge.

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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Stewart Robert Hinsley