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kay · 12-04-2012, 12:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Christina Websell

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Christina Websell;955229 Wrote:
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David56802;954695 Wrote:-
Any ideas?

The first I saw growing wild - the second and third are in a garden.

Thanks in advance.-

1) wallflower
2) The yellow flower and the water-lily-shaped leaves are lesser
celandine, an invasive uk native, the rosettes are probably London
Pride, a saxifrage which will later have pink-stalked loose spikes of
small white flowers.
3) Snow-in-Summer, which will in due course have a glorious burst of
being smothered in white flowers.
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I think your London Pride ID is a sedum.

You mean one of those rather flat leaved ones? Not fleshy enough for the
stone-crop type of sedum.

But the leaf shape and venation is very similar to other non-fleshy
saxifrages, and is a good match for the leaves in the link posted by
Dave Hill.

I meant this one:
BBC - Gardening: Plant Finder - Sedum

Definitely not. Leaves wrong colour (green rather than grey), and far too small - you have the celandine flowers for comparison. I thought you meant something like Sedum spurium, but thinking about it, the reason I'm sure it's not, is that the sedum loses its leaves at a greater rate, so it tends to have bare stems with a tuft of leaves at the end, rather than the well clothed stems of the saxifrage.