I purchased this plant a few years ago. It grows to about 4ft in a very shady corner of my yard. My lawn maintenance crew lopped its head off the other day as it was just beginning to grow. They thought it looked like an 'undesirable.' I am beginning to wonder myself... any thought on what this plant is?
Next you can lop their heads off. I once had a lawn worker insert a weedeater between sticks I had put around a rare pine to protect it from lawn workers with weedeaters, eating the bark off and killing it. Do not let mower jockeys decide what you do with your garden.