QuestionsHow to growTrees and ShrubsTypes and UsesTall weed identification 0 Vote Up Vote Down brian cooke asked 9 years ago Can you identify the attached please ?. I am worried it is Japanese hogweed. 1 Answers 0 Vote Up Vote Down Gerry Daly Staff answered 6 years ago The plant is: pheasant berry, or Leycesteria formosa. From Asia, but appears here and there as a garden escape, the seeds carried by birds.