Unidentified Plant in my garden.?
It hasn't flowered yet, but the inflorescence is a dense raceme.
The plant is very unusual in appearance. It is herbaceous, with no woody growth, but it has shot up to about 8 feet tall in just this Spring. The stalk is thick. The leaves are very large (10") on long stalks, lobed with an oak-like shape. All leaves are on the stem, none are basal. The whole plant is blue-green (although this may be a powdery bloom), the undersides of the leaves are white-wooly.
(It is not a large angelica or cow parsnip. The whole plant is almost blue in color.)
Thanks for the help folks. I finally found out what it is! It's Macleaya microcarpa, the Plume Poppy.
The Wild Lettuce answer was not far off - same family I think. And Burdock, I suppose can get that tall, but it's not exactly blueish. Also, this has only stem leaves, no basal leaves, while burdock is all basal leaves. Thanks everyone!
inflorescence best answer: Answer by Kacky
Hard to tell without a picture, but it could be some kind of thistle
inflorescence
Black pepper inflorescences
Piper nigrum (Piperaceae); Lamanai, Belize
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