
Giant hogweed growing in Dorset – July 2021.
How to recognise giant hogweed

Where do you find giant hogweed?
The law and giant hogweed
Should plants be destroyed because of ‘scaremongering’?
Two of the UK’s most hated plants UK growing together…
Young giant hogweed plants (middle and left) and Japanese knotweed (middle and right) – growing together in Dorset. Two of the most hated plants in the UK!

A young giant hogweed plant growing in Dorset. Note the purplish-mottling on the stem.