We have a few flower beds in the house we bought, and about half of one of them has a thick growth of these plants, already getting quite tall, I thought it was clover at first but now they are easily about 2 ft tall. I’m from Denmark
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It’s something in the rose family. Maybe it was bred for no to low thorns. The stalks are wrong for clover. It’s huge and in a flower bed, just assume it’s a garden plant!
Don’t start pulling out plantings until the end of the season. In the meantime weed what you know: grass, dandelions, native weeds.
Its alfalfa.
Could be a winter cover crop that is intended to be turned over into the soil to improve the soil
Definitely some kind of clover relative in the Fabaceae like *Medicago*. Not very familiar with Danish flora though.
Certainly not anything in the Rosaceae as someone else suggested…
*Medicago spp.* or related Fabaceae. Probably not the cultivated kind of alfalfa.
There are a load of different types of clover – Red, Hungarian, Crimson, and Persian are all taller versions iirc
Definitely looks like something added for the soil, pollinators, or both!
I think this is more likely *Melilotus* than alfalfa
Looks like my crimson clover, and it got almost 3ft tall in some places. It adds nitrogen back to the soil so it could be used as just a cover crop as someone said.
Clover, very good plant for soil and honey bees, most likely grown by previous owner. No need to remove unless you absolutely have to.