Still trying to find out

I tried to identify this plant late last summer and had various suggestions. A lot of them were different varieties of cow parsley type plants. I checked all of the suggestions on the web and in books and couldn't find a close enough match. We bought two of these plants in a nursery three years ago and have lost the label. They don't seem to propogate themselves like most cow parsley does. We haven't seen any seedlings at all but the plants grow very well.

This is the plant at the moment.




and how it looked late last June. It is the plant in the foreground. It grew to a height of about 6ft





Can anyone help with identification? :confused:

 

Hi Claire 75

Thanks, I know the one you give a link to looks similar but it isn't the same. Ours has a more compact flower head and the leaves are not trefoil. The one you show also says that it is rampant and although ours grows strongly it doesn't spread. I shall check out other Aegopodium.

Thanks

 

I've just searched the Aegopodium family and can't find it there.

 

Someone has said it is Verbena Patagonias but I don't think it is that either. :eek:

 

Thanks JarBax

The flower certainly looks similar but the leaves on all the pictures I can find are much slimmer than our plants.

I'll post more photos as it grows.

 

Palustris, I haven't checked angelica but we used to grow it and I don't remember it being the same.

Thanks

 

We have Valeriana in flower but only the pink/purple variety. The plant I'm trying to identify has a much flatter type flower and is white with a hint of pink. I don't remember any smell - but I don't remember trying to smell it .

When it flowers I'll have a sniff.

Thanks

 

Hi Liz
I've looked up more references to Lovage and some of them have leaves that look similar. I'll have to taste the leaves of my plants. If I'm not back on GC for a long time you can assume they were poisonous