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Leadplant mystery
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Posted by heleninramsey 4 (My Page) on Fri, Oct 12, 07 at 0:16
| Our Prairie (oak savanna) area is 5 years old this summer. One of the plants that we originally put in, as plugs, was leadplant. I do not know anything other than that. The plant that we have resembles leadplant in every way except flower color. Instead of blue purple flower spikes, we have ugly, yellow-green-whitish flowers, form follows the amorpha canescens or fruticosa but the color is way off. I have searched the net to find our white flowered variety but come up empty handed. Any ideas? or do I have a completely different plant with lead plant foliage and form?
Thanks, Helen. |
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RE: Leadplant mystery
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| I'm not familiar with leadplant specifically but it is possible for plants to have mutations and produce atypical flowers colors. Some people like to plant seeds for this reason - just to see what unusual and unique things they can get. Then again it could be another plant. Do you have any pictures? FataMorgana |
RE: Leadplant mystery
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| Its hard to really say without seeing a picture. Though soil, light and moisture conditions will all play a role in flower color. And if you are looking in a book, the printed color is often quite different from reality. |
RE: Leadplant mystery
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| I will have to post a picture come spring when it flowers again...the flower color is consistant throughout the prairie area and it is really so far off any description or picture I have seen that I don't think that it's a print issue, but it may very well be another plant with similar folliage. Thanks for the input and I will post again in the spring...Helen. |
RE: Leadplant mystery
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| I feel silly suggesting this, but sometimes we miss the obvious. It isn't wood betony by any chance, is it? |
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