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Weed identification help

Hello all,
Don't know if this is the right forum but here goes anyway.
We moved into our new flat last November which had a new lawn laid. This month, some weeds have sprung up in the grass and are covering a lot of it. Google hasn't really identified it and worried it might be Japanese Knotweed. Google pics don't look exactly the same. Does anyone have any idea what this could be, fairly worried about this!

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  • Dustyevsky
    Dustyevsky Posts: 2,765 Forumite
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    Relax, it's not knotweed. :)
    It's either Coltsfoot or Butterbur. A nuisance but not a mortgage deal breaker!
    "Outrage is the cheapest lever you can pull in a human being." Chase Hughes
  • elsien
    elsien Posts: 36,596 Forumite
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    Yep, definitely nothing like knotweed. Panic not. 
    All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well.

    Pedant alert - it's could have, not could of.
  • Farway
    Farway Posts: 14,941 Forumite
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    As above, plus, once you get mowing it will not be a problem.

    Numerus non sum
  • -taff
    -taff Posts: 15,433 Forumite
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    knotweed comes up as poky looking shoots first anyway, not leaves like that.For future reference 


    And relax....

    Non me fac calcitrare tuum culi
  • Thanks all, we have a which identifies it as butterbur. What a relief!
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