Plant or Weed?

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  1. alnham

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    I would say the 2 pics are a Buttercup and some sort of Geranium............

    A wild guess:o
     
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    first one is buttercup and i think as i have said before that the second one is hogweed...
     
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    Don't know much about Hogweed but get rid of the Buttercup sharpish.
     
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    well normal hogweed is a just a large weed which can cause slight irritation to the skin but giant hogweed is rather dangerous as it's sap is photoallergenic which means if you get it on you skin on a sunny day it can cause servere blistering and sometimes permanent scaring...but i'm still not sure that plant is hogweed :D but either way it's a weed
     
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    yep looks like hogweed to me to :)
     
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    Yay 1+ up 4 me:D
     
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    Hog weed leaves grow on a thicker shorter stem, Its certainly hog weed family but more like cows parsley or similar.
     
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    the first with a yellow flower looks like creeping buttercup. Remove it immediately as it spreads like wildfire!!
     
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    erm...isn't this cow parsley? i think it looks completely different :/ and there are many different species of Hogweed
     
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    Perhaps it is hogweed although catergoricly not giant, anyroad its certainly a weed so dig it up.

    Mind you get out all the root though as cow parsley and indeed hogweeed family have long fiberouse roots not unlike those of a dock.
     
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