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Name the plants (or are they weeds?)
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Posted by hammerl z5-6 Amherst NY (My Page) on Mon, Aug 7, 06 at 9:57
| Need help. Have 2 plants. One came from a very weedy yard of a friend after she'd bought the house from an ardent gardener who had to move, the other I don't know if I planted or it's just a weed up from seed.
Plant 1 is a periwinkle color, very pale bluish. It bloomed in early July. It had flowers that were maybe 3" across with a wide center and narrow petals similar to a gerber daisy. I think its stems and leaves are rather hairy. The buds put me in mind of strawflower. It's definitely not cornflower. It's not quite a foot tall. It gets a good deal of sun. It's not knapweed, nor is it all that pink. It's not cupid's dart.
Plant 2 is blooming now. It has a graduated spike with a deep bluish color flower up and down the stem that puts me in mind of a bell flower if it took up with a fan flower. It just started blooming. It's about 15" or so tall, and is in part sun. I think it has pointed ovoid leaves. It looks a little weedy, but then again I've said that about other plants I have (take the sea holly, for instance).
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Follow-Up Postings:
RE: Name the plants (or are they weeds?)
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- Posted by von1 z4 NY (My Page) on
Mon, Aug 7, 06 at 19:17
| I'm guessing #1 is chicory-weed-used as coffee substitute #2 might be a pentseman-perennial |
RE: Name the plants (or are they weeds?)
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| Plant #1: could it be Stokesia? Plant #2: I don't know what a "fan flower" is, but if by "bell flower" you mean Campanula persicifolia, then I'd guess you might have what they call Balloon Flower? (Platycodon) |
RE: Name the plants (or are they weeds?)
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- Posted by hammerl z5-6 Amherst NY (My Page) on
Tue, Aug 8, 06 at 10:02
| Stokesia is definitely plant number one, probably blue danube variety. Thank you. http://www.californiagardens.com/Plant_Pages/stokesia.htm I also identified plant two on my own -- Lobelia siphilitica
(great blue lobelia, a wildflower)
http://www.nps.gov/plants/pubs/chesapeake/plant/1335.htm |
RE: Name the plants (or are they weeds?)
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| I love my great blue lobelias and they will reseed like crazy. Penny |
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